Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 en 1949.
Op juli 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (affiliate link). In deze 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.
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. In 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, The Bat Whispers,
Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) (affiliate link) is one of the five Sherlock Holmes films starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adapted the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear but added to the story to give Professor Moriarty and Col. Sebastian Moran roles in the story. A significant portion of the movie is the retelling
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
Roland V. West kocht de rechten en regisseerde The Bat (1926) (affiliate link), een van de eerste “oud donker huis” mysteries voor United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson was de cameraman voor zowel deze film en The Old Dark House (1932), die vergelijkbaar zijn expressionistische elementen te delen. Beide films zijn in grote herenhuizen, which have seen better days. The key
Het avontuur van Sherlock Holmes (1939) is de tweede en laatste van de twee Sherlock Holmes films van Twentieth-Century Fox in 1939. Basil Rathbone sterren als Sherlock Holmes en Nigel Bruce speelt Dr. Watson. De film speelt zich af in 1894 en Holmes is weer nastreven Professor Moriarty, gespeeld door George Zucco. Moriarty tells Holmes after once again escaping
(I have included Chapter 4 from my unpublished book, German Expressionism and The Cat and the Canary.)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
Op mei 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate link) werd uitgebracht in Berlijn, Duitsland. Naast het feit dat op de meeste lijsten voor de top 100 films aller tijden, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). De film is het verhaal van een reeks kind moorden die plaatsvinden in Berlijn. The police are determined to catch
Stan Laurel en Oliver Hardy ster in een van mijn favoriete vakantie films, Babe in Toyland (affiliate link) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Het wordt normaal weergegeven rond Thanksgiving. Deze film heeft Stan Laurel als Stannie Dum en Oliver Hardy als Ollie Dee, die proberen te helpen Moeder Peep, the little old women in the shoe. Barnaby,
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