Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Op maart 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau vrijgegeven Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu was aanpassing Murnau's van de roman Dracula van Bram Stoker. Murnau nagelaten de rechten kopen om het verhaal te filmen van Stoker's landgoed, die bijna leidde tot deze film verloren aan kijkers filmen. Stoker's weduwe met succes aangeklaagd Murnau en de Duitse filmmaatschappij die de film produceerde. De
George Collins, de tweede bankrover die betrokken zijn bij de Unie, MO bankoverval op december 26, 1902, probeerde te ontsnappen aan de St. Louis Jail in januari 1904. Naast het werken met de andere gevangenen op het maken van een gat in de muur van de gevangenis, 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
Ik wilde schrijven over een van mijn favoriete films, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). Het is een verfilming van de roman van de zelfde naam, geschreven door Barones Orczy. De film (affiliate link) betreft een Engelse collega, die zijn leven riskeert door het opslaan van de Franse aristocraten van de 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. De 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 buiten 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO op maart 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 “Luwte” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee stond voor de uitdaging om haar tweejarige zoon Gilbert als alleenstaande groot te brengen
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). De 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. 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. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.