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I den första av de tre Shadow filmer från Monogram Pictures starring Kane Richomond, ett antal medborgare har fallit från fönster till deras död. Två av de män som synes begå självmord framför Lamont Cranston, Shadow, och inspektör Cordonna spelas av Joseph Crehan. Crehan was a character actor who often played policeman in films such as The

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Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the third of twelve Universal Picture productions of the Sherlock Holmes franchise. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred as Holmes and Watson respectively in two films for Twentieth-Century Fox and twelve more for Universal Pictures. This film is again set in the 1940s. Holmes and Watson have traveled to Washington, D.C. to keep secret

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Charlie Chan på Treasure Island (1939) är den tredje Twentieth-Century Fox film från Sidney Toler som Charlie Chan. Inspektör Chan och Jimmy Chan, spelad av Victor Sen Yung, flyger till världsutställningen i San Francisco i 1939 när filmen öppnar. Den omak gör Jimmy väldigt nervös. Med på flyget är också Charlies vän Paul Essex, played

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Dangerous Money (1946) is the second to last Charlie Chan film starring Sidney Toler from Monogram Pictures. After Sidney Toler’s death, Roland Winters would take over the role for nine more films. 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 in The Pearl of Death (1944) is the ninth of fourteen movies in the series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. I denna film, Holmes is battling archcriminal Giles Conover, played by Miles Mander. Conover is attempting to steal a valuable pearl from the British Museum. Han får hjälp i sina brott av medbrottslingarna Naomi Drake och 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 hemlighet (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” filmserie. 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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