Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) ga ut Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) i november 1941. En av de senere Thin Man-filmene (affiliate link), filmen inneholder interessante vignetter for wrestling-fans. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, blir trukket inn i en statlig etterforskning av en lokal gambling ring. To lokale brytingspromotører driver gamblingringen, som er kunst som imiterer livet hvis

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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. I 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, The Bat Whispers,

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Metropolis (1927)

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Januar 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. I et tema samfunnet har kjempet med siden begynnelsen av

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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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Dr Mabuse, Gambleren (1922)

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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

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M (1931)

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Mai 11, 1931, Fritz Langs klassiske film M (affiliate link) ble utgitt i Berlin, Tyskland. Foruten å være på de fleste lister for toppen 100 filmer av all tid, Fritz Lang mente hans fineste film var M (1931). Filmen er historien om en serie av barne mord som er forekommende i Berlin. The police are determined to catch the killer

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

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Denne film (affiliate link) was the first Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes. Sidney Lanfield regissert The Hound of Baskerville (1939) for Twentieth-Century Fox. Nigel Bruce co-stjerner som Dr. John Watson. Rathbone og Bruce ville spille Holmes og Watson i tretten påfølgende filmer, en mer for Twentieth-Century Fox og tolv for Universal Pictures. This film is a

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The Bat Whispers (1930)

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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. However, 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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