Showing posts with label Edmond O'Brien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmond O'Brien. Show all posts

Sunday, January 30, 2022

An act of murder (1948) - another little known film noir from director Michael Gordon, starring Frederic March, Edmond O'Brien, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges and John McIntire

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Gordon
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040072/

Cast

Fredric March ... Judge Calvin Cooke
Edmond O'Brien ... David Douglas
Florence Eldridge ... Catherine Cooke
Geraldine Brooks ... Ellie Cooke
Stanley Ridges ... Doctor Walter Morrison
John McIntire ... Judge Ogden
Virginia Brissac ... Mrs. Russell

Description:A stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further suffering. He decides to kill her by driving the both of them off a cliff. He succeeds in ending her pain, but unfortunately he survives and ends up turning himself in with a full confession. Now it is up to his brilliant lawyer to defend him...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/693haf5b


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.44 GB, 3847 KBps, 23.976 fps, 778x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 106/52 MB (main/commentary), 163/80 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, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Samm Deighan. 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)

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

711 Ocean Drive (1950) - little known film noir directed by Joseph M. Newman, starring Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger and Barry Kelley

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph M. Newman
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042176/

Cast

Edmond O'Brien ... Mal Granger
Joanne Dru ... Gail Mason
Otto Kruger ... Carl Stephans
Barry Kelley ... Vince Walters
Dorothy Patrick ... Trudy Maxwell
Don Porter ... Larry Mason
Howard St. John ... Lt. Pete Wright

Description:A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. When the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/d5CngWMkVGc


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.38 GB, 3342 KBps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 80 MB, 109 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, Spanish, French, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Sunday, December 12, 2021

The web (1947) - little known film noir directed by Michael Gordon, starring Edmond O'Brien, Ella Raines, William Bendix and Vincent Price

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 87 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Gordon
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039973/

Cast

Edmond O'Brien ... Bob Regan
Ella Raines ... Noel Faraday
William Bendix ... Lt. Damico
Vincent Price ... Andrew Colby
Maria Palmer ... Martha Kroner
John Abbott ... Charles Murdock

Description: Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's secretary Noel, begins to suspect he's been used...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/xswig457


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.21 GB, 5269 KBps, 23.976 fps, 788x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 163
Audio : 72/39 MB (main/commentary), 116/63 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 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, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film scholar, professor Jason A. Ney. 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)

Sunday, May 23, 2021

The hitch-hiker (1953) - little known film noir directed by Ida Lupino, starring Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy and William Talman

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 71 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Ida Lupino
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045877/

Cast

Edmond O'Brien ... Roy Collins
Frank Lovejoy ... Gilbert Bowen
William Talman ... Emmett Myers
José Torvay ... Capt. Alvarado
Sam Hayes ... Radio Broadcaster

Description: Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/3ampbgz1


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.06 GB, 4179 KBps, 23.976 fps, 656x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 146
Audio : 129 MB, 256 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC-3, CBR


Subtitles (Separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, German, Turkish) posters and screenshots included


Monday, January 11, 2021

A double life (1947) - lesser known film noir from director George Cukor, starring Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien and Shelley Winters

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English/Italian/Swedish
Country: USA
Directed by: George Cukor
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039335/

Cast

Ronald Colman ... Anthony John
Signe Hasso ... Brita Kaurin
Edmond O'Brien ... Bill Friend
Shelley Winters ... Pat Kroll
Ray Collins ... Victor Donlan
Philip Loeb ... Max Lasker
Millard Mitchell ... Al Cooley
Joe Sawyer ... Ray Bonner

Description: Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him; although she still loves him and works with him, she couldn't stand living with him anymore. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/vcRLpGR2yLE


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.56 GB, 2123 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 648*480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 337 MB, 448 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC-3, CBR


Subtitles Separate English, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) - prison drama from director John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas and Edmond O'Brien

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 149 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Frankenheimer/Charles Crichton
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055798/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Robert Franklin Stroud
Karl Malden ... Harvey Shoemaker
Thelma Ritter ... Elizabeth Stroud
Neville Brand ... Bull Ransom
Betty Field ... Stella Johnson
Telly Savalas ... Feto Gomez
Edmond O'Brien ... Tom Gaddis
Hugh Marlowe ... Albert Comstock

Description: In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother, Elizabeth Stroud, due to a violation of the internal rules, he stabs and kills the guard and goes to trial three times. He is sentenced to be executed by the gallows, but his mother appeals to President Woodrow Wilson who commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. However, the warden, Harvey Shoemaker, decides to keep Stroud in solitary for the rest of his life. One day, Stroud finds a sparrow that has fallen from the nest in the yard and he raises the bird until it is strong enough to fly. Stroud finds a motivation for his life raising and caring for birds and becomes an expert in birds. He marries Stella Johnson and together they run a business, providing medicine developed by Stroud. But a few years after, Stroud is transferred to Alcatraz and has to leave his birds behind...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/23ssm2ir


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.58 GB, 3450 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 956x576 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 169 MB, 159 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 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 (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Julius Caesar (1953) - historic movie starring Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Edmond O'Brien, Deborah Kerr, Greer Garson, Alan Napier and George Macready

