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Posts about “B” scannáin, the first film shown on a double bill.
Ar Deireadh Fómhair 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
Ar Lúnasa 2, 1947, Max M. D'eisigh King Productions Killer Dill (1947), scannán coireachta a imríonn an wrestler gairmiúil Mike Mazurki “Little Joe”, fear cearc ag imirt ar an dá thaobh d'fheachtas gang. Is é Stuart Erwin an ról atá ag Johnny “Killer” Dill, dearthóir lingerie agus díoltóir, a dhéanann daoine dearmad ar gangster. Tar éis dó é féin a bheith páirteach i gcogadh gang de thaisme, a
Sherlock Holmes Faces Bás (1943) bunaithe go scaoilte ar an Eachtraíochta ar an dóiteán Musgrave. Bhí an scéal gearr a foilsíodh i Magazine Trá rith mhí na Bealtaine 1893. Cuireadh le chéile é níos déanaí i na Memoirs de Sherlock Holmes. Sa scéal, seilbh an Ard-Mhéara Musgrave rún go fiú tá sé nach raibh a fhios áitritheoirí. This film follows the same plot line
Dick Tracy Buaileann gruesome (1947) Is é an iontráil dheireanach i “B” sraith scannán. Ghlac Pictiúir RKO an tsraith ar aghaidh ó Pictiúir Poblacht, a scaoileadh an bunaidh serials Dick Tracy sna 1930í déanacha agus 1940í luatha. Pictiúir RKO scaoileadh an scannán a amharclanna Meán Fómhair 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Ar Eanáir 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
Pictiúir RKO thug an Dick Tracy carachtar stiall grinn ar an scáileán mór ar December 1, 1945. Cé go bhfuil an scannán cinnte “B” scannán i gceist a bheith den chéad uair ar an mbille dúbailte, Bheadh sé a bheith fós suim ag an lucht leanúna go leor de na stiall grinn tóir. Chester Gould chruthaigh an stiall i mí Dheireadh Fómhair 1931 for the Detroit
Ar Márta 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The 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. Sa scannán seo (nasc affiliate), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
Ar Eanáir 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, tógann sé