Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Im März 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau Nosferatu veröffentlicht (1922). Nosferatu war Murnaus Adaption des Dracula-Roman von Bram Stoker. Murnau versäumt, die Rechte zu kaufen, um die Geschichte aus Stokers Immobilien filmen, die fast bis dieser Film die Zuschauer verloren Film-LED. Stokers Witwe erfolgreich verklagt Murnau und die deutsche Filmfirma, die den Film produziert. Die
George Collins, der zweite Bankräuber in der Union beteiligt, MO Bankraub am Dezember 26, 1902, versucht, die St entkommen. Louis-Gefängnis im Januar 1904. Neben der Arbeit mit den anderen Gefangenen auf ein Loch in der Wand des Gefängnisses, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner ist wohl die beste Film Schilderer von Sherlock Holmes. Seine fünfte und letzte Auftritt als Holmes in Mord im Baskerville (1937). Der Film wurde in Großbritannien Veröffentlicht 1937 aber nicht in Amerika, bis Januar veröffentlicht 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Ich wollte über einen meiner Lieblingsfilme schreiben, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, von Baroness Orczy geschrieben. The film (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
On September 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. Die 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
Am January 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 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Julius “Onkel Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Onkel Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee stand vor der Herausforderung, ihren zweijährigen Sohn Gilbert als Single großzuziehen
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (affiliate link) 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. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. 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. Am January
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. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.