Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Post about classic films and films related to combat sports and history.
I wanted to write about one of my favorite movies, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. The film (enlace de afiliado) refírese a un compañeiro inglés, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. A historia complícase polo feito de que o compañeiro está casado
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
En agosto 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. Porén, 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. Nun bo negocio
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 “Non. 2 Son Jimmy”. Toler was deathly ill during the filming, so Jimmy and Birmingham Brown, played by Mantan Moreland, handle most of
O caso Canary Murder (1929) foi orixinalmente filmado como un filme mudo. Porén, o executivo da Paramount Estudo penso que sería mellor como unha película falada. O estudo atrasou o lanzamento ata que puidesen engadir son á película. A adición de son non era sen os seus retos. Desafortunadamente, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, had
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,
Murder sobre New York (1940) é unha das edicións posteriores da serie Charlie Chan á Twentieth Century Fox-Productions. Nesta película, Inspector Chan está axudando seu vello amigo de 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 escribiu a historia das cousas a vir, que foi transformado nun filme en 1936. A película abre durante o Nadal 1940 en Everytown (obviamente Londres) dereito antes da eclosión da guerra. A guerra dura case 30 anos antes “os militares da Forza Aérea” liderado por John Cabal, un antigo habitante da Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
Stan Laurel e Oliver Hardy protagonizar unha das miñas películas favoritas de vacacións, Babe in Toyland (enlace de afiliado) ou Marcha dos soldados de madeira (1934). Normalmente é mostrado en torno de Acción de Grazas. Esta película presenta como Stan Laurel e Oliver Stannie Dun Hardy como Ollie Dee, que están tentando axudar a Nai Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked