It may be hard for us today to imagine what moviegoers in the 1920s must have felt when they watched their first talkies in the cinemas. By now, there have been a number of movies describing just this peculiar sensation. But what the audience must have experienced when suddenly their movie stars uttered words could […]
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Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood by Ron Backer (2012)
There was a time when mystery stories were not written for the screen exclusively but were meant to be published and read by an audience. These texts, however, were the foundations for almost all the major mystery series listed in Backer’s book; as were some of the best film noir movies prior to Hollywood’s remodeling […]