Harcsporttörténész és harcművész
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Március 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau Nosferatu megjelent (1922). Nosferatu volt Murnau adaptációja a Drakula regény Bram Stoker. Murnau elhanyagolt, hogy megvásárolja a jogot, hogy a film a történetet Stoker ingatlan, amely szinte vezetett ez a film, hogy elveszett a film nézői. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. A
George Collins, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, attempted to escape the St. Louis Jail in January 1904. Besides working with the other prisoners on making a hole in the wall of the jail, 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
Azt akartam írni az egyik kedvenc filmjeit, A Vörös Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, írta Baroness Orczy. A film (affiliate link) egy angol társat érint, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. A történetet bonyolítja, hogy a kortárs házas
Szeptember 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. A 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
On 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. Egy olyan témában, amellyel a társadalom birkózott a kezdete óta
Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Károly, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle 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-nek az volt a kihívása, hogy egyedülállóként nevelje fel kétéves fiát, Gilbertet
Szeptember 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). A film (affiliate link) Alvin C őrmester történetét meséli el. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. A film a vasárnapi istentisztelet és a
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. On 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. Szeptember 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.