Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about feature films.
op bijna 70 jaar, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Gefactureerd als Gregorius, een gepensioneerde worstelaar en de vader van de Londense worstelpromotor, Zbyszko toonde zijn worstelkunsten, zelfs op zijn hoge leeftijd, in de kenmerkende scène van de film. De film begint met een man die Harry Fabian achtervolgt, a London hustler always looking
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) vrijgegeven Schaduw van de dunne man (1941) in november 1941. Een van de latere Thin Man-films (affiliate link), de film bevat interessante vignetten voor worstelfans. Niek Charles, played by William Powell, wordt betrokken bij een staatsonderzoek naar een lokale gokring. Twee lokale worstelpromotoren runnen de gokring, dat is kunst die het leven imiteert als
Op mei 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate link) werd uitgebracht in Berlijn, Duitsland. Naast het feit dat op de meeste lijsten voor de top 100 films aller tijden, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). De film is het verhaal van een reeks kind moorden die plaatsvinden in Berlijn. The police are determined to catch the killer
Op november 13, 1930, Roland V. West uitgebracht The Bat Whispers,,en,Editing nog steeds gedomineerd de continuïteit en het verhaal,,en,de tweede van drie films gebaseerd op de populaire Shadow radioprogramma,,en (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, De Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Echter, 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.
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (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. A significant portion of the movie is the retelling of
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 kocht de rechten en regisseerde The Bat (1926), een van de eerste “oud donker huis” mysteries voor United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson was de cameraman voor zowel deze film en The Old Dark House (1932), die vergelijkbaar zijn expressionistische elementen te delen. Beide films zijn in grote herenhuizen, 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