Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)

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Júlí 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (tengja hlekkur). Í þessari mynd, 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.

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Juve vs.. Fantomas (1913)

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Juve vs.. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation (tengja hlekkur) of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre spilar hlutverk Fantomas og margir samnefni hans. Edmund Breon portrays Eftirlitsmaður Juve. George Melchior spilar hlutverk Jerome Fandor, ungur blaðamaður, sem aðstoðar Juve í rannsókn hans Fantomas. Juve and

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Expressjónismi og Nosferatu (1922)

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Mars 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau út Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu (skerpa hlekkinn) was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau vanrækt að kaupa réttindi til að filma söguna úr búi Stoker er, sem næstum leiddi til þessa kvikmynd að vera glataður að filma áhorfendur. Ekkja Stoker er tekist lögsótt Murnau og þýska kvikmynd fyrirtæki sem framleiddi fyrir hreyfingu mynd.

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The Bat (1926)

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Roland V. West keypt rétt og beint kylfu (1926) (tengja hlekkur), eitt af fyrstu “gamla dökk hús” leyndardóma fyrir United listamaður í 1926. Arthur Edeson var kvikmyndatökumaður, bæði í kvikmynd og gamla Dark House (1932), sem deila svipuðum þætti expressjóníska. Báðar myndirnar eru settar í stórum Mansions, sem hafa séð betri daga. Lykillinn

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Cat and the Canary (1927)

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(I have included Chapter 4 from my unpublished book, German Expressionism and The Cat and the Canary.)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

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M (1931)

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Á maí 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (tengja hlekkur) var gefin út í Berlín, Þýskaland. Auk þess að vera á flestum listum fyrir ofan 100 kvikmyndir allra tíma, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Myndin er saga af röð barna morð sem eru að verða í Berlín. The police are determined to catch

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

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While it may not be on classic film lists, I love The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (tengja hlekkur). It is an adaptation of the novel (tengja hlekkur) með sama nafni, skrifað af Baroness 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

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The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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What happens is the first commercially successful art film (tengja hlekkur). 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

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