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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) é un dos cinco películas de Sherlock Holmes, estrelado por Arthur Wontner como Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adaptou a novela Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear, pero engadiu á historia para dar Profesor Moriarty e Col. Papeis Sebastian Moran na historia. 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 lanzou Appointment with Danger (enlace de afiliado) in London in 1950 pero non o lanzou nos Estados Unidos
Na segunda película sobrevivente de Sherlock Holmes (enlace de afiliado) protagonizado por Arthur Wontner como Sherlock Holmes, dous criminais escaparon do cárcere. Están buscando a vinganza sobre os homes, que dobre atravesou un dos criminais, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls dixo dous dos gardas da súa prisión, onde unha gran fortuna estaba escondido. Os gardas de atopar o tesouro, ter un
Also known at The Sleeping Cardinal, Sherlock Holmes’ Hora Nefasta (1931) é a primeira película Sherlock Holmes, protagonizada por Arthur Wontner no papel-título. A película trata dun home novo, que está a facer trampas na ponte para recuperar a súa fortuna perdida. Profesor Moriarty usa a información nun intento de chantagear o mozo Ronald Adair, interpretado por Leslie Perrins.
Roland V. Occidente comprou os dereitos e dirixiu The Bat (1926), un dos primeiros “vella casa escura” misterios para United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson foi o director de fotografía, tanto a esta película e The Old Dark Casa (1932), que comparten elementos expressionistas semellantes. Ambos os filmes son definidas en grandes mansións, que xa viron días mellores. The key to the
En setembro de 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (enlace de afiliado) 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. Vance asistiu a unha exposición canina con Coe e os seus
En setembro de 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