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Legacy posts about films from the silent and classic Hollywood film eras.
Når Twentieth Century-Fox bestemte seg for å droppe Charlie Chan serien etter Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler kjøpt rettighetene til serien og tok det til Monogram Pictures. Etter å ha gjort 11 filmer med Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler ville gjøre 11 Charlie Chan filmer med Monogram Pictures. Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) was the ninth film that Toler made for Monogram
Juve vs.. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation (affiliate link) of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre spiller rollen som Fantomas og hans mange aliaser. Edmund Breon skildrer Inspektør Juve. George Melchior spiller rollen Jerome Fandor, en ung journalist, som bistår Juve i sine undersøkelser av Fantomas. Juve and
Universal Pictures released the thirteenth (affiliate link) of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes on February 1, 1946. Twentieth Century-Fox produced the first two films. Universal produced the final 12 filmer. Terror By Night (1946) finds Holmes hired to protect the Star of Rhodesia diamond on a train bound for Scotland. Rodney Carstairs hires Holmes to
Tangled Destinies (1932) er et eksempel på et tidlig “B” film, filmen vises først på en dobbel regning. However, denne filmen (affiliate link) holds up well despite being released during the early transition to sound films. Frank R. Strayer regissert filmen for Mayfair Pictures Corporation. Strayer was a better than average “B” film director. He also directed another
One of the earliest talkie films based on the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Speckled Band (1931) is a public domain film heavily edited from its original form. British and Dominion Films Corporation produced the film, which they released on March 5, 1931. Raymond Massey has his first starring role as Sherlock Holmes. The film is set in 1930s England. Sherlock
Mørk Alibi (1946) is one of the last Charlie Chan films starring Sidney Toler. Denne film (affiliate link) and the three subsequent movies made in 1946 ble filmet mens Toler var døende av kreft. Han var så svak, han kunne knapt gå i løpet av disse filmene. Han klarte å gjøre disse fire siste filmene, selv om han var 72 år
Januar 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film (affiliate link) is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies.
Farlig Penger (1946) er den nest siste Charlie Chan film stjernegalleri Sidney Toler fra Monogram Pictures. Etter Sidney Toler død, Roland Winters ville ta over rollen for ni flere filmer. Denne film (affiliate link) tillater oss å sette pris Toler skildring av Inspector Chan for nær den siste tiden. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his
Gorilla (1939) er en komedie-mysteriet “B” film (affiliate link) starring the Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi og Lionell Atwill. Filmen ble produsert av Twentieth-Century Fox før de sluttet å lage “B” filmer, the first film on a double bill. Ritz Brothers var aktive mellom 1925 og 1960-tallet, når Al Ritz den eldste bror gikk bort. Den
The Woman in Green (1945) is the ninth of twelve Sherlock Holmes (affiliate link) produced by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone returns as Holmes in the eleventh of fourteen turns as the English sleuth. The film is one of the few “B” series films, which could have been an “A” film. Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of several young London women.