Cleopatra - Classic Movie In Color

Our classic movie pick for today is Cleopatra.  A 1945 movie redone in color.  Here is the information on this movie.

Directed by Gabriel Pascal
Produced by Gabriel Pascal
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Starring Claude Rains
Vivien Leigh
Cinematography Jack Hildyard
Release date(s) 1945
Running time 123 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected, since Cleopatra is a rare woman who is bright as well as beautiful. And for Cleopatra, a friendly relationship with the most powerful man in the world may pay dividends in the future.

Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) confronts Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Crossing - George Washington and the American Revolution, Movie

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George Washington (Photo credit: cliff1066™)

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British Intelligence (1940) Classic Movie

In 1917 London, elusive German spy Frantz Strendler regularly accesses crucial British military information and relays it to the German government, with disastrous results for the British on the front lines. British intelligence subsequently scrambles to uncover the master spy, who is hard at work to expand his own reach.

The film features Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay.

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English: L. to R. : Marjorie Reynolds, Boris Karloff (seated), Raymond Hatton & Grant Withers in Doomed to Die - cropped screenshot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Charlie Chan At The Olympics - Classic Movie

Our classic movie feature for Friday is Charlie Chan at the Olympics.  Featuring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.  Warner Oland was in more Charlie Chan movies than any other actor that we have been able to determine and our favorite in the part.

Ace Chinese detective Charlie Chan and his son Lee who is an Olympic swimmer at the 1936 Summer Olympics face murder, intrigue and mystery!

When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to the current summer Olympic games in Berlin, where myriad spies, enemy agents, and hard-core criminals are ruthlessly pursuing it in order to sell it to another government. Charlie's son Lee, a member of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, is on hand to help his father recover the device and solve the mystery!

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Warner Oland, a Swedish American Actor portraying Charlie Chan, a Chinese Hawaiian detective. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Ghost Train - Classic Movies On GVLN

The Ghost Train.  From 1941.

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor.

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English: A Ghost Train RPSI 3 "Harvey" approaching Downpatrick Station with the last Santa steam train of the year. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Sherlock Homles - Pearl of Death Movie

Sherlock Holmes in the Pearl of Death.  Classic Sunday Movie.

The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the ninth of fourteen such films the pair made. The story is loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" but features some additions, such as Evelyn Ankers as an accomplice of the villain, played by Miles Mander, and Rondo Hatton as a brutal killer.
When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes' show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson
Evelyn Ankers as Naomi Drake
Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade
Miles Mander as Giles Conover
Ian Wolfe as Amos Hodder
Charles Francis as Digby
Holmes Herbert as James Goodram
Richard Nugent as Bates
Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hudson
Rondo Hatton as The Creeper
Wilson Benge as Second Ship's Steward
Billy Bevan as Constable
Harry Cording as George Gelder
Al Ferguson as Security Guard
Colin Kenny as Security Guard
Connie Leon as Ellen Carey
John Merkyl as Doctor Julien Boncourt
Leyland Hodgson as Customs Officer
Lillian Bronson as Harker's Housekeeper
Harold De Becker as Boss
Leslie Denison as Police Sergeant Murdock
J.W. Austin as Police Sergeant Bleeker
Arthur Mulliner as Thomas Sandeford
Arthur Stenning as First Ship's Steward
Eric Wilton as Conover's Chauffeur
Charles Knight as Bearded Man
Audrey Manners as Body of Teacher
Directed by Roy William Neill
Produced by Howard Benedict
Written by Bertram Millhauser

English: Photograph of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collection. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Sunday Classic Movie - Captain Kidd

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