The Sphinx (1933) LIONEL ATWILL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Stars: Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton
Director: Phil Rosen
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
Oh I am learning so much about the American psyche through these old B&W Movies. Nothing seems to change, just to complicate.
83% Americans have Englands psyche but the rest come in all shapes and sizes and psyches and Hollywood collected them all
Old movies have taste class and respect for young viewers.
Oooh this is a real goodie of a movie!! I love it!!
THANK YOU PIZZAFLIX for this wonderful movie!! I was hooked from beginning to end!
Sheila Terry was contracted with Warner Bros.; Monogram managed to get her loaned for Phil Rosen.
She was only 23 when she co-starred in The Sphinx, and got to work with a few rising stars of the era,
such as John Wayne in 3 of his pre-code westerns: Haunted Gold (1932); 'Neath the Arizona Skies and
The Lawless Frontier (both released in 1934). But, although she could've gone far, Sheila didn't.
Her final role was in I Demand Payment (1938); and the year before it was released, Terry had decided
to retire from acting, in part because of the death of her husband. She was unable to find any more
work after that.
Born on March 5th, 1910 -- as Kay Clark -- she committed suicide in January 19th, 1957; less than two
months before she would've turned 46.
Thanks for detailed info! May the Sauce be with you.
Oh how interesting.......& terribly tragic..why??
(thank you wikipedia)
Love Lionel Atwill !!!! So Many Great Films an Roles
Thanks Pizza Flix for another good movie.
If Lionel Atwill is in it, it's good!
Luis Alberni pulled the crowds even more. More than people these days know.
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I didn't realize until I looked up the cast credits that "Werner" was Paul Fix, who played the town marshal on THE RIFLEMAN tv series. And this is the third US film from the 1930s that I've watched on YT in the past six months that had the same piece of deadly jewelry!
Oh how about that!
really good movie..loved the surprise ending..
The surprise ending that the person who commented above you has blown wide open?
I understand that actors in these programmers weren't as obsessed with preparing for a role and truly getting into character as say, Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull but Lionel doesn't even TRY to fake hand signing. At least pretend and look like you know what you're doing instead of looking like you're clueless and miscast.
I take back what I just said.
He DID just try faking hand signing and he looked even MORE clueless and miscast.
He signs like he's never even HEARD of signing, let alone SEEN it before.
I know it's just a cheap programmer, but I would think the actor would prepare a LITTLE for the role.
This was the laziest performance I've ever seen. Even Bernie in Weekend with Bernie gave a livelier performance.
They might as well have used a mannequin.
Lionel Atwill had SERIOUS presence! I could almost see Mads Mikkelsen playing him in a movie of Atwill's sex scandal. It's no consolation, but Atwill could have been a SERIOUS horror force in the '40s and '50s!
Pretty good flick, basic but fun. Surprise ending. Atwell is as always regal, hokey.
Good movie. There was a remake about 10 years later with the actor who played Perry White -from Superman TV show - as the killer.
Remade as The Phantom Killer with Mantan Moreland.
I like Mantan Moreland in any film. He's a joy to watch
This is a movie, Thank You
Wow, quite a few of these movies use similar versions of that opening music :)
Cool, which others. Planning to use it in my news story search for people that knew my papa a star in this, Luis Alberni.
Fun to watch!
And another WINNER!
GREAT!!
Seriously, the least they could have done was to teach poor Lionel genuine signing. The way he flips his hands about is silly!
Thank you
The 3rd detective is George "Gabby" Hayes w/o the beard.
At 19:20 Mr. Breene is no more using hand language than the "the man in the moon!" He is making it up as he goes along.
Grand flick
classic murder plot with no cursing is wonderful for "young viewers" we're in post code era where strippers like in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'The Wiz' get a G rating. drinking and smoking? that's G rating every time obviously. and on screen violence including blade and gun murders get a PG rating.
no cursing so we're good. 😂
I love old movies but this one was really stupid; bad script.
Regardless of my opinion, i thank you for the upload @PizzaFlix
I finally figured out why I loved this movie, NO FUCKIN MUSIC IN YOUR FACE. So many movies are ruined cause of a thousand violins. Like in that movie with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins where his Indian wife got shot by a stray bullet during the other failed war against alcohol.
Not bad .... Brazil Jul 08, 2019
This movie is a remake of another film with much the same plot. The ladies in these old movies are so pretty.
This is the original version.
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when they see the Egyptian curse written on my Egyptian tomb my Egyptian tomb is hidden in
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What’s your name; Luigi Bacciagaluppa ‘classic’ I think or hope I spelled it correctly 🙄🥴
Just say No to hourglass Men's suits.
That was a very young Gabby Hayes at 1:02:15 before he had all his healthy teeth pulled out he figured he would be acting as n old man lol just saying
The data file for this movie wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sphinx_%281933_film%29?wprov=sfla1
The smart-aleck newspaper men in these old films are insufferable. I wonder what sociological role they played for audiences then. This is another one that should be thrown into the bay and taken out with the tide.
I hate this sinister opening credits music, because it's the intro to so many awful films.
I dislike weak predictable cheese, so thumbs down on this tripe.