Staidéar i Scarlet (1933)

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Réaltaí Reginald Owen mar Sherlock Holmes i gceann de na hoiriúnuithe pictiúr tairiscint ag caint go luath Mheiriceá Sherlock Holmes. Staidéar i Scarlet (1933) (nasc affiliate) Feiceann Holmes ag iarraidh a dúnmharuithe a réiteach i measc grúpa de confederates. Arthur Wontner réalta i roinnt oiriúnuithe mBéarla rathúil an tsraith, a spreag dócha Hollywood agra a leanúint. Unfortunately, Reginald Owen did not

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An tUasal. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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Ar Iúil 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Moto “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. An tUasal. Faigheann Moto Takes a Vacation an tUasal. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. An tUasal. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, intinn

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Hotel Sneak Thief Captured

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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. Meán Fómhair 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.

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“Terrible” Terry Beats Dixon for Title

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Ar Eanáir 5, 1900, four days before a showdown with Bantamweight Boxing Champion Terry McGovern, Featherweight World Boxing Champion George Dixon made an announcement to chill the spine of all his supporters. Dixon announced that win or lose, he would be retiring from the ring after the bout with McGovern. The last thing a manager wants to hear before a

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The Black Raven (1943)

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Dubh Raven (1943) Tá “B” scannán (nasc affiliate) from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). George Zucco plays Amos Bradford aka the Raven, an t-úinéir an Raven Dubh Inn. Bradford ends up hosting several unexpected guests, who are escaping a raging thunderstorm. The storm washed out all the bridges and stranded the visitors, which include a couple trying to elope,

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John Riley Collects Poll Tax

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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. One of the mechanisms governments used to collect fees for road

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Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)

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Ar Iúil 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (nasc affiliate). Sa scannán seo, John Davis Lodge plays Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond. Drummond is vacationing, when a Scottish scientist escapes from a couple of secret agents. The scientist throws a rock through the window of Drummond’s cabin.

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