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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. Doktè. Ordway arrives
Wouj siy lan (1945) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler te fè onz fim pou ventyèm syèk Fox anvan ou deplase seri a monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. Nan sa a fim, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan nan Pari (1935) se yon lòt antre nan seri a kòmanse Warner Oland kòm Charlie Chan. Charlie se retounen nan ankèt London l ', lè li kanpe nan Pari pou yon vakans. Aktyèlman, vakans lan se yon kouvèti pou envestigasyon li nan lyezon fòje nan Lamartine Bank la. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi
Sherlock Holmes ak Zam la sekrè (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 fè yon aparans kòm Dr. Moriart This movie is set during the early years of World War II, when Holmes sneaks a scientist out of
RKO Pictures te fè Dick Tracy komik karaktè nan teren nan ekran an gwo sou Desanm 1, 1945. Pandan ke fim nan se definitivman yon “B” fim vle di ke yo dwe premye sou bòdwo an doub, li toujou ta gen nan enterè fanatik yo anpil nan teren an popilè komik. Chester Gould created the strip in October 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 te ale nan yon montre chen ak Coe ak li
Charlie Chan nan Panama (1940) zetwal Sidney Toler kòm Enspektè Charlie Chan. Nan sa a fim, Enspektè Chan se sou santye an nan espyon la Riner. Riner gen entansyon pote soti nan yon zak sabotaj, lè flòt Ameriken an pase nan kannal la. Enspektè Chan fè eksperyans yon sitiyasyon etranj, when he is arrested for the death of an American agent in