Sherlock Holmes í Washington (1943)

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Sherlock Holmes í Washington (1943) er þriðja af tólf Universal Picture framleiðslu á Sherlock Holmes kosningaréttur. Basil Rathbone og Nigel Bruce stjörnumerkt sem Holmes og Watson sig í tveimur kvikmynda fyrir Twentieth-Century Fox og tólf meira fyrir Universal Pictures. Þessi mynd er aftur sett í kringum 1940. Holmes og Watson hafa ferðast til Washington, D.C. to keep secret

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Seymour Hicks í Scrooge (1935)

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Skröggur (1935) er Twickenham Studios útgáfa af Charles Dickens’ klassískt, A Christmas Carol. Seymour Hicks spilar Ebenezer Scrooge, á miserly eigandi London Business. Hann ræður aðstoðarmaður heitir Bob Cratchit. Skröggur mun að lokum að uppfylla þrjú drauga á aðfangadagskvöld, who will cause a miraculous change in Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and his assistant. Seymour Hicks was born

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The Pearl of Death (1944)

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Sherlock Holmes in The Pearl of Death (1944) is the ninth of fourteen movies in the series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Í þessari mynd, Holmes is battling archcriminal Giles Conover, played by 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

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Secret Charlie Chan er (1936)

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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 er (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better

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Who Is the Scarlet Claw?

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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” Myndin röð. 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,

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The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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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,

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