Skaduwee van die dun man (1941)

William-Powell

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Shadow of the Thin Man vrygestel (1941) in November 1941. Een van die latere Thin Man-films (Koste skakel), die film bevat interessante vignette vir stoei-aanhangers. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, word ingetrek in 'n staatsondersoek van 'n plaaslike dobbelring. Twee plaaslike stoeipromotors bestuur die dobbelring, wat kuns is wat die lewe naboots as

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Night and the City (1950)

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Byna 70 jaar oud, Stanislaus Zbyszko het sy rolprentdebuut in Night and the City gemaak (1950). Gefaktureer as Gregorius, 'n afgetrede stoeier en die vader van Londen se stoeipromotor, Zbyszko het sy stoeivaardighede ten toon gestel, selfs op sy hoë ouderdom, in die rolprent se kenmerkende toneel. Die fliek begin met 'n man wat vir Harry Fabian jaag, 'n Londense skarrel wat altyd soek

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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. In 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, Die Bat Whispers,

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Metropolis (1927)

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Januarie 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 sterre. It is #104 on the Top 250. In 'n tema wat die samelewing sedert die begin van die geworstel het

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After the Thin Man (1936)

William-Powell

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) vrygelaat nadat Die maer man (1936), die opvolger van die gewilde Dun Man (1934), on Christmas Day 1936. Die film is een van 14 films William Powell en Myrna Loy byeengekom. Powell en Loy speel Dashiell Hammet se karakters Nick en Nora Charles onderskeidelik. Nick Charles formerly worked as a private detective before marrying the wealthy heiress Nora.

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M (1931)

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Op Mei 11, 1931, Fritz Lang se klassieke film M (Koste skakel) in Berlyn vrygestel, Duitsland. Behalwe dat op die meeste lyste vir die top 100 films van alle tye, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Die film is die verhaal van 'n reeks van kindermoorde wat plaasvind in Berlyn. The police are determined to catch the killer

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

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This film (Koste skakel) was the first Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes. Sidney Lanfield gerig The Hound van die Baskervilles (1939) vir die twintigste eeu Fox. Nigel Bruce mede-sterre soos 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. This film is a

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Die Bat Whispers (1930)

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