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 in Scrooge (1935)

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Scrooge (1935) is Twickenham Studios version of the Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. Seymour Hicks plays Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly owner of a London business. He employs an assistant named Bob Cratchit. Scrooge will eventually meet three ghosts on Christmas Eve, 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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What happens is the first commercially successful art film. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. Initium cinematographici Germanici renovationis in annis 1920 notavit Motus Germanicus Motus in arte Germanica valde movit hunc cinematographicum.. Expressionist pictores traxit aedificia prona imparibus angulis, oddly shaped furniture,

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