Stars: Hal Skelly, Rose Hobart, Harry T. Morey Director: Arthur Hoerl When the police fail to find the thieves responsible for a bank robbery, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own!
Rose Hobart is absolutely lovely. I'd never seen or heard of her before this. I would never forget that genuine smile or her complete composure, the camera can stay on her for ages...nothin' left to do but smile smile smile.
Most excellent! Probably the single part that will make it difficult for people these days to _like_ it is the absence of any music. That places it more completely in the realm of 'theater' - plus, it looks like it could have mostly been filmed in one. Finding a film like this is refreshing - thank you for posting it!
Thank you so for rendering this in its original aspect ratio! Rendering 4:3 into 16:9, as is so often done with vintage films like this, is an act of desecration rather than preservation and makes them headache-inducing and unwatchable.
"I hope you find sand in your spinach." "I'm so broke I couldn't even write home for money.' Almost as good as the Mae West one-liners only these are more innocent.
The character of The Shadow which is issued from the Dark's Universe edition which is also entitled to the Invisible man: the Shadow has greatly contributed to the creation of the character of BATMAN: from which the writers and draughtsmen inspired much of the latter for his creation and are universe.
Opening scene-man gets shot, guy standing next to him looks around and walks on in through the gate. I was waiting to hear, Cartman say, "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"
Were people a lot shorter back then? I’ve noticed that the reports of men’s heights in these older films were extremely shorter than what is normal today (in the USA)... (5 foot, 4 inches?) ~ I’m female at 5 foot, 7 inches. Must be the additives & GMO’s in our food! Love Hal Skelly! Thx!
Yes every generation get taller and wider and that means more materials for shirts, trousers, shoes etc and more acreage to grow it and that means more water etc👋
Lamont Cranston was the true identity of the Shadow in the radio show. In the pulp magazines Cranston was just one of many disguises the Shadow used. In this case, it usually gave him access to the Cobalt Club where rich thieves would hang out. His true identity was Kent Allard, a WWI spy.
The Shadow radio show, which had Lamont Cranston as The Shadow, didn't come out until 1937. This movie must be loosely based upon The Shadow pulp magazines in which the true identity of The Shadow is mentioned only twice. His true identity was Kent Allard, WW I spy and aviator but he is a master of disguise and assumes different characters like Cranston or Fritz, the janitor at police headquarters.
Maybe there is a good movie 🍿 struggling to get out from under the cheesey acting and the hackneyed dialogue, not to mention the amateurish crime scene procedure, but I am not going to stick around to find out.
Even today most film stars are short stature so as in the 30's till present day they had and have to match all the other actors and actresses not to overshadow the Hero or Heroin players !!!!! HA HA HA HA. Nordic's and European Celtic's are tall but in Africa there are tall tribes as in the Indo Chinese Continent are very tall and short folk's aswell.Indigenous USA natives had sometall people but the short Europeans are the Alpine's,Gauls,Anglo=Saxons,Britains, this is a general list but yes the people were generally shorter because they were developing their societies quicker than other sizes probably the Ancient civilisations were shorter people? BUT Hollywood is the worst measure to use for peoples hights HA HA HA.Still shorter fighter pilots were and are always more successfull than taller one's ! Just check this out it is true.So Hollywood take note.All Be Blessed
Reflex time given all parameters equal are a matter of the chemical transmission along the nerve cells. Hence, the longer the nerve the slower the reaction time. So smaller people should have faster response barring other physiological conditions.
I very much appreciate most of your posts, and thank you for them. But this movie is the exception. There is NO Shadow, there are NO laughs, the writing is abysmal, Hal Skelly is gratingly, super-annoying, and the movie is 63 minutes too long. Thumbs down.
It was annoying how he kept leaning hard toward Ruth when he first met her at her typewriter. I wonder how many guys emulated that, thinking it was clever, only to get slapped.
