Thursday, February 13, 2025

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3, eps 21-29


Episode 21 - The photographer and the undertaker

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Description: Two professional killers with the same employer find out that each has the other as his next target.

Episode 22 - Thou still unravished bride
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Description: When an embezzling engineer is demoted and his brother takes over his former position, he makes plans to kill him.

Episode 23 - Completely foolproof
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Description: Joe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle. Foyle says he was hired by Joe's wife Lisa. Joe visits his girlfriend Anna, and discovers a bug in her telephone, and that their love letters were seized. Lisa wants a divorce, but also wants a disproportionate settlement, including 75% of the Brisson Land Development Company. Lisa's young boyfriend, racetrack gambler Bobby Davenport, will lose his inherited property if Joe calls in Bobby's debt. Joe couldn't hire Foyle to murder his wife, but he convinces Bobby to do it while Joe is on a sea cruise to London. Joe calls Lisa from the ship, and listens as Bobby plugs her. Then Joe has a guest...

Episode 24 - Power of attorney
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Description: A clever con man makes a living by preying on women by having them invest their life savings into non-existent stocks.

Episode 25 - The world's oldest motive
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Description: A philandering husband decides to improve his situation by having his overweight and frumpy wife killed. When he tells his girlfriend about the plan, she is outraged, and he desperately tries to stop the murder.

Episode 26 - The monkey's paw - a retelling
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Description: A businessman desperate for a change in his fortunes tests the power of a gypsy woman's monkey-paw charm which is said to grant its holder three wishes. His son suffers the consequences.

Episode 27 - The second wife
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Description: A mail-order bride begins to believe her husband killed his first wife and wants to kill her as well.

Episode 28 - Night fever
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Description: A handsome young thief, wounded by police in a robbery that left a young rookie cop dead, is hospitalized under tight security. After middle-aged spinster Nurse Ellen Hatch takes charge of his care, he tries to sweet-talk her into believing that he is innocent of the crime and contends the vindictive police are victimizing him and that he won't make it to trial alive if they have their way. As the police relent somewhat under the influence of her strict, no-nonsense attitude, the young thief develops a personal relationship with her. As she reluctantly succumbs to his romantic advances, the convalescing prisoner tries to cajole her into helping him escape.

Episode 29 - Off season
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Description: A trigger-happy ex-cop gets a job as an unarmed deputy, but still has some very violent tendencies.

Please be aware they are encoded using High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), known as H.265 and may require latest video player software/hardware for proper playback.

Download link (torrent file)

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Monday, February 3, 2025

The Virginian (1962-1963) - Season 1, episodes 11-20



Episode 11 - The devil's children

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Description: Tabby McCallum, beautiful but cruel teenage daughter of Tucker McCallum, is banned by the Virginian from Shiloh after she kills a steer by "mistake". With the unwitting help of her fiancé, Dan Flood, Tabby sets off a tragic set of events.

Episode 12 - 50 days to Moose Jaw
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Description: An old cowhand and a "greenhorn" join the Shiloh hands for a cattle drive to Moose Jaw, Canada. The old and young cowhand plan a future of running cattle together. The story culminates with a sheriff looking for one of the two new friends.

Episode 13 - The accomplice
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Description: An old maid bank teller who decides it is time to provide for herself identifies Trampas as a bank robber and murderer in order to extort $10,000 from the actual thief. The Virginian is the only thing between Trampas and the hangman's noose.

Episode 14 - The man from the sea
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Description: A seaman moving to Wyoming meets twin sisters traveling there with Trampas. When he takes an interest in one of them, she makes a tragic request of him that reveals not only to him but Judge Garth the true nature of the twins relationship.

Episode 15 - Duel at Shiloh
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Description: A timid easterner and his wife arrive in Medicine Bow looking for a job as a teacher. Two escaped convicts come through Medicine Bow taking the new teacher, his wife, and students hostage while The Virginian is the temporary sheriff.

Episode 16 - The exiles
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Description: The Fourth of July finds Judge Garth, Steve and Trampas in Casper, Wyoming to pick up a bed for Betsy. The Judge meets a friend wrestling in a title match and Steve becomes infatuated with a girl. Intrigue follows.

Episode 17 - The judgment
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Description: Garth recalls his early days as a judge in Medicine Bow in one particularly dangerous murder case. The family of the man convicted tries to intimidate the residents into having Garth overturn the conviction putting him a lonely position.

Episode 18 - Say goodbye to all that
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Description: An American black bear named Moses brings to the surface the lack of respect a father has for his son. When the father is paralyzed in a fight with Trampas, he goads the son into fighting a duel with Trampas for revenge. Trampas refuses it, but cannot ignore it.

Episode 19 - The man who couldn't die
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Description: Garth trails a woman to San Francisco who he believes is part of a con game involving a railroad deal. Garth kills a man who he believes to be a part of it. However, when no body can be found, he and others start to question his sanity.

Episode 20 - If you have tears
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Description: A friend has been framed for the murder of a woman's husband in Montana. The Virginian and Trampas go there to investigate the charge as they believe their friend who says he is innocent even though he is known to them as a womanizer.


