Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
Post about classic films and films related to combat sports and history.
Je voulais écrire à propos de l'un de mes films préférés, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). Ce est une adaptation du roman du même nom, écrite par la baronne Orczy. Le film (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, qui risque sa vie en sauvant aristocrates français de la 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) sur Octobre 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
Sur Août 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. Cependant, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
Sherlock Holmes et la voix de la terreur (1942) est le premier des douze films Sherlock Holmes faites par Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone et Nigel Bruce reprennent leurs rôles en tant que Sherlock Holmes et le Dr. Watson respectivement. Jeu universel de la série dans les années 1940, malgré le fait que le littéraire Sherlock Holmes était 60 ans dans 1914. In a good deal
Le piège (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 “Pas. 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. Cependant, 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. Malheureusement, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, avait
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,
Assassiner dessus de New York (1940) est l'une des éditions suivantes de la série Charlie Chan pour Twentieth-Century Fox Productions. Dans ce film, Inspecteur Chan est d'aider son vieil ami de Scotland Yard, Inspecteur 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 et Oliver Hardy tiennent le premier rôle dans un de mes films préférés de vacances, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) ou Marche des Soldats de Bois (1934). Il est normalement représenté autour de Thanksgiving. Ce film met en scène Stan Laurel que Stannie Dum et Oliver Hardy comme Ollie Dee, qui tentent d'aider la mère Pipe, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked