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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

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Sherlock Holmes i Washington (1943) er den tredje av tolv Universal Picture produksjoner av Sherlock Holmes serien. Basil Rathbone og Nigel Bruce spilte rollen som Holmes og Watson henholdsvis i to filmer for Twentieth-Century Fox og tolv mer for Universal Pictures. Denne filmen er igjen satt i 1940. Holmes and Watson have traveled to Washington, D.C. to keep secret

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) er den tredje Twentieth-Century Fox film med Sidney Toler som Charlie Chan. Inspector Chan and Jimmy Chan, spilt av Victor Sen Yung, are flying to the San Francisco World Exposition in 1939 as the film opens. Den humpete tur gjør Jimmy veldig nervøs. Also on the flight is Charlie’s friend Paul Essex, played

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Farlig Penger (1946) er den nest siste Charlie Chan film stjernegalleri Sidney Toler fra Monogram Pictures. Etter Sidney Toler død, Roland Winters ville ta over rollen for ni flere filmer. 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

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Sherlock Holmes i The Pearl of Death (1944) er den niende av fjorten filmer i serien stjernegalleri Basil Rathbone som Sherlock Holmes. I denne filmen, Holmes is battling archcriminal Giles Conover, spilt av 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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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 Secret (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better

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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” film serie. 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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