Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)

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Sur Juillet 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (affiliate link). Dans ce film, 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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Corsair (1931)

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Roland V. West directed fourteen films in his career. Critics consider three of his films to be excellent. West directed the silent thriller The Bat in 1926. West directed his most acclaimed film, Alibi (1929), which resulted in an Oscar nomination for his friend Chester Morris. Dans 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, Les Murmures Bat,

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Juve vs. Fantomas (1913)

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Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation (affiliate link) of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre plays the role of Fantomas and his many aliases. Edmund Breon portrays Inspector Juve. George Melchior plays the role of Jerome Fandor, a young journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and

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La chauve-souris (1926)

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Roland V. Ouest a acheté les droits et réalisé The Bat (1926) (affiliate link), l'un des premiers “vieille maison sombre” mystères pour United Artist dans 1926. Arthur Edeson était le directeur de la photographie à la fois pour ce film et The Dark House Vieux (1932), qui partager des éléments expressionnistes similaires. Les deux films sont dans de grandes demeures, which have seen better days. The key

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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(I have included Chapter 4 from my unpublished book, German Expressionism and The Cat and the Canary.)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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Sur mai 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate link) a été publié à Berlin, Allemagne. En plus d'être sur la plupart des listes pour le haut 100 films de tous les temps, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Le film est l'histoire d'une série de meurtres d'enfants qui se produisent à Berlin. The police are determined to catch

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Laurel et Hardy dans Babes in Toyland (1934)

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Stan Laurel et Oliver Hardy tiennent le premier rôle dans un de mes films préférés de vacances, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Il est normalement représenté autour de Thanksgiving. Ce film met en scène Stan Laurel que Stannie Dum et Oliver Hardy comme Ollie Dee, qui tentent d'aider la mère Pipe, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby,

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Max Linder Made Pathe’ Film

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Max Linder (1883-1925) built the Pathe’ Film Studio in the early 1900s. Linder’s comedy influenced Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Linder is largely unknown today because his biggest film successes were in the 1910s. Most of his films are considered lost. Film fans today have the benefit of resources like the Internet Archive, which has a number of

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