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Posts about feature films.
Is Arthur Wontner fhéadfaí a rá an portrayer scannán is fearr de Sherlock Holmes. A turas cúigiú agus an ceann deireanach mar Holmes i Dúnmharú ar an Baskervilles (1937). Scaoileadh an scannán sa Ríocht Aontaithe i 1937 ach ní a scaoileadh i Meiriceá go dtí Eanáir 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
An bua de 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. Cuid shuntasach den scannán is ea athinsint
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 scaoileadh Ceapachán le Contúirt (nasc affiliate) in London in 1950 ach níor scaoil sé san Aontaithe é
Sa dara scannán Sherlock Holmes a mhaireann (nasc affiliate) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, dhá coirpigh gur éalaigh phríosún. Tá siad ag iarraidh díoltas a cruinn ar na fir, a thrasnaigh dúbailte ar cheann de na coirpigh, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls inis dhá cheann de na maoir a bpríosún nuair a bhí i bhfolach fhortún mór. The wardens find the treasure, bhfuil a
Chomh maith leis sin ar a dtugtar ag an Chairdinéil Codlata, Sherlock Holmes’ Uair mharfach (1931) is é an chéad scannán Sherlock Holmes starring Arthur Wontner i ról an teideal. Baineann an scannán le fear óg, a bhí ag cheating ag droichead agus faigh ar ais ar a saibhreas caillte. Professor Moriarty uses the information in an attempt to blackmail the young man Ronald Adair, portrayed by Leslie Perrins.
Roland V. Cheannaigh Iarthar na cearta agus d'ordaigh an Ialtóg (1926), ar cheann de na chéad “sean-teach dorcha” mysteries do United Ealaíontóir 1926. Raibh Arthur Edeson an cineamatagrafaí do scannán seo agus Dark Sean Teach (1932), a pháirtíonn gnéithe expressionist den chineál céanna. Sa dá scannán, atá leagtha i Fatima móra, ina raibh laethanta níos fearr. The key to the
Meán Fómhair 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (nasc 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. D’fhreastail Vance ar sheó madraí le Coe agus a chuid
Meán Fómhair 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