Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
Post about classic films and films related to combat sports and history.
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Le film (affiliate link) raconte l'histoire du sergent Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. Le film commence par le contraste entre un service religieux dominical et le
Sherlock Holmes affronte la mort (1943) est vaguement basé sur l'aventure du rituel de Musgrave. La courte histoire a été publiée dans The Strand Magazine en mai 1893. Il a ensuite été compilé dans Les Mémoires de Sherlock Holmes. Dans l'histoire, Musgrave Mansion a tenu un secret que même ses habitants ne savaient pas. This film follows the same plot line
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Dick Tracy contre le gang (1947) est la dernière entrée “B” série de films. RKO Pictures a pris le relais de la série Republic Pictures, qui a sorti les feuilletons Dick Tracy origine à la fin des années 1930 et au début des années 1940. RKO Pictures sorti le film en salles le Septembre 26, 1947. RKO apporté Boris Karloff à jouer Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Lorsque Twentieth Century-Fox a décidé d'abandonner la série Charlie Chan après le château dans le désert (1942), Sidney Toler a acheté les droits de la série et qu'il a fallu pour Monogram Pictures. Après avoir fait 11 des films avec Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler ferait 11 Films Charlie Chan avec 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. Après avoir menacé plusieurs
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
Marvel Studios released the series Iron Fist on Netflix on March 17, 2017. The series based on the Marvel comic about Danny Rand, a young man presumed to have died in a plane crash. Rand is rescued as a child by monks, who teach him martial arts in the Himalayas. The series contains a number of great martial arts fight scenes.
The Scarlet Clue (1945) est le cinquième des onze films de Charlie Chan produits par Monogram Pictures après que Twentieth-Century Fox a annulé la série en 1942. Sidney Toler made eleven films for Twentieth-Century Fox before moving the series to Monogram. Après la mort de Toler en 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. Dans ce film, L'inspecteur Charlie Chan découvre un
Charlie Chan à Paris (1935) est une autre entrée dans la série avec Warner Oland comme Charlie Chan. Charlie revient de son enquête Londres, quand il s'arrête à Paris pour les vacances. Actually, 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