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045943/

Cast

Marlon Brando ... Mark Antony
James Mason ... Brutus
John Gielgud ... Cassius
Louis Calhern ... Julius Caesar
Edmond O'Brien ... Casca
Greer Garson ... Calpurnia
Deborah Kerr ... Portia
George Macready ... Marullus
Michael Pate ... Flavius
Richard Hale ... Soothsayer
Alan Napier ... Cicero
John Hoyt ... Decius Brutus

Description: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius and other high-ranking Romans persuade him to participate in a plot to assassinate Caesar. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, who they have sorely underestimated, makes a moving burial speech. The conspirators are driven from Rome, and two armies are formed: one side following the conspirators; the other, Antony. Antony has the superior force and surrounds Brutus and Cassius.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/3q7ubavl


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.89 GB, 2229 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x478 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 389 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

Sunday, October 11, 2015

The wild bunch (1969) - excellent western from director Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and Edmond O'Brien

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 144 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/

Cast

William Holden ... Pike Bishop
Ernest Borgnine ... Dutch Engstrom
Robert Ryan ... Deke Thornton
Edmond O'Brien ... Freddie Sykes
Warren Oates ... Lyle Gorch
Jaime Sánchez ... Angel
Ben Johnson ... Tector Gorch
Emilio Fernández ... Mapache
Strother Martin ... Coffer
L.Q. Jones ... T.C
Albert Dekker ... Harrigan
Bo Hopkins ... Crazy Lee

Description: A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapache" Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/StiHgQ0Ky8Hd4xp/file


Also included a set of extra materials:

* An excerpt from "A simple adventure story - Sam Peckinpah, Mexico and The Wild Bunch" - a documentary film by Nick Redman
* Never seen before outtakes
* "Sam Peckinpah's West - Legacy of a Hollywood renegade" - the documentary reveals a tortured artist whose genius and demons changed the Western forever. Interviewees include actor/director Billy Bob Thornton, Benicio Del Toro, Paul Schrader, film critic Roger Ebert, actors who worked with Peckinpah such as Harry Dean Stanton, Stella Stevens, L.Q. Jones and others. The personal side of Peckinpah will feature interviews with family members, sister Fern Lee, son Mathew Peckinpah, plus exclusive home movies and photos.
* "The wild bunch - An album in montage" - Nominated in 1996 for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage is a behind the scenes look at the making of an American classic. In 1995, some 70 minutes of black and white footage of Peckinpah directing The Wild Bunch were discovered on a shelf in the vaults of Warner Bros. Studios. No one knows who shot them or how they got there, but they've sat there for over a quarter of a century. Paul Seydor, a Peckinpah scholar, teamed up with Nick Redman, a music archivist who'd recently restored the soundtrack of The Wild Bunch for compact disc. Combining newly found footage, scenes from the finished movie, and commentary, they have created a remarkably insightful work: a privileged glimpse at a great director working on his masterpiece. With the voices of Ed Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brian and others.
* "Cambridge Film Handbooks: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch" (1999) by Stephen Price - Demonstrating to filmmakers the power of irony as a narrative voice and its effectiveness as a tool for exploring and portraying brutality, The Wild Bunch fundamentally changed the Western, moving it into a more brutal and psychopathic territory than it had ever inhabited before. This volume includes freshly commissioned essays by several leading scholars of Peckinpah's work. Examining the film's production history from script to screen, its rich and ambivalent vision of American society, and its relationship to the western genre, among other topics, it provides a definitive reinterpretation of an enduring film classic.
Stephen Prince is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultra-Violent Movies; Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film; and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film.
* "Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the rise of ultraviolent movies" (1998) by Stephen Prince - More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social effects, and the relation of contemporary ultraviolence to the radical, humanistic filmmaking that Peckinpah practiced. Prince demonstrates Peckinpah's complex approach to screen violence and shows him as a serious artist whose work was tied to the social and political upheavals of the 1960s. He explains how the director's commitment to showing the horror and pain of violence compelled him to use a complex style that aimed to control the viewer's response. Prince offers an unprecedented portrait of Peckinpah the filmmaker. Drawing on primary research materials--Peckinpah's unpublished correspondence, scripts, production memos, and editing notes--he provides a wealth of new information about the making of the films and Peckinpah's critical shaping of their content and violent imagery. This material shows Peckinpah as a filmmaker of intelligence, a keen observer of American society, and a tragic artist disturbed by the images he created.


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.24 GB, 2213 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x422 (2.4:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 464/83 MB (main/commentary), 448/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


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


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Peckinpah biographers: Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle. 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)

Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in adaptation of classic novel from Victor Hugo

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 117 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Dieterle
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031455/

Cast

Charles Laughton ... The Hunchback/Quasimodo
Cedric Hardwicke ... Frollo
Thomas Mitchell ... Clopin
Maureen O'Hara ... Esmeralda
Edmond O'Brien ... Gringoire
Alan Marshal ... Phoebus
Walter Hampden ... Archdeacon
Harry Davenport ... King Louis XI
Katharine Alexander ... Madame de Lys
George Zucco ... Procurator

Description: King Louis XI is a wise and old king and Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in the church during Fool's Day and sends Quasimodo to catch her. Quasimodo is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimodo to be flogged and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a party of nobles, Esmeralda again meets both Frollo, who is bewitched by her, and Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court and sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars, Gringoire, Esmeralda's husband, and Quasimodo, the bellringer, all try different ways to save her from the gallows.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_bV9zZzllQ3BYZ0U

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=53497625786996074695


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.80 GB, 3439 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 374 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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