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Posts about “B” filmer, 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 till 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
On February 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. I denna film, Herr. Moto undervisar en klass i brottsutredning till flera blivande utredare, inklusive
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) is loosely based on The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The short story was published in The Strand Magazine during May 1893. It was later compiled in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In the story, the Musgrave Mansion held a secret that even it’s inhabitants did not know. This film follows the same plot line
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) är den sista posten i “B” filmserie. RKO Pictures tog serien över från Republic Pictures, som släppte den ursprungliga Dick Tracy följetonger i slutet av 1930-talet och början av 1940-talet. RKO Pictures släppt filmen till teatrar på September 26, 1947. RKO tog Boris Karloff in för att spela Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
När Twentieth Century-Fox beslutat att släppa Charlie Chan serien efter Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler köpt rättigheterna till serien och tog den till Bilder Monogram. Efter att 11 filmer med Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler skulle göra 11 Charlie Chan filmer med Monogram Pictures. Skuggor över China (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. After threatening several
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
The Scarlet Clue (1945) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler gjort elva filmer för Twentieth-Century Fox innan du flyttar serien till Monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. I denna film, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) is another entry in the series starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Charlie is returning from his London investigation, when he stops in Paris for a vacation. Faktiskt, semestern är ett täcke för hans utredning av förfalskade obligationer från Lamartine Bank. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi