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Sunday, May 7, 2023

You and me (1938) - crime drama directed by Fritz Lang, starring Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Harry Carey, Barton MacLane, Roscoe Karns and Robert Cummings

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030996/

Cast

Sylvia Sidney ... Helen Roberts
George Raft ... Joe Dennis
Barton MacLane ... Mickey
Harry Carey ... Mr. Morris
Roscoe Karns ... Cuffy
George E. Stone ... Patsy
Warren Hymer ... Gimpy Carter
Robert Cummings ... Jim

Description: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the store...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/050v3dtx

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.66 GB, 4078 Kbps, 24 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 97/128 MB (main/commentary), 144/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/CBR

Subtitles (English hearing impaired closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, German, 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 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, additional track on Track 2)

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Scarface (1932) - classic crime flick from director Howard Hawks, starring Paul Muni, George Raft, Boris Karloff and Ann Dvorak

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Howard Hawks/Richard Rosson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/

Cast

Paul Muni ... Tony
Ann Dvorak ... Cesca
Karen Morley ... Poppy
Osgood Perkins ... Johnny Lovo
C. Henry Gordon ... Inspector Guarino
George Raft ... Rinaldo
Vince Barnett ... Angelo
Boris Karloff ... Tom Gaffney
Purnell Pratt ... Publisher

Description: The prohibition of alcohol has led to a flourishing market of illegal liquors, dominated by organized crime. In Chicago the gangs control different parts of the city. As long as each gang limits its activities to its own district, there is peace between them. This balance of power is shattered, when the bodyguard Tony Camonte kills his boss Louis Costillo, and joins another gang. Tony helps his new boss, Johnny Lovo, to expand his market share by going into districts controlled by other gangs, kill their leaders and force pubs to buy illegal beer from Lovo instead. The situation quickly develops into an all-out war between the gangs. Tony wants to be the boss of the whole city. He starts disobeying Lovo, takes over his mistress Poppy, and finally kills Lovo. Tony is now the king, but he has one weak point: his overprotection of his 18-year-old sister Cesca. He forbids her to go out, and to flirt with men. When she breaks his commandments, he gets furious and forces her back home. That's when he becomes vulnerable for attacks from other gangs and the police...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_Nzl4N0tBNUVQZkk

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=58474330478825763959

With a little bit of extra material included:

* Robert Osborne introduction
* Alternate ending

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.1 GB, 1994 Kbps, 25 fps, 716x572 ~> 762x572 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 80
Audio : 123 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish, Greek, Polish) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, February 14, 2016

A bullet for Joey (1955) - lesser known film noir directed by Lewis Allen, starring Edward G. Robinson, George Raft and Audrey Totter

Rating 6.0/10
Runtime: 85 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Lewis Allen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047904/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Inspector Raoul Leduc
George Raft ... Joe Victor aka Steiner
Audrey Totter ... Joyce Geary
George Dolenz ... Dr. Carl Macklin
Peter van Eyck ... Eric Hartman
Toni Gerry ... Yvonne Temblay
Bill Bryant ... Jack Allen
John Cliff ... Morrie

Description: Montreal, Canada, sometime in the 50's. The former well-known gangster Joey Victor is fetched from Europe, where he was deported to from USA. His task is to kidnap the nuclear physicist Dr. Macklin and bring him behind the Iron Curtain. Joey reactivates his old gang, including the formerly attractive Joyce. She shall seduce the erotically inexperienced Macklin and lure him out of his closely protected quarters. But the FBI becomes suspicious...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/DCz46F3BUTz

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.23 GB, 5307 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1010x576 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 94 MB, 150 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Black Widow (1954) - lesser known film noir directed by Nunally Johnson, starring Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft and Ginger Rogers

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Nunally Johnson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046791/

Cast

Ginger Rogers ... Carlotta 'Lottie' Marin
Van Heflin ... Peter Denver
Gene Tierney ... Iris Denver
George Raft ... Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce
Peggy Ann Garner ... Nancy 'Nanny' Ordway
Reginald Gardiner ... Brian Mullen
Virginia Leith ... Claire Amberly
Otto Kruger ... Gordon Ling

Description: A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has been murdered, and suspicion immediately falls on the producer. He begins his own investigation in order to clear his name, and one of the first things he finds out is that the young woman wasn't quite as naive and innocent as she appeared to be...

