Le bonheur AKA Happiness AKA Passion (1934) - lesser known French drama directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Gaby Morlay, Charles Boyer, Paulette Dubost and Michel Simon

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Marcel L'Herbier
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145682/

Cast

Gaby Morlay ... Clara Stuart
Charles Boyer ... Philippe Lutcher
Paulette Dubost ... Louise
Michel Simon ... Noël Malpiaz
Jean Toulout ... Maître Balbant
Georges Mauloy ... Le président des Assises
Léon Arvel ... L'avocat général

Description: Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet again...

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Video : 4.04 GB, 5221 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 78 MB, 96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Dance. fools, dance (1931) - little known drama directed by Harry Beaumont, starring Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, Clark Gable and Ann Dvorak

Rating 6.3/10
Runtime: 80 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Harry Beaumont
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021778/

Cast

Joan Crawford ... Bonnie
Cliff Edwards ... Bert Scranton
Lester Vail ... Bob
William Bakewell ... Rodney
William Holden ... Stanley Jordan
Clark Gable ... Jake Luva
Earle Foxe ... Wally
Purnell Pratt ... Parker Ann Dvorak ... Chorus Girl

Description: After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney is the wheelman in a gangland massacre. Bert, a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. Bonnie gets to know gang leader Jake Luva and learns how the gang works and that her brother is involved. By the time it's over, her wealthy friend Bob sees how wonderful she is and falls in love with her for good.

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Video : 2.1 GB, 3713 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 692x576 (1.20:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 49 MB, 85 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Midnight (1939) - classic romance directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer and Mary Astor

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031647/

Cast

Claudette Colbert ... Eve Peabody
Don Ameche ... Tibor Czerny
John Barrymore ... Georges Flammarion
Francis Lederer ... Jacques Picot
Mary Astor ... Helene Flammarion
Elaine Barrie ... Simone
Hedda Hopper ... Stephanie
Rex O'Malley ... Marcel

Description: Showgirl Eve, stranded penniless in Paris, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo Picot, who's attracted to Eve. Helene's scheming husband Georges enlists Eve's aid in taking Picot away from his wife. It works well - at first. Meanwhile, lovestruck Tibor searches for Eve. But then he learns she's calling herself Baroness Czerny.

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Video : 3.01 GB, 4567 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 776x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 62/45 MB (main/commentary), 92/66 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film writer and author Michael Koresky. 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 and commentary on Track 2)

Forbidden (1932) - little known drama directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Bellamy

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 85 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Frank Capra
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022905/

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck ... Lulu
Adolphe Menjou ... Bob
Ralph Bellamy ... Holland
Dorothy Peterson ... Helen
Thomas Jefferson ... Wilkinson
Myrna Fresholt ... Roberta - Baby
Charlotte Henry ... Roberta - Age 18

Description: On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover; back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. The editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu.

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Video : 2.38 GB, 3985 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 76/45 MB (main/commentary), 124/72 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) and French for main movie and English (for commentary) 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, Turkish, Greek) posters and screenshots included


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This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by a film historian Jeanine Basinger C. Courtney Joyner. 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 and commentary on Track 2)

Man's castle (1933) - little known drama directed by Frank Borzage, starring Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell and Walter Connolly

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 78 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Frank Borzage
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024302/

Cast

Spencer Tracy ... Bill
Loretta Young ... Trina
Marjorie Rambeau ... Flossie
Glenda Farrell ... Fay La Rue
Walter Connolly ... Ira
Arthur Hohl ... Bragg
Dickie Moore ... Joey

Description: 12 million Americans are out of work. Trina is homeless and hungry when Bill takes her under his wing, showing her a squatter's camp where she can live. She's soon in love with him, making a castle for him inside a shack; but he's bluff, gruff, and a "bindlestiff," a guy who can't stay put. When Trina tells Bill she's pregnant, he's ready to jump a freight train and move on, but first he wants to leave Trina with some money, so he partners up with Bragg, the camp's louse (who's been eyeing Trina), to rob a toy manufacturer. He's shot and the cops are closing in: does he have any options?

