Harcsporttörténész és harcművész
Post about classic films and films related to combat sports and history.
Szeptember 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). A film (affiliate link) Alvin C őrmester történetét meséli el. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. A film a vasárnapi istentisztelet és a
Sherlock Holmes szembenéz a halállal (1943) lazán alapul a kaland a Musgrave Ritual. A novella megjelent The Strand Magazine májusban 1893. Később össze a The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. A történet, A Musgrave Mansion tartott titkos, hogy még ez lakosok nem tudták. 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 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
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) az ötödik a tizenegy Charlie Chan film közül, a Monogram Pictures azt követően készült, hogy a Twentieth-Century Fox lemondta a sorozatot 1942. Sidney Toler készült tizenegy filmek Twentieth-Century Fox, mielőtt a sorozat Monogram. Miután Toler meghalt 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. Ebben a filmben, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan Párizsban (1935) egy másik bejegyzést a sorozat főszereplője Warner Oland mint Charlie Chan. Charlie visszatér az ő londoni vizsgálat, amikor megáll Párizsban a nyaralás. Tulajdonképpen, 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