Londyn vs. Nagurski in 1938

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W listopadzie 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several

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Night and the City (1950)

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At nearly 70 lat, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Billed as Gregorious, a retired wrestler and the father of London’s wrestling promoter, Zbyszko displayed his wrestling skills, even at his advanced age, in the film’s signature scene. The movie begins with a man chasing Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking

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Oldest Wrestling Film in Existence

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Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Tragicznie, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match

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Alias ​​Champ (1949)

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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

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Panie. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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

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Panie. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

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W kwietniu 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox released the seventh of eight Mr. Ruch “B” kino. Panie. Moto in Danger Island begins with Mr. Moto on a ship headed to Puerto Rico. Panie. Ruch, played by Peter Lorre, and several passengers are watching a wrestling match. Twister McGurk, played by Warren Hymer, is wrestling Sailor Sam, played by Ward Bond. Panie. Ruch

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Panie. Moto’s Last Warning (1939)

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In the sixth of eight Mr. Moto films released between 1937 i 1939, Interpol police officer Kentaro Moto pursues a group of international saboteurs. Twentieth Century – Fox Film Corporation released Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939) (związek partnerski) on January 20, 1939. Peter Lorre returns as the cerebral but deadly Mr. Ruch. Ricardo Cortez plays Fabian the Great, a ventriloquist,

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