Hanesydd Chwaraeon Brwydro ac Artist Ymladd
Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 a 1949.
Ar Orffennaf 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (cyswllt Affiliate). Yn y ffilm hon, John Davis Lodge plays Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond. Drummond is vacationing, when a Scottish scientist escapes from a couple of secret agents. The scientist throws a rock through the window of Drummond’s cabin.
Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) (cyswllt Affiliate) 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
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation (cyswllt Affiliate) of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre plays the role of Fantomas and his many aliases. Edmund Breon portrays Inspector Juve. George Melchior plays the role of Jerome Fandor, a young journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and
Ar Fawrth 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau Nosferatu rhyddhau (1922). Nosferatu (affilaite link) was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau esgeuluso i brynu'r hawliau i ffilmio'r stori o ystâd Stoker, sydd bron wedi arwain at y ffilm hon yn cael ei golli i ffilmio gwylwyr. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture.
Roland V. Prynu Gorllewin hawliau a chyfarwyddo y Ystlumod (1926) (cyswllt Affiliate), 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
(I have included Chapter 4 from my unpublished book, German Expressionism and The Cat and the Canary.) Leni and Karl Freund are the bridge between German Expressionism and American Expressionism. Freund was an art and film director on such films as The Golem (1920) and Metropolis (1927). He brought the distinct look of Expressionism to Dracula (1931) and The Mummy
Ar Fai 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (cyswllt Affiliate) ei ryddhau yn Berlin, Yr Almaen. Yn ogystal â bod ar y rhan fwyaf rhestrau ar gyfer y brig 100 ffilmiau o bob amser, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Mae'r ffilm yn adrodd hanes cyfres o lofruddiaethau blant sy'n digwydd yn Berlin. The police are determined to catch
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in one of my favorite holiday films, Babe in Toyland (cyswllt Affiliate) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). It is normally shown around Thanksgiving. This film features Stan Laurel as Stannie Dum and Oliver Hardy as Ollie Dee, who are trying to help Mother Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby,
While it may not be on classic film lists, I love The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (cyswllt Affiliate). It is an adaptation of the novel (cyswllt Affiliate) gan yr un enw, a ysgrifennwyd gan y Farwnes Orczy. The film concerns an English gentleman, who risks his life to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney married Marguerite, a French woman with
What happens is the first commercially successful art film (cyswllt Affiliate). The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. It marked the beginning of a German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist paintings were known for buildings sloped at