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Yn y cyntaf o'r tair ffilm Cysgodol o Pictures Monogram serennu Kane Richomond, mae nifer o ddinasyddion wedi gostwng o ffenestri i'w farwolaeth. Mae dau o'r dynion sy'n ymddangos yn cyflawni hunanladdiad o flaen Lamont Cranston, y Cysgodol, a'r Arolygydd Cordonna chwarae gan Joseph Crehan. Crehan was a character actor who often played policeman in films such as The
Sherlock Holmes yn Washington (1943) yw'r trydydd o ddeuddeg gynyrchiadau Universal Llun y fasnachfraint Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone a Nigel Bruce serennu fel Holmes a Watson yn y drefn honno mewn dau ffilmiau ar gyfer yr Ugeinfed Ganrif Fox a deuddeg yn fwy am Universal Pictures. Mae'r ffilm wedi ei osod eto yn y 1940au. Holmes a Watson wedi teithio i Washington, D.C. to keep secret
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) is the third Twentieth-Century Fox film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Arolygydd Chan a Jimmy Chan, a chwaraeir gan Victor Sen Yung, yn hedfan i'r San Francisco World Exposition i mewn 1939 wrth i'r ffilm agor. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Hefyd ar yr awyren mae ffrind Charlie, Paul Essex, played
Arian Peryglus (1946) yw'r ail i bara Charlie Chan ffilm yn serennu Sidney TOLER o Monogram Lluniau. Ar ôl marwolaeth Sidney TOLER yn, Byddai Roland Winters yn cymryd dros y rôl ar gyfer naw fwy o ffilmiau. 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 yn The Pearl Marwolaeth (1944) yw'r nawfed pedwar ar ddeg o ffilmiau yn y gyfres serennu Basil Rathbone fel Sherlock Holmes. Yn y ffilm hon, Holmes is battling archcriminal Giles Conover, chwaraeir gan Miles Mander. Conover is attempting to steal a valuable pearl from the British Museum. He is aided in his crimes by accomplices Naomi Drake and The
Clywais am Chang Apana mewn featurette ar un o'r setiau Charlie Chan DVD. 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) ar Ragfyr 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. Secret Charlie Chan yn (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” cyfres ffilm. 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,
What happens is the first commercially successful art film. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. 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,