While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The author of more th...
The Cinema Murder is a silent movie of 1919 starring Marion Davies, adopted from the 1917 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Critics of the time, especially those of Variety Magazine, 14 Jan 1920, mentioned that this particular movie, which opened at the...
Byline: NAOMI AOKI, STAFF WRITER CHESAPEAKE -- One of two brothers charged with murder and robbery in the shooting death of cinema manager Mark E. Pickrel pleaded guilty Thursday in Circuit Court. Travis Marron, 17, was convicted of first degree murder, robbery...
British film comedy is usually thought of as cosy; an old cardigan you can't bear to be parted from, no matter the stains, rips and moth holes. Ealing and all that, you know. Yet Ealing had a flip-side; The Man in the White...
