Showing posts with label Irving Pichel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irving Pichel. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

They won't believe me (1947) - little known film noir from director Irving Pichel, starring Robert Young, Susan Hayward and Jane Greer

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Pichel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039896/

Cast

Robert Young ... Larry Ballentine
Susan Hayward ... Verna Carlson
Jane Greer ... Janice Bell
Rita Johnson ... Greta Ballentine
Tom Powers ... Trenton
George Tyne ... Lieutenant Carr

Description:Larry Ballentine is a philanderer who is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Verna Carlson. On the stand, he recounts that he had been married for about five years when he decided to run off to Montreal with Janice Bell, someone he had been spending his Saturdays with for several months. His wife Greta was aware of his assignations and convinced him to go to California with her. He stayed on the straight and narrow for a good six months but then took up with co-worker, Carlson. They too planned on running off together but two deaths and a few lies to the police have landed Ballentine in his current circumstance. Having told the entire story to the jury, their verdict is all that remains...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/y7f035u8


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.56 GB, 3864 KBps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 65 MB, 96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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


Monday, December 28, 2020

The great Rupert AKA Christmas wish (1950) - Christmas family classic from director Irving Pichel, starring Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore and Tom Drake

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 187 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Pichel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042524/

Cast

Jimmy Durante ... Mr. Louie Amendola
Terry Moore ... Rosalinda Amendola
Tom Drake ... Peter 'Pete' Dingle
Frank Orth ... Mr. Frank Dingle
Sara Haden ... Mrs. Katie Dingle
Queenie Smith ... Mrs. Amendola
Chick Chandler ... Phil Davis

Description: A heartwarming holiday classic about a New York family who is down on their luck at Christmas time. Shortly before Christmas, they move into a ground floor apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just when it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel, not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever. Rupert the Squirrel (created using George Pal's Academy Award winning animation technique) will charm young and old alike, while Jimmy Durante shines when he sings Jingle Bells and other well-loved Christmas carols in the evocative voice that made him one of America's recording legends.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/xaoy71tp


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.30 GB, 3727 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 754x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 70 MB, 111 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles Separate English and Greek posters and screenshots included

Thursday, October 6, 2016

The most dangerous game (1932) - classic horror from director Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 63 min
Language: English/Russian
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023238/

Cast

Joel McCrea ... Bob
Fay Wray ... Eve
Robert Armstrong ... Martin
Leslie Banks ... Zaroff
Noble Johnson ... Ivan
Steve Clemente ... Tartar
William B. Davidson ... Captain
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian ... Tarter Servant

Description: After their luxury cabin cruiser crashes on a reef, Bob Rainsford finds himself washed ashore on a remote island. He finds a fortress-like house and the owner, Count Zaroff, seems to be quite welcoming. Apart from Zaroff's servant Ivan, the only other people present are Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin, also survivors of their own shipwreck. Other survivors are missing however and Rainsford soon learns why. Zaroff releases them into his jungle island and then hunts them down in his grisly "outdoor chess" game! Then after Martin disappears, Bob realizes that he and Eve are to be the next "pawns" in Zaroff's deadly game.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_ZUZyU0N5ZU91QmM

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=79396677226366589644


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.34 GB, 3094 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 672x456 ~> 597x456 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 112
Audio : 58 MB, 128 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

Monday, April 14, 2014

Quicksand (1950) - Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre in lesser known film noir

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 79 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Pichel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042869/

Cast

Mickey Rooney ... Dan
Jeanne Cagney ... Vera
Barbara Bates ... Helen
Peter Lorre ... Nick
Taylor Holmes ... Harvey
Art Smith ... Mackey

Description: Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a fur coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into crime, while everyone he meets is out for what they can get.

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Download link (torrent file):


https://workupload.com/file/mb3C6YxdRUn


Video and audio information:

Video : 909 MB, 1606 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 692x460 ~> 692x519 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 217 MB, 384 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Posters, audio and video information, screenshots included