Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Post about classic films and films related to combat sports and history.
På September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation släppt Sergeant York (1941). The film (affiliate länk) berättar historien om 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. Filmen börjar med kontrasten mellan en söndagsgudstjänst och den
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) is loosely based on The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The short story was published in The Strand Magazine during May 1893. It was later compiled in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In the story, the Musgrave Mansion held a secret that even it’s inhabitants did not know. 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) är den sista posten i “B” filmserie. RKO Pictures tog serien över från Republic Pictures, som släppte den ursprungliga Dick Tracy följetonger i slutet av 1930-talet och början av 1940-talet. RKO Pictures släppt filmen till teatrar på September 26, 1947. RKO tog Boris Karloff in för att spela Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
När Twentieth Century-Fox beslutat att släppa Charlie Chan serien efter Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler köpt rättigheterna till serien och tog den till Bilder Monogram. Efter att 11 filmer med Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler skulle göra 11 Charlie Chan filmer med Monogram Pictures. Skuggor över China (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) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler gjort elva filmer för Twentieth-Century Fox innan du flyttar serien till Monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. I denna film, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) is another entry in the series starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Charlie is returning from his London investigation, when he stops in Paris for a vacation. Faktiskt, semestern är ett täcke för hans utredning av förfalskade obligationer från Lamartine Bank. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi