Ohut miehen varjo (1941)

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) julkaisi Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) marraskuussa 1941. Yksi myöhemmistä Thin Man -elokuvista (affiliate link), elokuva sisältää mielenkiintoisia vinjettejä painifaneille. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, joutuu paikallisen pelirenkaan valtiontutkintaan. Kaksi paikallista painipromoottoria pyörittää uhkapeliä, mikä on elämää matkivaa taidetta, jos

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Night and the City (1950)

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At nearly 70 vuotiaita, 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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Corsair (1931)

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Roland V. West directed fourteen films in his career. Critics consider three of his films to be excellent. West directed the silent thriller The Bat in 1926. West directed his most acclaimed film, Alibi (1929), which resulted in an Oscar nomination for his friend Chester Morris. Sisään 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, The Bat Whispers,

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Metropolis (1927)

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Tammikuu 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. Teemana, jonka kanssa yhteiskunta on paininut vuoden alusta lähtien

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After the Thin Man (1936)

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) released After The Thin Man (1936), the sequel to the popular Thin Man (1934), on Christmas Day 1936. The film is one of 14 films William Powell and Myrna Loy made together. Powell and Loy play Dashiell Hammet’s characters Nick and Nora Charles respectively. Nick Charles formerly worked as a private detective before marrying the wealthy heiress Nora.

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M (1931)

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Toukokuun 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate link) julkaistiin Berliinissä, Saksa. Sen lisäksi, että useimmissa luettelot alkuun 100 elokuvien kaikkien aikojen, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Elokuva on tarina sarja lapsi murhista, joita tapahtuu Berliinissä. The police are determined to catch the killer

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

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This film (affiliate link) oli ensimmäinen Sherlock Holmes -elokuva, jossa Basil Rathbone näytteli Holmesia. Sidney Lanfield directed The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) for Twentieth-Century Fox. Nigel Bruce co-stars as Dr. John Watson. Rathbone and Bruce would play Holmes and Watson in thirteen subsequent films, one more for Twentieth-Century Fox and twelve for Universal Pictures. Tämä elokuva on a

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The Bat Whispers (1930)

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Marraskuun 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Kuitenkin, 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.

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