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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 a participat la o expoziție câine cu Coe și ai lui
Septembrie 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
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
De asemenea, cunoscut sub numele de The Sleeping Cardinalul, Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal ore (1931) este primul film Sherlock Holmes a jucat Arthur Wontner în rolul principal. Filmul se referă la un bărbat tânăr, care a fost inselat la pod pentru a recâștiga pierdut averea sa. Professor Moriarty uses the information in an attempt to blackmail the young man Ronald Adair, portrayed by Leslie Perrins.
La martie 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau released Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau neglijat să cumpere drepturile pentru a filma povestea din averea lui Stoker, care aproape a dus la acest film a fost pierdut de film telespectatori. Văduva lui Stoker dat in judecata cu succes Murnau și compania germană de film care a produs film. The
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
Am vrut să scriu despre unul dintre filmele mele preferate, Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, scris de Baroness Orczy. Filmul (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
Ianuarie 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 stele. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Septembrie 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Filmul (affiliate link) spune povestea sergentului 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. Filmul începe cu contrastul dintre slujba bisericii de duminică și
The Canary Murder Case (1929) was originally shot as a silent film. Totuși, the Paramount Studio executive thought it would be better as a talking picture. The studio delayed the release until they could add sound to the film. The addition of sound was not without its challenges. Din păcate, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, avut