Borrokako Kirolen Historialaria eta Martzial Artista
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Martxoan 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau kaleratu Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu Murnau en Drakula eleberriaren egokitzapena Bram Stokerren zen. Murnau ahaztutako eskubideak erosteko istorioa filmatzeko Stokerren finka batetik, horrek ia film hau galtzen ari ikuslek filmatzeko ekarri. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. The
George Collins, Batasunaren parte hartzen duten bigarren banku lapurra, MO banku abendua on lapurreta 26, 1902, St ihes egiten saiatu. Louis urtarrilean Jail 1904. Beste preso lanean zulo bat egiteko kartzela horma on gain, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
I wanted to write about one of my favorite movies, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. The film (kidea lotura) 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
Irailaren 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 du. 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
Urtarrilaren On 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 daudelarik 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Julius “Osaba Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Osaba Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Leek bere bi urteko seme Gilbert bakar gisa hazteko erronka izan zuen
Irailaren 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (kidea lotura) Alvin C sarjentuaren istorioa kontatzen du. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. Filma igandeko elizkizunaren eta elizkizunaren kontrastearekin hasten da
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Polizia Louis Metropolitan Saila. 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. Urtarrilaren On
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. Irailaren 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.