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Posts about “B” films, the first film shown on a double bill.
While a few actors played Charlie Chan before Warner Oland and a few portrayed Inspector Chan after Roland Winters, the main body of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film adaptations occurred between 1931 a 1949. Warner Oland began playing Charlie Chan in The Black Camel (1931). After his death, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the
En febrero 26, 1943, RKO Pictures released the third film based on the popular Lum and Abner radio show. Two Weeks To Live (1943) stars Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody. Lauck and Goff, who also wrote the show, played the characters on radio beginning in 1931. The show began as a 15 minute radio
Peter Lorre reprises his role as Mr. Kentaro Moto, Interpol Agent, in Mr. Moto’s Gamble (1938). James Tinling directed this film and Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1937). Tinling’s participation caused Lorre to portray Mr. Moto more like Inspector Chan with a little jujitsu thrown in. En esta película, Sr.. Moto imparte una clase de investigación criminal a varios investigadores en ciernes, entre ellos
Sherlock Holmes desafía a la muerte (1943) se basa libremente en la aventura del ritual de Musgrave. El cuento fue publicado en The Strand Magazine en mayo 1893. Más tarde fue compilado en Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes. En la historia, la mansión Musgrave celebró un secreto que incluso sus habitantes no sabían. This film follows the same plot line
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) es la última entrada en “B” Ciclo de cine. RKO Pictures tomó el relevo de la serie Republic Pictures, quien dio a conocer los seriales originales Dick Tracy a finales de 1930 y principios de 1940. RKO Pictures estrenó la película a los cines el septiembre 26, 1947. RKO trajo Boris Karloff en jugar Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Cuando Twentieth Century-Fox decidió abandonar la serie de Charlie Chan después de Castillo en el Desierto (1942), Sidney Toler compró los derechos de la serie y se lo llevó a Monogram Pictures. Después de hacer 11 películas con Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler haría 11 Películas de Charlie Chan con Monogram Pictures. Sombras sobre Chinatown (1946) was the ninth film that Toler made for Monogram
Monogram Pictures released Behind the Mask (1946), the second of three films based on the popular Shadow radio program, on May 25, 1946. “B” Film leading actor Kane Richmond returns as Lamont Cranston, the alter ego of the mysterious Shadow. The film begins by following the activities a blackmailing newspaper reporter Jeff Mann, played by James Cardwell. Después de amenazar a varios
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
La pista del escarlata (1945) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler hizo once películas de Twentieth-Century Fox antes de pasar la serie de Monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. En esta película, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan en París (1935) es otra entrega de la serie protagonizada por Warner Oland como Charlie Chan. Charlie está regresando de su investigación Londres, cuando se detiene en París para unas vacaciones. En realidad, the vacation is a cover for his investigation of forged bonds from the Lamartine Bank. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi