Tag: Feature Films

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 hafði marga óvini, en mesta ráðgáta fyrir Vance er hvernig Coe var myrtur í læst herbergi,,en,Vance sótti hundur sýning,,en,George Wiggins sótti rannsókn hans fyrir morðið á St,,en,Louis Police Officer Louis Schnarr í júní,,en,Nonchalantly tyggigúmmí,,en,ára Wiggins virtist algerlega ómeðvituð alvarleika rannsókninni,,en,Wiggins flytja sekur um morðið á von á að fá,,en,Dómari WITHROW var miðað dauða,,en,Lewis sigraði Joe Stetcher fyrir hans Heimur Heavyweight Glíma Championship,,en,Professional glíma var sett á svið sýningu um,,en,svo var sterk tilfinningar milli manna að passa kann að hafa verið,,en,eða lögmæt passa þar sem Lewis tók beltið,,en,Hvort niðurstöðu leiksins,,en,The Most Famous lögmæt glíma Matches í sagnfræði,,en. Vance mætti ​​á hundasýningu með Coe og hans

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Á 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

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Being both a fan and film historian, I was aware of Sunset Blvd.‘s reputation in film circles. Billy Wilder’s 1950 film tells the sad story of a forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond. William Holden is a screen writer, who stumbles upon her crumbling mansion and agrees to help fix her screenplay. Norma believes the screenplay will lead to a

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Also known at The Sleeping Cardinal, Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour (1931) is the first Sherlock Holmes film starring Arthur Wontner in the title role. The film concerns a young man, who has been cheating at bridge to regain his lost wealth. Professor Moriarty uses the information in an attempt to blackmail the young man Ronald Adair, portrayed by Leslie Perrins.

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Mars 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau út Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu var aðlögun Murnau er af Dracula skáldsögu eftir 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. The

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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

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Mig langaði að skrifa um einn af uppáhalds bíó minn, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, skrifað af Baroness Orczy. Myndin (tengja hlekkur) varðar enskan jafnaldra, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. Sagan er flókin vegna þess að jafnaldri er giftur

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Janúar 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the

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Á September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Myndin (tengja hlekkur) segir sögu liðþjálfa 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. Myndin byrjar á andstæðu sunnudagskirkju og guðsþjónustu

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The Canary Murder Case (1929) var upphaflega skot sem þögul kvikmynd. Þó, Paramount Studio framkvæmdastjóri hélt að það væri betra sem talandi mynd. Stúdíó seinkað út fyrr en þeir gætu að bæta hljóði við kvikmynd. The samlagning af hljóð var ekki án viðfangsefni hennar. Því miður, einn af helstu stjörnum myndarinnar, Louise Brooks, had

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