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In the first of the three Shadow films from Monogram Pictures starring Kane Richomond, a number of citizens have fallen from windows to their death. Two of the men seemingly commit suicide in front of Lamont Cranston, the Shadow, and Inspector Cordonna played by Joseph Crehan. Crehan was a character actor who often played policeman in films such as The
Sherlock Holmes a Washington (1943) és el tercer de dotze produccions universal imatge de la franquícia de Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone i Nigel Bruce va interpretar a Holmes i Watson, respectivament, en dues pel · lícules de Twentieth-Century Fox i dotze més per Universal Pictures. Aquesta pel · lícula se situa de nou en la dècada de 1940. Holmes i Watson han viatjat a Washington, D.C.. to keep secret
Charlie Chan a l'illa del tresor (1939) és la tercera Twentieth-Century Fox pel · lícula protagonitzada per Sidney Toler com Charlie Chan. L'inspector Chan i Jimmy Chan, interpretat per Victor Sen Yung, volen a l'Exposició Mundial de San Francisco 1939 mentre s'obre la pel·lícula. El viatge ple de sots està fent Jimmy molt nerviosa. També al vol hi ha l'amic de Charlie, Paul Essex, played
Diners perillós (1946) és la segona a l'última pel·lícula de Charlie Chan, protagonitzada per Sidney Toler de Monogram Pictures. Després de la mort de Sidney Toler, Roland Winters es faria càrrec de la funció de nou pel·lícules més. This film allows us to appreciate Toler’s portrayal of Inspector Chan for close to the last time. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his twenty-first portrayal
Scrooge (1935) is Twickenham Studios version of the Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. Seymour Hicks plays Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly owner of a London business. He employs an assistant named Bob Cratchit. Scrooge will eventually meet three ghosts on Christmas Eve, who will cause a miraculous change in Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and his assistant. Seymour Hicks was born
Sherlock Holmes in The Pearl of Death (1944) is the ninth of fourteen movies in the series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. En aquesta pel · lícula, Holmes is battling archcriminal Giles Conover, played by Miles Mander. Conover is attempting to steal a valuable pearl from the British Museum. És ajudat en els seus crims pels còmplices Naomi Drake i The
I first heard about Chang Apana in a featurette on one of the Charlie Chan DVD sets. I knew a real life detective inspired Earl Derr Biggers to create Charlie Chan. I did not know who the man was. Chang Apana was that man. Chang Apana (born Ah Ping Chang) al desembre 26, 1871 on the island of Oahu was
The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better
A number of the old Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes movies have recently become available on DVDs and streaming. The Universal series, is well done for a “B” Cicle de cinema. This film would have warmed the audience up for the main feature like Double Indemnity (1944). In the The Scarlet Claw (1944), Sherlock Holmes, played by Rathbone, is in Quebec,
El que passa és la primera pel · lícula de la tècnica amb èxit comercial. El gabinet del Dr. Caligari (1920) va ser llançat al gener 1920 convertint-se en una sensació internacional i alemanya. It marked the beginning of the German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist painters drew buildings sloped at odd angles, oddly shaped furniture,