Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Plaas oor klassieke films en films wat verband hou met gevegsport en geskiedenis.
Ek wou oor een van my gunsteling films te skryf, Die Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). Dit is 'n aanpassing van die roman met dieselfde naam, geskryf deur Barones Orczy. The film (Koste skakel) gaan oor 'n Engelse eweknie, wat sy lewe risiko's deur die redding van die Franse aristokrate van die guillotine. Die storie word gekompliseer deur die feit waarmee die portuur getroud is
In one of the last films in the series, British authorites recruit Sherlock Holmes to protect the young heir to a European throne. Universal Pictures released Pursuit to Algiers (1945) on October 26, 1945. Basil Rathbone returns for the twelfth of fourteen times as Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce again plays his assistant Dr. John Watson. As the film begins, Sherlock
Augustus 19, 1943, Columbia Pictures released Passport to Suez (1943). Warren William plays Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, for the final time in this film. The film opens in Alexandria, Egypt, where Lanyard has just arrived. Lanyard meets up with his old friend Johnny Booth, a successful cafe’ owner. Egter, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) is the first of twelve Sherlock Holmes films made by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprise their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively. Universal set the series in the 1940s despite the fact that the literary Sherlock Holmes was 60 years old in 1914. In a good deal
The Trap (1946) is the last Charlie Chan film starring Sidney Toler as Inspector Chan. The eleventh of eleven Charlie Chan films that Toler made for Monogram Pictures, it marks the return of Victor Sen Yung as “Nie. 2 Seun Jimmy”. Toler was deathly ill during the filming, so Jimmy and Birmingham Brown, played by Mantan Moreland, handle most of
The Canary Murder Case (1929) was originally shot as a silent film. Egter, the Paramount Studio executive thought it would be better as a talking picture. The studio delayed the release until they could add sound to the film. The addition of sound was not without its challenges. Ongelukkig, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, gehad het
Sedert die begin van die kommersiële film maak, produksie maatskappye is altyd op soek na nuwe inhoud. Film maatskappye het altyd gebruik populêre boeke as 'n bron van die inhoud en inspirasie. Sedert die 1950's, gewilde TV-programme verskaf film aanpassings en inspirasie. In die vroeë dae van praat films, gewilde radioprogramme gelei tot baie film aanpassings. Lum en Abner, Jack Benny,
Moord Oor New York (1940) is one of the later editions of the Charlie Chan series for Twentieth-Century Fox Productions. In hierdie film, Inspector Chan is assisting his old friend from Scotland Yard, Inspector Drake, find a group of saboteurs. The spies intend to sabotage some test air craft in New York. Inspector Drake is tracing Paul Narvo, who leads
H.G. Wells het die verhaal van dinge om te kom, wat verander het in 'n film in 1936. Die film tydens Kersfees open 1940 in Everytown (natuurlik London) reg voor die uitbreek van die oorlog. Die oorlog duur byna dertig jaar voor “die vlieëniers” gelei deur John Cabal, 'n voormalige inwoner van Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
Stan Laurel en Oliver Hardy ster in een van my gunsteling vakansie films, Babe in Toyland (Koste skakel) of March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Dit word gewoonlik rondom Thanksgiving getoon. Hierdie film funksies Stan Laurel as Stannie Dum en Oliver Hardy as Ollie Dee, wat probeer Moeder Peep te help, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked