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Posts about feature films.
Arthur Wontner é indiscutivelmente o melhor retratista filme de Sherlock Holmes. Sua excursão quinto e último como Holmes em Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). O filme foi lançado no Reino Unido em 1937 mas não foi lançado na América até janeiro 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
O triunfo de Sherlock Holmes (1935) é um dos cinco filmes de Sherlock Holmes, estrelado por Arthur Wontner como Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adaptou o romance Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear, mas acrescentou à história para dar Professor Moriarty e Col. Papéis Sebastian Moran na história. Uma parte significativa do filme é a recontagem de
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 released Appointment with Danger (link de afiliado) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
In the second surviving Sherlock Holmes film (link de afiliado) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, dois criminosos escaparam da prisão. Eles estão buscando a vingança sobre os homens, que dupla atravessou um dos criminosos, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls disse dois dos guardas de sua prisão, onde uma grande fortuna estava escondido. The wardens find the treasure, have a
Também conhecido no The Cardinal Dormir, Sherlock Holmes’ Hora Fatal (1931) é o primeiro filme Sherlock Holmes, estrelado por Arthur Wontner no papel-título. O filme trata de um homem jovem, que tem vindo a fazer batota na ponte para recuperar sua fortuna perdida. Professor Moriarty uses the information in an attempt to blackmail the young man Ronald Adair, portrayed by Leslie Perrins.
Roland V. Ocidente comprou os direitos e dirigiu The Bat (1926), um dos primeiros “velha casa escura” mistérios para United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson foi o diretor de fotografia, tanto para este filme e The Old Dark Casa (1932), que compartilham elementos expressionistas semelhantes. Ambos os filmes são definidas em grandes mansões, which have seen better days. The key to the
Em setembro de 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). O filme (link 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) estrelando
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 attended a dog show with Coe and his
Em 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