Richard Basehart was an incredible actor in his prime and he looked much younger than his actual age (33-34 years of age) in HWBN.
"The Advenures of Sherlock Holmes" was the second feature film and the last produced as a period picture. Once the series was taken over by Universal, the movies were updated to contemporary times.
I often wondered where Werker stopped filming and Mann stepped in? Werker definitely had directorial chops of his own. "Shock" (another film that slipped into the public domain) was intended as a "B" picture, but performed so strongly that 20th Century Fox was able to sell it as an "A."
When Stanley Kubrick was working as a photographer, one of his arresting pictures was of the marquee at the former State/Lake Theater in downtown Chicago (immediately across the street from the iconic Chicago Theater). The film playing at the theater was "HE WALKED BY NIGHT." With the neon lights and the dark streets, the magazine photo was as noir as hell.
The State/Lake Theater was named for the nearest street intersection. It was repurposed for radio and television studios once the theater closed. It was the long time home of WLS 890 AM and WLS (ABC) Channel 7. The radio station moved to a new location in 2017.
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