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Septembrie 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Filmul (affiliate link) spune povestea sergentului 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. Filmul începe cu contrastul dintre slujba bisericii de duminică și
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) se bazează vag pe aventura Musgrave Ritual. Nuvela a fost publicată în revista Strand în luna mai 1893. Mai târziu a fost compilat în Memoriile lui Sherlock Holmes. În povestea, Musgrave conacul a avut loc un secret că chiar e de locuitori nu știu. 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) joaca
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.
Scarlet Clue (1945) este al cincilea dintre unsprezece filme de Charlie Chan, Monogram Pictures produse după ce Twentieth-Century Fox a anulat seria în 1942. Sidney Toler făcut unsprezece filme pentru Twentieth-Century Fox înainte de a trece seria de Monogram. După ce Toler a murit în 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. În acest film, Inspectorul Charlie Chan descoperă o
Charlie Chan în Paris (1935) is another entry in the series starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Charlie se întoarce de la ancheta lui Londra, atunci când el se oprește la Paris pentru o vacanta. De fapt, vacanța este o acoperire pentru investigația sa privind obligațiunile falsificate de la Banca Lamartine. Charlie a instalat un agent sub acoperire pe nume Nardi, dar banda îl ucide pe Nardi