היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
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אני רוצה לכתוב על אחד הסרטים האהובים עליי, סקרלט פימפרנל (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, נכתב על ידי הברונית Orczy. 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) באוקטובר 26, 1945. Basil Rathbone returns for the twelfth of fourteen times as Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce again plays his assistant Dr. ג'ון ווטסון. As the film begins, Sherlock
On 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. אולם, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
שרלוק הולמס ואת הקול של טרור (1942) הוא הראשון מעשרה סרטים שרלוק הולמס שנעשו על ידי יוניוורסל. בזיל ראת'בון ונייג'ל ברוס שנאי תפקידיהן שכרלוק הולמס ודר. ווטסון בהתאמה. יוניברסל להגדיר את הסדרה ב1940s למרות העובדה שרלוק הולמס הספרותי היה 60 שנים ישנות ב 1914. In a good deal
מלכודת (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 “לא. 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. אולם, 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. למרבה הצער, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, היה
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,
רצח במהלך ניו יורק (1940) הוא אחד מהמהדורות המאוחרות יותר של סדרת צ'רלי צ'אן להפקות פוקס המאה העשרים. בסרט זה, מפקח צ'אן מסייע לידידו הוותיק מסקוטלנד יארד, המפקח דרייק, 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
סטן לורל ואוליבר הארדי לככב באחד מסרטי החג האהובים עליי, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) או מצעד חיילי העץ (1934). הוא מוצג בדרך כלל בסביבות חג ההודיה. 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