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Volevo scrivere di uno dei miei film preferiti, La primula rossa (1935). Si tratta di un adattamento del romanzo omonimo, scritto da Baroness Orczy. The film (link di affiliazione) riguarda un coetaneo inglese, che rischia la vita per salvare aristocratici francesi dalla ghigliottina. 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) ottobre 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
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. Tuttavia, 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 anni in 1914. In un buon affare
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
The Canary Murder Case (1929) was originally shot as a silent film. Tuttavia, 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. Sfortunatamente, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, avevo
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,
Omicidio Sopra New York (1940) è una delle edizioni successive della serie Charlie Chan in Twentieth-Century Fox Productions. In questo film, L'ispettore Chan sta aiutando il suo vecchio amico di Scotland Yard, Ispettore Drake, trovare un gruppo di sabotatori. Le spie intendono sabotare qualche prova mestiere d'aria a 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 e Oliver Hardy stella in uno dei miei film preferiti di vacanza, Babe in Toyland (link di affiliazione) o Marcia dei Soldati di Legno (1934). E 'normalmente indicata intorno Ringraziamento. Questo film presenta Stan Laurel come Stannie Dum e Oliver Hardy come Ollie Dee, che stanno cercando di aiutare Madre Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked