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Em setembro de 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). O filme (link de afiliado) tells the story of Sergeant 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. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the
Sherlock Holmes enfrenta a morte (1943) é vagamente baseado em A Aventura da Musgrave Ritual. O conto foi publicado em The Strand Magazine em maio 1893. Mais tarde, foi compilado em As Memórias de Sherlock Holmes. Na história, o Musgrave Mansion realizou um segredo que até mesmo seus habitantes não sabiam. 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) estrelando
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) é a entrada definitiva em “B” série de filmes. RKO Pictures levou a série ao longo da Republic Pictures, que lançou as séries Dick Tracy originais no final de 1930 e início dos anos 1940. RKO Pictures lançou o filme aos cinemas em setembro 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Quando Twentieth Century-Fox decidiu abandonar a série Charlie Chan após Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler comprou os direitos para a série e levou-a para Monogram Pictures. Depois de fazer 11 filmes Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler faria 11 Filmes Charlie Chan com 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. Depois de ameaçar vários
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) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler fez onze filmes para Twentieth-Century Fox antes de passar a série a Monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. Neste filme, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan em Paris (1935) é uma outra entrada na série estrelada por Warner Oland como Charlie Chan. Charlie está voltando de sua investigação Londres, quando ele pára em Paris, para um período de férias. Na realidade, 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