Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
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From 1931 kwa 1954, Lum and Abner occupied a spot among the most popular shows during the Old Time Radio era. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff attended the University of Arkansas together. Lauck and Goff later developed their show Lum and Abner based on life in Arkansas. The show struck a cord with many listeners. My wife’s grandmother once told
Novemba 1, 1931, Weiss Brothers Artclass Pictures released The Phantom (1931), a low-budget thriller. The film opens with a death row inmates escape from the prison on the day of his execution. After he jumps from the prison wall to the top of the train, a plane with a rope ladder picks up the prisoner. While the opening sounds
On Machi 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau iliyotolewa Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu mara kukabiliana na hali Murnau ya Dracula riwaya na Bram Stoker. Murnau usahau kununua haki ya filamu hadithi kutoka mali Stoker ya, ambayo karibu kuongozwa na filamu hii kupotea kwa filamu watazamaji. Mjane Stoker ya mafanikio sued Murnau na Ujerumani kampuni ya filamu zinazozalishwa mwendo picha. The
On Thanksgiving Weekend 1944, Paramount Pictures released One Body Too Many, a comedy-mystery film starring Jack Haley. Haley famously played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The film also starred Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley and Bela Lugosi in supporting roles. Mwili Mmoja mengi mno huanza na Millionaire Cyrus J. warithi Rutherford alikuja kusikiliza
Minor film company Conn Pictures Company released Tough to Handle (1937) on May 24, 1937. Director S. Roy Luby pairs “B” film stars Kane Richmond and Frankie Darro in this story of phony lottery tickets. Grandpa Sanford believe he won the lottery. Grandpa will be able to use the money to improve the circumstances of his grandchildren, Mike, alicheza na
Nilitaka kuandika kuhusu moja ya sinema favorite, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. filamu (affiliate kiungo) concerns an English peer, ambao hatari maisha yake kwa kuokoa aristocrats Kifaransa kutoka 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) 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
Julai 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Mwendo “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Mr. Moto Inachukua Likizo yapata Bw. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Mr. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, inakusudia
Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) on April 17, 1942. Zasu Pitts stars as Aunt Emma Bates. In her youth, Aunt Emma was engaged to up-and-coming professional fighter Jim O’Banion. Her sister didn’t approve of the match, so they sent her on a trip to break up the couple. Aunt Emma regretted it and starts following the career
Twentieth Century – Fox Film Company released the fourth Mr. Moto movie, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), on June 24, 1938. Lou Breslow and John Patrick set the film in Cambodia allowing Twentieth-Century Fox to use stock footage of the recently discovered ruins of Angkor Wat. The discovery of Angkor Wat captured the attention of the American public. Nyingi