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Posts about feature films.
H.G. Wells wrote the story of Things to Come, which was turned into a film in 1936. The film opens during Christmas 1940 in Everytown (obviously London) right before the outbreak of war. The war lasts almost thirty years before “the Airmen” led by John Cabal, a former resident of Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the remaining war
Stan Laurel og Oliver Hardy stjerne i en av mine favoritt ferie filmer, Babe i Toyland (affiliate link) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Det er normalt vist rundt Thanksgiving. This film features Stan Laurel as Stannie Dum and Oliver Hardy as Ollie Dee, som prøver å hjelpe Mother Peep, de små gamle kvinner i skoen. Barnaby, the wicked
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) released After The Thin Man (1936), the sequel to the popular Thin Man (1934), on Christmas Day 1936. The film is one of 14 films William Powell and Myrna Loy made together. Powell and Loy play Dashiell Hammet’s characters Nick and Nora Charles respectively. Nick Charles formerly worked as a private detective before marrying the wealthy heiress Nora.
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
Hva skjer er den første kommersielt vellykkede kunstfilm. The Cabinet of Dr.. Caligari (1920) ble utgitt i januar 1920 bli en tysk og internasjonal sensasjon. Det markerte begynnelsen på den tyske filmgjenopplivingen på 1920-tallet Den tyske ekspresjonistiske bevegelsen i tysk kunst påvirket denne filmen sterkt.. Ekspresjonistiske malere tegnet bygninger med skrånende vinkler, oddly shaped furniture,