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Arthur Wontner est arguably melius film portrayer Sherlock Holmes. Quinta et postrema ejus sicut Holmes in Excursiuncula quod homicidium ad Baskervilles (1937). Mauris erat privatus in Britanniarum Regnum 1937 sed non dimisit in America, mense Januario, 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Triumphus 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. A significant portio elit est narrantem
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 dimissi nominatio cum Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 sed eam in Civitatibus Foederatis non dimisit
In secundo superstes Sherlock Holmes film (affiliate link) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, alii duo nequam cum carcere euasisset. Quaerunt hominum ulcisci, qui transierunt inter duo nequam cum eo, Jonathan rivosque desiderat,. Rivosque desiderat, nuntiavit duobus in custodia sua de carcere magna fortuna, et absconditus est. The wardens find the treasure, habere *
Also known at The Sleeping Cardinal, Sherlock Holmes’ Venere fata, (1931) Arthur Wontner primus in titulo munus movendi starring Holmes. Film de puero, qui in ponte lucretur opes recuperare amissam. Professor Moriarty utitur in notitia puer conatus ad INTERMINOR Ronald Adair, by depicta Perrins.
Roland V. West ius mercatus et erit vobis directa (1926), unus ex primis “senex in domo tenebris” Artist occultatum in Iunctus 1926. Erat enim et hoc film cinematographer Edeson Cornelius Fuscus, et antiquus dierum Domus (1932), quae communicant in eadem elementa Expressionist. Et magna in membrana sunt mansiones, which have seen better days. The key to the
September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Film (affiliate link) 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 comitatus est canis spectaculum cum Coe et his
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