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Sunday, February 14, 2021

The defiant ones (1958) - classic drama from director Stanley Kramer, starring Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel and Charles McGraw

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/

Cast

Tony Curtis ... John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier ... Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel ... Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw ... Capt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr. ... Big Sam
King Donovan ... Solly
Claude Akins ... Mack
Lawrence Dobkin ... Editor
Whit Bissell ... Lou Gans

Description: After the truck transporting them is sideswiped and run off the road in a heavy rainstorm two convicts, John 'Joker' Jackson - who is white - and Noah Cullen - who is black, go on the run. They hate each other but being chained together forces them to cooperate. Their goal is to travel 60 miles north where Noah once worked and catch a train that he hopes is still running that route. Meanwhile the humane Sheriff Max Muller organizes a posse to track them down in a civilized manner and respecting justice. Joker and Cullen reach a small farm where a lonely woman helps them to get rid of their chains. She offers to drive her car with Joker and her son Billy while Cullen would escape through the swamp to the railroad. But when Joker learns that she sent Cullen to a trap, he leaves her and is shot in the shoulder by Billy. Joker seeks out Cullen to save him and when they meet each other, their former hatred has changed to friendship and respect.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gpUV55cUJW1Qmt0V4kQV_qupdB6e_nA4

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.63 GB, 2405 KBps, 23.976 fps, 796x480 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 83 MB, 120 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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

Sunday, December 9, 2018

His kind of woman (1951) - little known film noir from director John Farrow, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw and Raymond Burr

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 120 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Farrow/Richard Fleischer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043643/

Cast

Robert Mitchum ... Dan Milner
Jane Russell ... Lenore Brent
Vincent Price ... Mark Cardigan
Tim Holt ... Bill Lusk
Charles McGraw ... Thompson / Narrator
Marjorie Reynolds ... Helen Cardigan
Raymond Burr ... Nick Ferraro
Leslie Banning ... Jennie Stone

Description: Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves "honest" gambler Dan Milner, who's subjected to a series of "misfortunes," then bribed to take a trip to Mexico. En route, Dan meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, truly his kind of woman. But on arrival at posh Morros Lodge in Baja California, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing roles...except, possibly, ham actor Mark Cardigan. What does Ferraro want with him? Can he trust anyone?

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/6mLhTnXwWSn

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.63 GB, 3127 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 101/60 MB (main/commentary), 117/70 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR

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

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Border incident (1949) - another little known film noir from director Anthony Mann, starring Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy and Howard Da Silva

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Anthony Mann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041198/

Cast

Ricardo Montalban ... Pablo Rodriguez
George Murphy ... Jack Bearnes
Howard Da Silva ... Owen Parkson
James Mitchell ... Juan Garcia
Arnold Moss ... Zopilote
Alfonso Bedoya ... Cuchillo
Teresa Celli ... Maria
Charles McGraw ... Jeff Amboy

Description: When several illegal Mexican workers are murdered at the border of Mexico and United States by a gang of Coyotes, the Mexican and American federal agents Pablo Rodriguez and Jack Bearnes are assigned to work infiltrated in the group of Mexican farm workers that are waiting for a chance to work in southern California. Pablo poses of bracero while Jack poses of a dealer of permits to work in the United State to discover the leaders that exploit the laborers. They stumble upon the rancher Owen Parkson and they find he is the ringleader. But soon they are in danger and do not have means to communicate with their contacts. What will happen to Jack and Pablo?

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1syMmHAofjwd1V6Pl92BZMEeeqKeRfMpR

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=96423278367536842906

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.80 GB, 2648 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 718x480 ~> 718x538 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 131/53 MB (main/commentary), 192/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Polish, Serbian) 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 historian Dana Polan. 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)

Friday, April 17, 2015

Boris Karloff's Thriller - season 1, episodes 10-18

Episode 10 - The prediction

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself / Clayton Mace
Audrey Dalton ... Norine Burton
Alexander Davion ... Grant Dudley
Abraham Sofaer ... Gus Kostopulos
Alan Caillou ... Roscoe Burton
Murvyn Vye ... 'Gunner' Gogan
Richard Peel ... Charlie

Description: An elderly stage mentalist makes no pretense that his clairvoyant act is purely for entertainment. But one night he is seized with a vision of a death in the boxing ring. He sends the father of his beautiful stage assistant to warn the manager of the ill-fated boxer, but the bounder makes a bet on his prediction instead and wins big. The whole thing has everyone in the theater spooked. Meanwhile, the mentalist has other visions of death and especially fears for the safety of his assistant, who wants to get married and leave town. Her skeptical fiancé thinks the old man has greedy motives for delivering a dire warning about a twisted road sign, but his predictions are all proving horribly true.

Episode 11 - The fatal impulse

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Robert Lansing ... Lieutenant Brian Rome
Whitney Blake ... Jane Kimball
Conrad Nagel ... Mayor Walker Wylie
Elisha Cook Jr. ... Harry Elser
Steve Brodie ... Sgt. George Dumont
Elaine Edwards ... Marjorie Dalquiss

Description: A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb.

Episode 12 - The big blackout

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Jack Carson ... Burt Lewis
Charles McGraw ... Sheriff Cliff Wrights
Nan Leslie ... Midge Lewis
Jeanne Cooper ... Ethel Bankstrom
George Mitchell ... Doc Mulloy

Description: A recovering alcoholic who can not remember his past finds himself confronted by criminals and killers looking for a man who may or may not be him.

Episode 13 - Knock three-one-two

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Joe Maross ... Ray Kenton
Beverly Garland ... Ruth Kenton
Charles Aidman ... George Mikos
Warren Oates ... Benny

Description: A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.

Episode 14 - Man in the middle

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Mort Sahl ... Sam Lynch
Werner Klemperer ... Mr. Clark
Sue Randall ... Kay Salisbury
Fred Beir ... Alan Dulain
Frank Albertson ... Charles Salisbury

Description: A man overhears a plot for kidnapping and murder. At first, he doesn't want to do anything about it, but eventually he gets caught in the middle of the plot.

Episode 15 - The cheaters

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Mildred Dunnock ... Miriam Olcott
Harry Townes ... Sebastian Grimm
Jack Weston ... Edward Dean
Paul Newlan ... Joe Henshaw

Description: A man invents a pair of glasses that can see the truth in others and oneself. They lead to a series of suicides, murders, and tragedies for the wearers.

Episode 16 - The hungry glass

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
William Shatner ... Gil Thrasher
Joanna Heyes ... Marcia Thrasher
Russell Johnson ... Adam Talmadge
Elizabeth Allen ... Liz Talmadge
Clem Bevans ... Obed

Description: A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.

Episode 17 - The poisoner

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Murray Matheson ... Thomas Edward Griffith
Sarah Marshall ... Frances Abercrombie Griffith
Brenda Forbes ... Mrs. Abercrombie
Jennifer Raine ... Helen Abercrombie
David Frankham ... Proctor

Description: London critic and wit Thomas Edward Griffith finds himself in need of funds and saddled with abrasive in-laws and a disapproving uncle. The solution to his problems lies in his collection of rare poisons.

Episode 18 - Man in the cage

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Philip Carey ... Darryl Hudson
Diana Millay ... Ellen McKinstry
Eduardo Ciannelli ... Inspector Le Boude
Barry Gordon ... 'Slip-Slip'
Al Ruscio ... Allah El Kazim

Description: An American comes to Tangier to search for his missing brother and becomes embroiled in the search for a missing cache of heroin.

Extras for episodes from this post (promos not included in my source):

1x10 - The prediction (Audio commentary by Arthur Hiller and Steve Mitchell, episode promo)
1x11 - The fatal impulse (Episode promo)
1x14 - Man in the middle (Episode promo)
1x15 - The cheaters (Audio commentary by Gary Gerani, isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
1x16 - The hungry glass (Audio commentary by Gary Gerani and Marc Scott Zicree)
1x17 - The poisoner (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
1x18 - Man in the cage (Episode promo)

Download link (torrent file)

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=08838183942456732956

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_UnFUZ2RjRFdfdG8

Thursday, March 21, 2013

T-Men (1947) - semi-documentary film noir from director Anthony Mann

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Anthony Mann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039881/

Cast

Dennis O'Keefe ... Dennis O'Brien aka Vannie Harrigan
Mary Meade ... Evangeline
Alfred Ryder ... Tony Genaro aka Tony Galvani
Wallace Ford ... The Schemer (as Wally Ford)
June Lockhart ... Mary Genaro
Charles McGraw ... Moxie

Description: A flood of counterfeit money is flowing into general use and the United States Treasury Department is reeling. The illegal tender has an unusually high quality due to the expert engraving of the plates and very good paper used for making the funny money nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. The Treasury Department calls in Dennis O'Brien (Dennis O'Keefe) to go undercover and infiltrate a ruthless Detroit gang believed to be responsible for the fake dough. O'Brien partners up with the newly married Anthony Gennaro (Alfred Ryder) and the two gain access to the thugs making the bad money. O'Brien and Genaro don't realize that getting out of this shadowy world will be a lot harder than getting in ever was...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_SVZrWFh0UW5KVk0

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=01500513284105251673

Video and audio information:

Video : 656/643 MB, 2256/1744 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20)
Audio : 40/50 MB, 128 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MP3, VBR

Subtitles (English and French), sample, posters and screenshots included

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Hang 'em high (1968) - classic western directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Ed Begley. Inger Stevens, Ben Jhohnson and Charles McGraw

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 114 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Ted Post
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061747/

Cast

Clint Eastwood ... Marshal Jed Cooper
Inger Stevens ... Rachel Warren
Ed Begley ... Captain Wilson, Cooper Hanging Party
Pat Hingle ... Judge Fenton
Ben Johnson ... Marshal Dave Bliss
Charles McGraw ... Sheriff Ray Calhoun, Red Creek

Description: A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice.

Screens

To be posted later

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14xHVYkbpmzncIOtLMLCr1CLkugyC3opx

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.23 GB, 4033 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024*552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 367 MB, 448 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles

To be added later

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

In cold blood (1967) - Richard Brooks drama based on true story

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 129 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Richard Brooks
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/

Cast

Robert Blake .... Perry Smith
Scott Wilson .... Richard 'Dick' Hickock
John Forsythe .... Alvin Dewey
Paul Stewart .... Jensen
Gerald S. O'Loughlin .... Harold Nye
Jeff Corey .... Mr. Hickock
John Gallaudet .... Roy Church
James Flavin .... Clarence Duntz
Charles McGraw .... Tex Smith
Will Geer .... Prosecutor
John McLiam .... Herbert Clutter
Ruth Storey .... Bonnie Clutter

Description: Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://rapidshare.com/files/3010733938/In cold blood (1967).torrent

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.36 GB, 1512 Kbps, 25 fps, 640*272 (2.35:1), XviD = XviD 1.2.0
Audio : 59 MB, 64 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = MPEG-1 Layer 3

Subtitles (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch in SUB/IDX format + Polish, Portuguese and Turkish in SRT/SUB format) + sample included

Monday, April 26, 2010

The killers (1946) - classic film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene and Charles McGraw

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038669/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... 'Swede' Andersen
Ava Gardner ... Kitty Collins
Edmond O'Brien ... Jim Reardon
Albert Dekker ... Big Jim Colfax
Sam Levene ... Lt. Sam Lubinsky
Vince Barnett ... Charleston
Virginia Christine ... Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
Charles D. Brown ... Packy Robinson
Jack Lambert ... 'Dum-Dum' Clarke
Donald MacBride ... R.S. Kenyon
Charles McGraw ... Al

Description: Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede," who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's life, Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime, all linked with gorgeous, mysterious Kitty Collins.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/XwMS6tmmUdp

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.12 GB, 2962 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 778x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 141 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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, Italian, German, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech), posters and screenshots included

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Spartacus (1960) - classic adventure/drama movie from director Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin and Charles McGraw

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 189 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/

Cast

Kirk Douglas ... Spartacus
Laurence Olivier ... Marcus Licinius Crassus
Jean Simmons ... Varinia
Charles Laughton ... Sempronius Gracchus
Peter Ustinov ... Lentulus Batiatus
John Gavin ... Julius Caesar
Nina Foch ... Helena Glabrus
John Ireland ... Crixus
Herbert Lom ... Tigranes Levantus
John Dall ... Marcus Publius Glabrus
Charles McGraw ... Marcellus
Joanna Barnes ... Claudia Marius
Harold J. Stone ... David
Woody Strode ... Draba
Peter Brocco ... Ramon

Description: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes. Meanwhile, in Rome, the slave revolt has become a deciding factor in the power struggle between two senators: the republican Gracchus and the militarist Crassus, each of whom sees the fortunes of the rebellion as the key to his own rise to power or humiliating defeat. As the two statesmen attempt to aid, hinder and manipulate the rebels for their own benefit, Spartacus and his followers press on toward freedom.

Screens (to be updated later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_SzZJc2tqVjU2UjA

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=55774584175675981965

Video and audio information (to be updated later):

Video :
Audio :

Subtitles (to be updated later)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Armored car robbery (1950) - William Talman and Charles McGraw

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 67 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042206/

Cast

Charles McGraw ... Lt. Jim Cordell
Adele Jergens ... Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
William Talman ... Dave Purvis aka Martin Bell
Douglas Fowley ... Benjamin 'Benny' McBride
Steve Brodie ... Al Mapes
Don McGuire ... Detective Danny Ryan
Don Haggerty ... Detective Driving Final Pursuit Car
James Flavin ... Lt. Phillips

Description: Dave Purvis has pulled off an armored-car robbery with engineering precision, and has a few details to tend to before boarding a chartered airplane to take him to a life of ease and comfort; first he shoots a wounded gang-member, whose wife he is bedding, tosses another one to the police and betrays a third and is nearly home free. However, Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Jim Cordell, using his brain and playing hunches, and making use of the police department's scientific network of laboratory, switchboard, radio-patrol cars, wire-tapping and recording devices is closing fast.

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