Historik bojových sportů a bojový umělec
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Března 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau propuštěn Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu byl Murnau adaptace románu Dracula Brama Stokera. Murnau zanedbané koupit práva k filmu příběh z Stokera majetku, který téměř vedl k tomuto filmu vytrácí na film diváky. Stokera vdova úspěšně žaloval Murnau a německá filmová společnost, která produkovala film. The
George Collins, Druhá bankovní lupič zapojeni do Evropské unie, MO bankovní loupež prosince 26, 1902, pokoušel se uniknout St. Louis Jail v lednu 1904. Kromě práce s ostatními vězni na díru ve zdi vězení, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner je pravděpodobně nejlepší film portrayer Sherlocka Holmese. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). Film byl propuštěn ve Spojeném království v roce 1937 ale nebyla vydána v Americe až do ledna 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Chtěl jsem napsat o jednom z mých nejoblíbenějších filmů, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). Je to adaptace románu stejného jména, napsal baronky Orczy. The film (partnerský odkaz) concerns an English peer, který riskuje svůj život tím, že uložením francouzských šlechticů z gilotině. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
Září 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
Ledna 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 hvězdy. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Julius “Strýc Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Strýc Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Závětří” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
Září 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (partnerský odkaz) tells the story of Sergeant Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Police Department Louis Metropolitan. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. Ledna
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. Září 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.