Screens:

To be added later

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T5_fyYP2IpEXJqPprVWOMwYSQbevDa_1

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.21 GB, 1821 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024*402 (2.55:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 131/131 MB (main/commentary), 192/192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AC3, CBR/CBR

Subtitles

To be added later

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Alan K. Rode. 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, September 6, 2009

Some like it hot (1959) - excellent comedy from director Billy Wilder, starring Marylin Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft and Pat O'Brien

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/

Cast

Marilyn Monroe ... Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis ... Joe - 'Josephine'/'Junior'
Jack Lemmon ... Jerry - 'Daphne'
George Raft ... Spats Colombo
Pat O'Brien ... Det. Mulligan
Joe E. Brown ... Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff ... Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee ... Sweet Sue
Billy Gray ... Sig Poliakoff
George E. Stone ... Toothpick Charlie
Dave Barry ... Beinstock

Description: Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are in Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use Osgood Fielding's yacht if Jerry - as Daphne - will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_ZERmeTRQblhDdzQ

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=06061746584451399233

With extra material included:

* The Making of "Some Like It Hot" (26 mins.) — A casual, well-made thumbnail history assembled from new and archival materials that chronicle the film's writing (including good moments spent on Joe E. Brown's closing line) and production.

* The Legacy of "Some Like It Hot" (20 min) — An even more nostalgic and warmly felt companion piece to "The Making of...", this one adds Hugh Hefner, UCLA cinema professor Harold Suber, producer Walter Mirisch and director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) to Lemmon, Curtis, Wilder and Mrs. Diamond.

* "Nostalgic Look Back" (31 min) — An interview with Tony Curtis by Leonard Maltin.

* "Memories from the Sweet Sues" (12 min) — retrospective interviews with four of the bit-part actresses who played members of the all-girl jazz band, who recall being on the set, with most of the talk revolving around Marylin Monroe.

* Interactive 3-D Hall of Memories — 21-minute montage of stills, scene snippets and "Never-Before-Seen" photos, devoted to Monroe, Curtis, Lemmon, Wilder and Behind The Scenes.

* Original theatrical trailer

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.54 GB, 2987 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 952*576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 334/70 MB (main/commentary), 384/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, 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, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Serbian, Czech, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian) posters and screenshots included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by actors Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, son of co-screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond and screenwriters Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz. 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)

Monday, August 17, 2009

Manpower (1941) - Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035034/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry
Marlene Dietrich ... Fay Duval
George Raft ... Johnny Marshall
Alan Hale ... Jumbo Wells
Frank McHugh ... Omaha

Description: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval in a clip joint, but tensions start to show in the road crew as rivally between Hank and Johnny increases.

Screens:

Sunday, March 30, 2008

They drive by night (1940) - lesser known film noir directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ida Lupino and Ann Sheridan

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0033149/

Cast

George Raft ... Joe Fabrini
Humphrey Bogart ... Paul Fabrini
Ann Sheridan ... Cassie Hartley
Ida Lupino ... Lana Carlsen
Gale Page ... Pearl Fabrini

Description: Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition. They are forced into driving long hours and one night pick-up waitress Cassie Hartley who's just quit her job at a truck stop. The three of them witness the death of a mutual acquaintance when he falls asleep at the wheel. This has a profound effect on Paul and Joe and they become determined to find a way to make the business pay so they can quit.

Screens (to be added later):

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_RUt0WHAxOVB1X1U

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=73420770882563154293

Video and audio information (to be added later):

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