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Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 and 1949.
Juli 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (affiliate link). I denne filmen, 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. I 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 spiller rollen som Fantomas og hans mange aliaser. Edmund Breon skildrer Inspektør Juve. George Melchior spiller rollen Jerome Fandor, en ung journalist, som bistår Juve i sine undersøkelser av Fantomas. Juve and
Roland V. West kjøpte rettighetene og regissert The Bat (1926) (affiliate link), en av den første “gamle mørke huset” mysterier for United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson var filmfotograf for både denne filmen og The Old Mørk Hus (1932), som deler lignende ekspresjonistiske elementer. Begge filmene er satt i store herskapshus, which have seen better days. The key
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (1939) er den andre og siste av de to Sherlock Holmes filmer laget av Twentieth-Century Fox i 1939. Basil Rathbone stjerner som Sherlock Holmes og Nigel Bruce spiller Dr. Watson. Filmen er satt i 1894 og Holmes er igjen forfølge Professor Moriarty, spilt av 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(I have included Chapter 4 from my unpublished book, German Expressionism and The Cat and the Canary.)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
Mai 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate link) ble utgitt i Berlin, Tyskland. Foruten å være på de fleste lister for toppen 100 filmer av all tid, Fritz Lang mente hans fineste film var M (1931). Filmen er historien om en serie av barne mord som er forekommende i Berlin. The police are determined to catch
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,
Max Linder (1883-1925) bygde Pathé 'Film Studio i 1900. Linder’s comedy influenced Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd og 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