Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Postitage klassikaliste filmide ning võitlusspordi ja ajalooga seotud filmide kohta.
Tahtsin kirjutada üks mu lemmik filme, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, kirjutas paruness Orczy. The film (affiliate link) puudutab inglise eakaaslast, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. Loo teeb keeruliseks asjaolu, et eakaaslane on abielus
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) oktoobril 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. Siiski, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
Sherlock Holmes ja Voice of Terror (1942) on esimene kaheteistkümnest Sherlock Holmes filmi teinud Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone ja Nigel Bruce reprise rollides Sherlock Holmes ja dr. Watson vastavalt. Universal seatud seeria 1940 vaatamata sellele, et kirjandus Sherlock Holmes oli 60 aastat vana 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 “Mitte. 2 Son 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. Siiski, 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. Kahjuks, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, oli
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,
Mõrv Over New York (1940) üks hiljem väljaanded Charlie Chan seeria Twentieth-Century Fox Productions. In this film, Inspektor Chan on abiks tema vana sõber Scotland Yard, Inspektor 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 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 ja Oliver Hardy star üks minu lemmik puhkus filmid, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). See on tavaliselt näidatud umbes Thanksgiving. This film features Stan Laurel as Stannie Dum and Oliver Hardy as Ollie Dee, who are trying to help Mother Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked