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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Les yeux sans visage AKA Eyes without a face (1960) - French thriller from director Georges Franju

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: French
Country: France/Italy
Directed by: Georges Franju
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/

Cast

Pierre Brasseur ... Docteur Génessier
Alida Valli ... Louise
Juliette Mayniel ... Edna Grüber
Edith Scob ... Christiane Génessier
François Guérin ... Jacques Vernon
Alexandre Rignault ... Inspector Parot

Description: A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/lqlpcvo0

Also included a set of extra material:

* "Franju on Blood" featurette - excerpt from the acclaimed TV series Cinéma de notre temps, featuring Franju on Blood of the Beasts

* "Le Fantastique" featurette - excerpt from the episode Le Fantastique of the French TV show Ciné Parade, featuring Franju

* "Boileau - Narcejac" featurette - excerpt from Les Grands-pères du crime, a documentary featuring Eyes Without a Face writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (Le Diabolique, Vertigo)

* Trailers - original theatrical and The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus, the latter being a name under which edited and dubbed version was shown in 1962 in USA

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.18 GB, 1900 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 676x480 ~> 801x480 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 138
Audio : 124 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Turkish, Greek, Serbian), posters and screenshots included

Sunday, October 14, 2007

The third man (1949) - classic film noir from director Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English/German/Russian
Country: UK
Directed by: Carol Reed
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0041959/

Cast

Joseph Cotten ... Holly Martins
Alida Valli ... Anna Schmidt
Orson Welles ... Harry Lime
Trevor Howard ... Major Calloway
Bernard Lee ... Sergeant Paine
Paul Hörbiger ... Harry's Porter
Ernst Deutsch ... 'Baron' Kurtz

Description: An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/minhkxfe

Audio and video information: (to be added later)

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Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

Monday, August 6, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - The Paradine case (1947) - Gregory Peck, Alida Valli

Rating 6.4/10
Runtime: 125 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0039694/

Cast

Gregory Peck ... Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defence
Alida Valli ... Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine
Ann Todd ... Gay Keane
Charles Laughton ... Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Charles Coburn ... Sir Simon Flaquer
Ethel Barrymore ... Lady Sophie Horfield
Louis Jourdan ... Andre Latour, Paradine's Valet
Leo G. Carroll ... Sir Joseph, Counsel for the Prosecution

Description: Highly successful London barrister Anthony Keane takes on the case of Italian Maddalena Paradine who is accused of poisoning her blind military hero husband. Keane comes increasingly under her spell, threatening both his marriage and his career.

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