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Posts about “B” filme, the first film shown on a double bill.
Octombrie 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932), the film end to a radio play of the same year. The film concerns the murder of Jenny Wren or more properly “Who Killed Jenny Wren?” Wren, played by Karen Morley, blackmails several prominent men, who carried on affairs with her in the past. One of the men
Broadcast companies were looking for content during the early days of television. Besides older movies and some broadcast company productions, sports were a source of programming for many television stations. The Dumont Television Network was one of the powerhouse networks in the beginning of the Golden Age of Television. One of their most popular programs was wrestling and the star
On August 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions a lansat Killer Dill (1947), un film criminal pe care luptătorul profesionist Mike Mazurki îl joacă „Little Joe”, un scolo jucând ambele părți ale unei ceartă între bande. Stuart Erwin joacă rolul lui Johnny „Killer” Dill, un designer de lenjerie și vânzător, pe care oamenii îl confundă cu un gangster. După ce s-a implicat accidental într-un război între bande, lui
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) se bazează vag pe aventura Musgrave Ritual. Nuvela a fost publicată în revista Strand în luna mai 1893. Mai târziu a fost compilat în Memoriile lui Sherlock Holmes. În povestea, Musgrave conacul a avut loc un secret că chiar e de locuitori nu știu. This film follows the same plot line
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Ianuarie 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Warner Baxter returns for a fourth time as Dr. Robert Ordway in The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945). The newly married third wife of Gordon Carson asks Dr. Ordway to look into his first two wives’ mysterious deaths. Authorities declared both cases to be accidents. Kathleen Carson, played by Hillary Brooke, has begun to doubt the official verdict. Dr. Ordway arrives
RKO Pictures a adus personajului de benzi desenate Dick Tracy pe marele ecran decembrie 1, 1945. În timp ce filmul este cu siguranta un “B” de film menit să fie în primul rând cu privire la proiectul de lege dublu, tot ar fi fost de interes pentru multi fani de populare benzi desenate. Chester Gould a creat banda, în octombrie 1931 for the Detroit
La martie 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. Bashful Bachelor (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. În acest film (affiliate link), burlac de multă vreme Lum Edwards vrea să devină un erou
Ianuarie 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, îl ia