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Sou Out 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. Sepandan, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
Sherlock Holmes ak Vwa a nan laterè (1942) se premye a nan douz disip Sherlock Holmes fim fèt pa Inivèsèl Foto. Basil Rathbone ak Nigel Bruce rpriz wòl yo kòm Sherlock Holmes ak doktè. Watson respektivman. Inivèsèl mete seri a nan ane 1940 yo malgre lefèt ke literè Sherlock Holmes an te 60 ane fin vye granmoun nan 1914. In a good deal
Pèlen an (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 “Se pa. 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. Sepandan, 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. Malerezman, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, te genyen
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,
Touye moun Plis pase New York (1940) se youn nan edisyon yo pita nan seri a Charlie Chan pou ventyèm syèk Fox Productions. Nan sa a fim, Enspektè Chan se ede zanmi fin vye granmoun l 'soti nan Scotland Yard, Enspektè Drake, find a group of saboteurs. The spies intend to sabotage some test air craft in 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
The first Mr. Moto film starring Peter Lorre as Japanese jujitsu expert Kentaro Moto sees Mr. Moto tracking down a smuggling ring leader. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation released Think Fast, Mr. Mouvman (1937) on July 27, 1937. Peter Lorre would play Mr. Moto seven more times for Twentieth Century – Fox. Mr. Moto disguises himself as a peddler and
Stan Laurel ak Oliver Hardy zetwal nan youn nan fim pi renmen jou fèt mwen, Babe in Toyland (lyen afilye) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Li se nòmalman yo montre nan Jou Aksyon de Gras. This film features Stan Laurel as Stannie Dum and Oliver Hardy as Ollie Dee, who are trying to help Mother Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby, the wicked
Sou Oktòb 14, 1938, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation released the fifth of eight Mr. Moto Films starring Peter Lorre as Interpol Policeman Kentaro Moto. In Mysterious Mr. Mouvman (1938), Mr. Moto infiltrates a prison and helps a prisoner escape to discover the plans of his criminal organization. Mr. Moto breaks international criminal Paul Brissac, played by Leon Ames, out of