Hanesydd Chwaraeon Brwydro ac Artist Ymladd
Posts about feature films.
Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
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
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 (cyswllt Affiliate) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
Yn yr ail ffilm Sherlock Holmes sydd wedi goroesi (cyswllt Affiliate) serennu Arthur Wontner fel Sherlock Holmes, dau droseddwyr wedi dianc carchar. Maent yn ceisio i union dial ar y dynion, a groesodd dwbl un o'r troseddwyr, Jonathan Smalls. Dywedodd Smalls dau o wardeiniaid ei carchar lle ffortiwn mawr ei guddio. Mae'r wardeiniaid ddod o hyd i'r trysor, cael a
Fe'i gelwir hefyd yn y Cardinal Cysgu, Sherlock Holmes’ Awr Angheuol (1931) yw'r ffilm Sherlock Holmes cyntaf serennu Arthur Wontner yn y rôl deitl. Mae'r ffilm yn ymwneud â dyn ifanc, sydd wedi bod yn twyllo ar bont i adennill ei gyfoeth a gollwyd. Yr Athro Moriarty yn defnyddio'r wybodaeth mewn ymgais i blacmel y dyn ifanc Ronald Adair, portreadu gan Leslie Perrins.
Roland V. Prynu Gorllewin hawliau a chyfarwyddo y Ystlumod (1926), un o'r rhai cyntaf “hen dŷ dywyll” dirgelion ar gyfer Artist Unedig ym 1926. Roedd Arthur Edeson y cinematographer ar gyfer y ffilm a'r Hen House Dark (1932), sy'n rhannu elfennau Mynegiadol tebyg. Mae'r ddau ffilmiau yn cael eu gosod yn y plastai mawr, which have seen better days. The key to the
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (cyswllt Affiliate) tells the story of Sergeant Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and 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
William Powell’s fifth turn as S.S. Van Dine’s detective Philo Vance may have been his best. The Kennel Murder Case (1933) finds Philo Vance trying to solve the murder of Archer Coe. Coe had many enemies but the greatest mystery for Vance is how Coe was murdered in a locked room. Mynychodd Vance sioe gŵn gyda Coe a'i
On September 16, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Most Dangerous Game (1932), a film about a big game hunter becoming the hunted. Joel McCrea plays big game hunter Bob Rainsford. Rainsford is on a yacht off the South American coast discussing his latest hunt, when another guest asks him, “Do you ever think how the tiger felt?” Rainsford laughs at