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Posts about feature films.
Ved næsten 70 år, Stanislaus Zbyszko fik sin filmdebut i Night and the City (1950). Beregnet som Gregorious, en pensioneret wrestler og far til Londons wrestlingpromotor, Zbyszko viste sine brydningsevner, selv i hans høje alder, i filmens signaturscene. Filmen begynder med en mand, der jagter Harry Fabian, en London hustler altid på udkig
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) udgivet Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) i november 1941. En af de senere Thin Man-film (affiliate link), filmen indeholder interessante vignetter for wrestling-fans. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, er trukket ind i en statslig undersøgelse af en lokal gambling ring. To lokale wrestling-promotorer driver gambling-ringen, som er kunst, der efterligner livet hvis
Den maj 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate link) blev udgivet i Berlin, Tyskland. Udover at være på de fleste lister toppen 100 film af alle tid, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Filmen er historien om en række barn mord, der finder sted i Berlin. The police are determined to catch the killer
På November 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, The Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Men, West is able to experiment with film techniques like tracking shots, still a novelty in early sound cinema. Editing still dominated as the continuity and story moving technique.
Sherlock Holmes triumf (1935) is one of the five Sherlock Holmes films starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adapted the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear but added to the story to give Professor Moriarty and Col. Sebastian Moran roles in the story. En væsentlig del af filmen er genfortælling af
Fritz Lang made one of his early crime films in 1922. He directed Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), which ran approximately four hours and thirty minutes. It tells the story of Dr. Mabuse, a professor of psychoanalysis. He is also the leader of a criminal ring in the mold of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series. In his multiple
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
Roland V. West købte rettighederne og instrueret The Bat (1926), en af de første “gamle mørke hus” mysterier for United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson var filmfotograf for både denne film og Den Gamle Mørk House (1932), der deler lignende ekspressionistiske elementer. Begge film er i store palæer, which have seen better days. The key to the
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre plays the role of Fantomas and his many aliases. Edmund Breon portrays Inspector Juve. George Melchior plays the role of Jerome Fandor, a young journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and Fandor are