Video and audio information (average):

Video : 3.40 GB, 6463 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1456x1080 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 198 MB, 368 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC, CBR


Download link (torrent file)

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Sunday, January 26, 2025

The thirteenth hour (1947), The return of the Whistler (1948) - The Whistler movie collection - little known B-film film noir collection



Rating 6.4/10 + 6.3/10
Runtime: 128 min (66/62)
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Clemens/D. Ross Lederman
IMDb Link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039127/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040733/

Cast

Richard Dix ... Steve Reynolds (The thirteenth hour)
Karen Morley ... Eileen Blair (The thirteenth hour)
John Kellogg ... Charlie Cook (The thirteenth hour)
Jim Bannon ... Jerry Mason (The thirteenth hour)
Regis Toomey ... Don Parker (The thirteenth hour)
Michael Duane ... Theodore Anthony 'Ted' Nichols (The return of the Whistler)
Lenore Aubert ... Alice Dupres Barkley (The return of the Whistler)
Richard Lane ... Gaylord Traynor (The return of the Whistler)
James Cardwell ... Charlie Barkley (The return of the Whistler)
Ann Shoemaker ... Mrs. Barkley (The return of the Whistler)
Sarah Padden ... Mrs. Hulskamp (The return of the Whistler)

Description: The thirteenth hour (1947) - Truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm, and shortly thereafter is slugged by a masked assailant who steals the truck he is driving. The assailant runs down a policeman and leaves other clues pointing to Reynolds as the cop killer. With only a glove, with diamonds stuck in the thumb, as a clue, and while evading the police and other characters after him and the diamonds, Reynolds needs to run down the guilty party and clear himself.

The return of the Whistler (1948) - On the eve of his marriage, a young man's fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiance's dead ex-husband and his wealthy, corrupt family.


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Download links (torrent files):

https://workupload.com/file/neQVYEWnpRg

https://workupload.com/file/jKkGDcK8qNr


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.40 GB, 3041 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 115/90 MB (main/commentary), 244/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/CBR

Video : 1.59 GB, 3635 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 112 MB, 249 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) closed captions embedded in both movies, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Greek, posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information

The thirteenth hour contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Eloise Ross. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)

Friday, January 17, 2025

Fixed bayonets! (1951) - little known war drama directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton and Craig Hill

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043540/

Cast

Richard Basehart ... Cpl. Denno
Gene Evans ... Sgt. Rock
Michael O'Shea ... Sgt. Lonergan
Richard Hylton ... Medic John Wheeler
Craig Hill ... Lt. Gibbs
Skip Homeier ... Whitey

Description: During the Korean War, an entire division of soldiers is forced to withdraw down a mountain, with a few dozen troops left behind to fend off enemy forces. One of the platoon members, Corp. Denno, is reluctant to end the life of another person, but, as soldier after soldier falls, he must learn both how to kill and how to act as a commanding officer. In addition to facing enemy troops, Denno and his remaining men have to contend with an icy descent down treacherous terrain.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/BQxqHj5SeAt


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.56 GB, 3975 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 766x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 70/57 MB (main/commentary), 106/87 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, commentary on Track 2)

Saturday, January 11, 2025

The tall target (1951) - little known thriller directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou and Marshall Thompson

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 78 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Anthony Mann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044105/

Cast

Dick Powell ... John Kennedy
Paula Raymond ... Ginny Beaufort
Adolphe Menjou ... Colonel Caleb Jeffers
Marshall Thompson ... Lance Beaufort
Ruby Dee ... Rachel - Slave Maid
Richard Rober ... Lt. Coulter
Leif Erickson ... Stranger
Will Geer ... Homer Crowley - Train Conductor

Description: A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/Gy3TBT3UUZp


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.91 GB, 3516 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 47 MB, 83 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) and French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Mysterious intruder (1946), The secret of the Whistler (1945) - The Whistler movie collection - little known B-film film noir collection



Rating 6.4/10 + 6.3/10
Runtime: 126 min (62/64)
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Castle/George Sherman
IMDb Link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038766/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038917/

Cast

Richard Dix ... Don Gale (Mysterious intruder)/Ralph Harrison (The secret of the Whistler)
Barton MacLane ... Detective Taggart (Mysterious intruder)
Nina Vale ... Joan Hill - Gale's Secretary (Mysterious intruder)
Regis Toomey ... James Summers (Mysterious intruder)
Helen Mowery ... Freda Hanson (Mysterious intruder)
Leslie Brooks ... Kay Morrell (The secret of the Whistler)
Michael Duane ... Jim Calhoun (The secret of the Whistler)
Mary Currier ... Edith Marie Harrison (The secret of the Whistler)
Mona Barrie ... Linda Vail (The secret of the Whistler)
Ray Walker ... Joseph Aloysius 'Joe' Conroy (The secret of the Whistler)

Description: Mysterious intruder (1946) - A private detective is hired by the owner of a music store to find a young girl he grew up with. Suspicious as to why someone would pay a lot of money to find someone he hasn't seen in years, the detective digs further and soon winds up in a scheme involving a set of valuable old phonograph records, a dead millionaire and murder.

The secret of the Whistler (1946) - An artist married to a wealthy but ill woman begins an affair with one of his models, who is after him solely for his money. His wife discovers the affair and threatens to cut him out of her will. In order to be able to keep both the wife's money and his girlfriend, he begins to secretly poison his wife - but events take a surprising turn after she eventually dies...


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Download links (torrent files):

https://workupload.com/file/QVkFCGaW3PS

https://workupload.com/file/qyKR8XvmhJE


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.56 GB, 3611 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 108/85 MB (main/commentary), 245/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/CBR

Video : 1.45 GB, 3225 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 114 MB, 247 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) closed captions embedded in both movies, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Greek, Portuguese-Brazilian (for The secret of the Whistler only)) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information

Mysterious intuder contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Jeremy Arnold. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)