The Fat Man (1951)

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Since the beginning of commercial film making, production companies are always looking for new content. Film companies have always used popular books as a source of content and inspiration. Since the 1950s, popular television shows provided film adaptations and inspiration. In the early days of talking films, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and Abner, Jack Benny,

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Seymour Hicks di Gober (1935)

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Orang kikir (1935) adalah versi Twickenham Studios dari Charles Dickens’ klasik, A Christmas Carol. Seymour Hicks memainkan Ebenezer Scrooge, pemilik kikir dari bisnis London. Dia mempekerjakan seorang asisten bernama Bob Cratchit. Gober akhirnya akan memenuhi tiga hantu di malam Natal, who will cause a miraculous change in Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and his assistant. Seymour Hicks was born

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The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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Apa yang terjadi adalah film seni yang sukses secara komersial pertama. Kabinet Dr. Karnaval (1920) dirilis pada bulan Januari 1920 menjadi sensasi Jerman dan internasional. It marked the beginning of the German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist painters drew buildings sloped at odd angles, oddly shaped furniture,

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Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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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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