Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
When Twentieth Century-Fox decided to drop the Charlie Chan series after Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler purchased the rights to the series and took it to Monogram Pictures. After making 11 films with Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler would make 11 Charlie Chan films with Monogram Pictures. Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) was the ninth film that Toler made for Monogram
Monogram Pictures released Behind the Mask (1946), the second of three films based on the popular Shadow radio program, on May 25, 1946. “B” Film leading actor Kane Richmond returns as Lamont Cranston, the alter ego of the mysterious Shadow. The film begins by following the activities a blackmailing newspaper reporter Jeff Mann, played by James Cardwell. After threatening several
Warner Baxter returns for a fourth time as Dr. Robert Ordway in The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945). The newly married third wife of Gordon Carson asks Dr. Ordway to look into his first two wives’ mysterious deaths. Authorities declared both cases to be accidents. Kathleen Carson, played by Hillary Brooke, has begun to doubt the official verdict. Dr. Ordway arrives
The Scarlet Clue (1945) ist der fünfte von elf Charlie-Chan-Filmen, die Monogram Pictures produzierte, nachdem Twentieth-Century Fox die Serie im Jahr abgesetzt hatte 1942. Sidney Toler gemacht elf Filme für Twentieth-Century Fox, bevor die Serie Monogram. Nachdem Toler gestorben war 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. In diesem Film, Inspektor Charlie Chan entdeckt einen
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) is another entry in the series starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Charlie is returning from his London investigation, when he stops in Paris for a vacation. Tatsächlich, the vacation is a cover for his investigation of forged bonds from the Lamartine Bank. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi
Sherlock Holmes und das Geheimnis Waffe (1942) is the second of the Universal film versions of the stories and the fourth movie starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Lionell Atwill hat einen Auftritt als Dr.. Moriart This movie is set during the early years of World War II, when Holmes sneaks a scientist out of
RKO Pictures brachte den Dick Tracy Comic-Figur auf die große Leinwand am Dezember 1, 1945. Während der Film ist ein “B” Film soll zunächst auf die doppelte Rechnung sein, es wäre immer noch von Interesse für die vielen Fans der beliebten Comic gewesen sein. Chester Gould erstellt das Band im Oktober 1931 for the Detroit
William Powell’s fifth turn as S.S. Van Dine’s detective Philo Vance may have been his best. The Kennel Murder Case (1933) finds Philo Vance trying to solve the murder of Archer Coe. Coe had many enemies but the greatest mystery for Vance is how Coe was murdered in a locked room. Vance besuchte mit Coe und seinen Freunden eine Hundeausstellung
Charlie Chan in Panama (1940) Sterne Sidney Toler als Inspektor Charlie Chan. In diesem Film, Inspektor Chan ist auf der Spur des Spionage Riner. Riner durchführen will, ein Akt der Sabotage, wenn die amerikanische Flotte durch den Kanal gelangt. Inspektor Chan erlebt eine ungewöhnliche Situation, when he is arrested for the death of an American agent in