Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 og 1949.
At nearly 70 ára, 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
Á október 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) (tengja hlekkur), the film end to a radio play of the same year. The film concerns the murder of Jenny Wren or more properly “Who Killed Jenny Wren?” Wren, played by Karen Morley, blackmails several prominent men, who carried on affairs with her in the past. Einn af
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) aðalhlutverki
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 (tengja hlekkur) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a Broadway comedy team before transitioning to films in 1929. Before Robert Woolsey’s untimely death in 1938, Wheeler and Woolsey made 24 films in 8 ár. Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) was the fourth film (tengja hlekkur) starring Wheeler and Woolsey. Set in Paris during World War I, Half Shot at Sunrise tells the
Janúar 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (tengja hlekkur). 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. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning
The Canary Murder Case (1929) var upphaflega skot sem þögul kvikmynd. Þó, Paramount Studio framkvæmdastjóri hélt að það væri betra sem talandi mynd. Stúdíó seinkað út fyrr en þeir gætu að bæta hljóði við kvikmynd. The samlagning af hljóð var ekki án viðfangsefni hennar. Því miður, einn af helstu stjörnum myndarinnar, Louise Brooks, had
Laura (1944) is the story of an ambitious young woman pulled into the middle of a murder investigation by both amorous suitors and jealous women. Laura Hunt, lýst af Gene Tierney, is an advertising executive about to marry a shiftless seducer, Shelby Carpenter, portrayed by Vincent Price. To complicate matters, her aunt Anne Treadwell is in love with the seducer
British International Pictures (BIP) released The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934) (tengja hlekkur) apríl 19, 1934. Ralph Richardson takes his only turn as the English hero Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond. Drummond recently married long-time love interest Phyllis Clavering. Politics and the presence of old foe Carl Peterson intrude on Drummond’s wedded bliss. When Peterson kidnaps Phyllis, Drummond determines to
Reginald Owen stjörnur sem Sherlock Holmes í eitt af fyrstu American tala kvikmynda aðlögun Sherlock Holmes. A Study í Scarlet (1933) (tengja hlekkur) lítur Holmes reyna að leysa morð í hópi confederates. Arthur Wontner lék í nokkrum árangri ensku breytinga á röð, sem líklega innblástur Hollywood að fylgja í kjölfarið. Því miður, Reginald Owen did not