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Video : 2.16 GB, 3944 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 62 MB, 109 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Un carnet de bal AKA Dance program (1937) - classic French drama directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, Fernandel, Raimu and Andrex

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 131 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029706/

Cast

Marie Bell ... Christine Surgère
Françoise Rosay ... Marguerite Audié
Louis Jouvet ... Pierre Verdier, dit Jo
Harry Baur ... Alain Regnault
Pierre Blanchar ... Thierry Raynal
Fernandel ... Fabien Coutissol
Raimu ... Francois Patusset
Pierre Richard-Willm ... Eric Irvin
Andrex ... Paul

Description: After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.

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Video : 3.56 GB, 3904 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 152
Audio : 63 MB, 66 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Fric-Frac (1939) - classic French crime comedy directed by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara, starring Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Andrex and Hélène Robert

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 107 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Maurice Lehmann/Claude Autant-Lara
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031345/

Cast

Fernandel ... Marcel
Michel Simon ... Jo 'Les bras coupés'
Arletty ... Loulou
Hélène Robert ... Renée Mercandeau
Andrex ... Petit-Louis
René Génin ... Blain
Génia Vaury ... La grande Marie
Jacques Varennes ... Augustin dit Tintin
Marcel Vallée ... Mercadier - le bijoutier


Description: Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and Jo are crooks. As Marcel naively tries to bring some morality in their lives, the pair turn him into an unwilling accomplice in the robbery of his boss's jewels.

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Video : 2.27 GB, 3050 Kbps, 24 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 146 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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Rawhide (1951) - little known western directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger and Edgar Buchanan

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 87 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Hemry Hathaway
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043959/

Cast

Tyrone Power ... Tom Owens
Susan Hayward ... Vinnie Holt
Hugh Marlowe ... Rafe Zimmerman
Dean Jagger ... Yancy
Edgar Buchanan ... Sam Todd
Jack Elam ... Tevis
George Tobias ... Gratz

Description: Vinnie Holt, a single woman travelling with her toddler niece, becomes stranded at Rawhide, a desert stagecoach way station managed by stationmaster Sam Todd and his assistant Tom Owens. Owens is quickly impressed by Vinnie's independent self-confidence. Rafe Zimmerman, a fugitive murderer from Huntsville Prison disguised as a deputy, and three other ruthless escapees take over the station, intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment. After murdering Sam, Zimmerman knows they must keep Tom alive in order to complete their plans. Owens does not correct Zimmmerman's assumption that Vinnie is his wife, correctly sensing that the misconception might be the key to her survival as well...

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Video : 2.40 GB, 3959 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 644x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 119/50 MB (main/commentary), 192/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


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This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by western writer and cinema expert C. Courtney Joyner. 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 and commentary on Track 2)Rawhide (1951)

Whispering Smith (1948) - another little known western directed by Leslie Fenton, starring Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall and Donald Crisp

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Leslie Fenton
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040965/

Cast

Alan Ladd ... Whispering Smith
Robert Preston ... Murray Sinclair
Brenda Marshall ... Marian Sinclair
Donald Crisp ... Barney Rebstock
William Demarest ... Bill Dansing
Fay Holden ... Emmy Dansing
Murvyn Vye ... Blake Barton
Frank Faylen ... Whitey Du Sang

Description: Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and company colleague Murray Sinclair has thrown in with disreputable rancher Barney Rebstock and his cold-eyed psychopathic killer Whitey Du Stang to loot the railroad. Smith suspects that Murray's successful ranch spread owes as much to pilfering railroad property in conjunction with Rebstock as it does to his modest salary as wrecking crew boss. Complicating matters is Sinclair's growing contempt and disregard for his wife and Smith's unrequited affection for her.

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Video : 2.47 GB, 3963 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 780x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 76/53 MB (main/commentary), 119/83 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/CBR


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This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film critic and author Simon Abrams. 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 and commentary on Track 2)