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Posts about feature films.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) släppte Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) i november 1941. En av de senare Thin Man-filmerna (affiliate länk), filmen innehåller intressanta vinjetter för brottningsfans. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, dras in i en statlig utredning av en lokal spelkrets. Två lokala brottningspromotorer driver spelringen, som är konst som imiterar livet om
Vid nästan 70 år, Stanislaus Zbyszko gjorde sin filmdebut i Night and the City (1950). Räknas som Gregorious, en pensionerad brottare och far till Londons brottningspromotor, Zbyszko visade sina brottningsfärdigheter, även i hans höga ålder, i filmens signaturscen. Filmen börjar med en man som jagar Harry Fabian, en London hustler som alltid letar
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,
På Januari 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 ett tema som samhället har brottats med sedan början av
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.
Fritz Lang gjorde en av hans tidiga brotts filmer 1922. Han riktade Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), som körde ungefär fyra timmar och trettio minuter. Den berättar historien om Dr. Mabuse, professor i psykoanalys. He is also the leader of a criminal ring in the mold of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series. In his multiple
På maj 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate länk) släpptes i Berlin, Tyskland. Förutom att vara på de flesta listor för toppen 100 filmer genom tiderna, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Filmen är berättelsen om en serie barnamord som uppstår i Berlin. The police are determined to catch the killer
På Januari 10, 1940, Rowland V. Lee released his low-budget feature film The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) through United Artists. Rowland V. Lee started directing films in 1920 and would make 59 films before retiring in 1945. I denna film, Louis Hayward plays The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes, Jr. Greven ärver sin fars pengar och
This film (affiliate länk) var den första Sherlock Holmes-filmen med Basil Rathbone som Holmes. Sidney Lanfield riktade The Baskervilles hund (1939) för Twentieth-Century Fox. Nigel Bruce co-stjärnor som 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. Den här filmen är en
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. Emellertid, 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.