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På Augusti 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. Emellertid, Lanyard’s real purpose is a mission for British Intelligence.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) is the first of twelve Sherlock Holmes films made by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprise their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively. Universal set the series in the 1940s despite the fact that the literary Sherlock Holmes was 60 år gammal i 1914. In a good deal
The Trap (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 “Inte. 2 Son Jimmy”. Toler was deathly ill during the filming, so Jimmy and Birmingham Brown, played by Mantan Moreland, handle most of
Kanariefågeln Murder Case (1929) ursprungligen sköt som en stumfilm. Emellertid, Paramount Studio verkställande trodde det skulle vara bättre som en talande bild. Studion försenade lanseringen tills de kunde lägga till ljud till filmen. Tillägget av ljudet var inte utan sina utmaningar. Tyvärr, en av de viktigaste stjärnor av filmen, Louise Brooks, hade
Sedan början av kommersiella filmskapande, produktionsbolag letar alltid efter nytt innehåll. Filmbolag har alltid använt populära böcker som en källa till innehåll och inspiration. Sedan 1950-talet, populära tv-program som filmanpassningar och inspiration. I början av talande filmer, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and Abner, Jack Benny,
Murder Over New York (1940) is one of the later editions of the Charlie Chan series for Twentieth-Century Fox Productions. I denna film, Inspector Chan is assisting his old friend from Scotland Yard, Inspector 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 skrev historien om saker som kommer, som förvandlades till en film i 1936. Filmen öppnar under julen 1940 i Everytown (uppenbarligen London) precis innan krigsutbrottet. Kriget varar nästan trettio år innan “Airmenna” ledd av John Cabal, tidigare bosatt i 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, Herr. Moto (1937) juli 27, 1937. Peter Lorre would play Mr. Moto seven more times for Twentieth Century – Fox. Herr. Moto klär ut sig till en handlare och
Stan Laurel och Oliver Hardy stjärnan i en av mina favorit semesterfilmer, Babe in Toyland (affiliate länk) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Det är normalt visas runt Thanksgiving. Denna film har Stan Laurel som Stannie Dum och Oliver Hardy som Ollie Dee, som försöker hjälpa Moder Peep, de små gummorna i skon. Barnaby, the wicked
På Oktober 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. Moto (1938), Herr. Moto infiltrates a prison and helps a prisoner escape to discover the plans of his criminal organization. Herr. Moto breaks international criminal Paul Brissac, played by Leon Ames, out of