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Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 och 1949.
På Juli 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (affiliate länk). I denna 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. I 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, The Bat Whispers,
Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) (affiliate länk) 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 länk) of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre spelar rollen som Fantomas och hans många alias. Edmund Breon porträtterar inspektör Juve. George Melchior spelar rollen av Jerome Fandor, en ung journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and
Roland V. West köpt rättigheterna och regisserade The Bat (1926) (affiliate länk), ett av de första “gamla mörka hus” mysterier för United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson var filmfotograf för både denna film och den gamla mörka hus (1932), som har liknande expressionistiska element. Båda filmerna anges i stora herrgårdar, som har sett bättre dagar. Nyckeln
Affärsföretag av Sherlock Holmes (1939) är den andra och sista av de två Sherlock Holmes filmer gjorda av Twentieth-Century Fox i 1939. Basil Rathbone stjärnor som Sherlock Holmes och Nigel Bruce spelar Dr. Watson. Filmen är inställd på 1894 and Holmes is once again pursuing Professor Moriarty, played by 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(I have included Chapter 4 from my unpublished book, German Expressionism and The Cat and the Canary.)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
På maj 11, 1931, Fritz Lang’s classic film M (affiliate länk) släpptes i Berlin, Tyskland. Förutom att vara på de flesta listor för toppen 100 filmer genom tiderna, Fritz Lang believed his finest film was M (1931). Filmen är berättelsen om en serie barnamord som uppstår i Berlin. The police are determined to catch
Stan Laurel och Oliver Hardy stjärnan i en av mina favorit semesterfilmer, Babe in Toyland (affiliate länk) or March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Det är normalt visas runt Thanksgiving. Denna film har Stan Laurel som Stannie Dum och Oliver Hardy som Ollie Dee, som försöker hjälpa Moder Peep, de små gummorna i skon. Barnaby,
Max Linder (1883-1925) byggde Pathe "Film Studio i början av 1900. Linder’s comedy influenced Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd och 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