Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Post about classic films and films related to combat sports and history.
Ich wollte über einen meiner Lieblingsfilme schreiben, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, von Baroness Orczy geschrieben. The film (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
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) Oktober 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
August 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. Jedoch, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
Sherlock Holmes und der Stimme des Terrors (1942) ist der erste von zwölf Sherlock Holmes-Filme von Universal Pictures gemacht. Basil Rathbone und Nigel Bruce Reprise ihre Rollen als Sherlock Holmes und Dr.. Watson jeweils. Universal-Set der Serie in den 1940er Jahren trotz der Tatsache, dass die literarische Sherlock Holmes war 60 Jahre alt in 1914. Zu einem guten Preis
Die Falle (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 “No. 2 Sohn Jimmy”. Toler was deathly ill during the filming, so Jimmy and Birmingham Brown, von Mantan Moreland gespielt, handle most of
Das Canary Murder Case (1929) wurde ursprünglich als Stummfilm gedreht. Jedoch, Paramount Studio Executive dachte, es wäre besser als Tonfilm. Das Studio verzögert die Freigabe bis sie könnten Sound zum Film hinzufügen. Die Zugabe von Ton war nicht ohne Herausforderungen. Leider, einer der wichtigsten Stars des Films, Louise Brooks, hatte
Since the beginning of commercial film making, production companies are always looking for new content. Film companies have always used popular books as a source of content and inspiration. Since the 1950s, popular television shows provided film adaptations and inspiration. In the early days of talking films, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and Abner, Jack Benny,
Mord über New York (1940) ist einer der späteren Ausgaben des Charlie Chan-Serie für Twentieth Century Fox Productions. In diesem Film, Inspektor Chan ist die Unterstützung seines alten Freundes von Scotland Yard, Inspektor Drake, finden eine Gruppe von Saboteuren. Die Spione wollen einige Test-Luft Handwerk in New York zu sabotieren. Inspector Drake is tracing Paul Narvo, who leads
H.G. Wells wrote the story of Things to Come, which was turned into a film in 1936. The film opens during Christmas 1940 in Everytown (obviously London) right before the outbreak of war. The war lasts almost thirty years before “the Airmen” led by John Cabal, a former resident of Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
Stan Laurel und Oliver Hardy Stern in einer meiner Lieblingsurlaubsfilme, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) oder Marsch der Holzsoldaten (1934). Es wird normalerweise um Thanksgiving gezeigt. Dieser Film zeigt, wie Stan Laurel und Oliver Stannie Dum Hardy als Ollie Dee, die versuchen, Mutter Peep helfen werden, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked