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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
Gdy Twentieth Century Fox podjęła decyzję o serię Charlie Chan po zamku na pustyni (1942), Sidney Toler zakupiło prawa do serii i wziął go do Monogram Pictures. Po dokonaniu 11 filmy z Twentieth Century Fox, Toler stałaby 11 Filmy Charlie Chan z 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
Scarlet Clue (1945) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler się jedenaście filmów dla Twentieth-Century Fox przed przejściem do serii Monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. W tym filmie, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan w Paryżu (1935) to kolejna pozycja w serii z udziałem Warner Oland jako Charlie Chan. Charlie wraca z jego dochodzenia w Londynie, gdy zatrzymuje się w Paryżu na wakacje. Faktycznie, 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 i tajna broń (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 sprawia, że wygląd jak Dr. Moriart This movie is set during the early years of World War II, when Holmes sneaks a scientist out of
RKO Pictures przyniósł Dick Tracy z komiksu na duży ekran grudnia 1, 1945. Choć film jest zdecydowanie “B” Film miał być pierwszym na podwójnym rachunku, to nadal byłoby interesujące dla wielu fanów popularnego komiksu. 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 attended a dog show with Coe and his
Charlie Chan w Panamie (1940) Tolerancja jako gwiazdek Sidney inspektor Charlie Chan. W tym filmie, Inspektor Chan jest na tropie szpiega Riner. Riner zamierza dokonać aktu sabotażu, gdy amerykańska flota przechodzi przez kanał. Inspektor Chan przeżywa niezwykłą sytuację, when he is arrested for the death of an American agent in