Somewhere in the night (1946) - little known film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan and Richard Conte

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 108 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038965/

Cast

John Hodiak ... George W. Taylor
Nancy Guild ... Christy Smith
Lloyd Nolan ... Police Lt. Donald Kendall
Richard Conte ... Mel Phillips
Josephine Hutchinson ... Elizabeth Conroy
Fritz Kortner ... Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
Margo Woode ... Phyllis
Sheldon Leonard ... Sam

Description: George W. Taylor, a Marine combat casuality, suffers from amnesia and returns to civilian life with only a name. He learns that his last address before the war was a skid-row hotel in Los Angeles and he goes there to begin retracing his steps. His only clue is a baggage check. Using it he claims a briefcase, containing information about a bank account, which leads to information that suggests he is a murderer. Along the way he is aided by a nightclub singer, Christy Smith and a police detective, Donald Kendall.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.77 GB, 3667 KBps, 23.976 fps, 808x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 144
Audio : 173 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

No way out (1950) - little known thriller/film noir from director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell and Stephen McNally

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 106 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042792/

Cast

Richard Widmark ... Ray Biddle
Sidney Poitier ... Dr. Luther Brooks
Linda Darnell ... Edie Johnson
Stephen McNally ... Dr. Dan Wharton
Mildred Joanne Smith ... Cora Brooks
Harry Bellaver ... George Biddle
Stanley Ridges ... Dr. Sam Moreland

Description: The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.77 GB, 3713 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 195/53 MB (main/commentary), 256/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English hearing impaired 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, Greek, German) 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 noir historian Eddie Muller. 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)

House of strangers (1949) - lesser known film noir from director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte and Susan Hayward

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 101 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041487/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Gino Monetti
Richard Conte ... Max Monetti
Susan Hayward ... Irene Bennett
Luther Adler ... Joe Monetti
Paul Valentine ... Pietro Monetti
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ... Tony Monetti
Debra Paget ... Maria Domenico

Description: In New York, after seven years in prison, the lawyer Max Monetti goes to the bank of his brothers Joe, Tony and Pietro Monetti and promises revenge to them. Then he visits his lover Irene Bennett that asks him to forget the past and start a new life. Max recalls the early 30s, when he is the favorite son of his father Gino Monetti, who has a bank in the East Side. Gino is a tyrannical and egocentric self-made man that raises his family in an environment of hatred and Max is a competent lawyer engaged with Maria Domenico. When Max meets the confident Irene, he has a troubled love affair with her. In 1933, with the new Banking Act reaches Gino for misapplication of funds. Max plots a plan to help his father but is betrayed by his brothers. Now Max will see his brothers that have also being raised under the motto "Never forgive, ever forget".

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Video and audio information:

Video : 3.09 GB, 4355 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 642x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 211/52 MB (main/commentary), 292/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC/VORBIS, VBR/VBR


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


Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Foster Hirsch, author of "Film Noir: The dark side of the screen" book. 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)

A letter to three wifes (1949) - classic drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Paul Douglas and Jeffrey Lynn

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041587/

Cast

Jeanne Crain ... Deborah Bishop
Linda Darnell ... Lora Mae Hollingsway
Ann Sothern ... Rita Phipps
Kirk Douglas ... George Phipps
Paul Douglas ... Porter Hollingsway
Barbara Lawrence ... Babe Finney
Jeffrey Lynn ... Brad Bishop
Connie Gilchrist ... Ruby Finney
Florence Bates ... Mrs. Manleigh
Hobart Cavanaugh ... Mr. Manleigh

Description: Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.85 GB, 3962 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 64 MB, 87 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Japanese 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, French, Greek, Italian, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

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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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

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) - Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in classic fantasy from director Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0039420/

Cast

Gene Tierney ... Lucy Muir
Rex Harrison ... Capt. Daniel Gregg
George Sanders ... Miles Fairley
Edna Best ... Martha Huggins
Vanessa Brown ... Anna Muir as an Adult
Anna Lee ... Mrs. Miles Fairley
Robert Coote ... Mr. Coombe
Natalie Wood ... Anna Muir as a Child

Description: In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. Sure enough, that very night she meets the ghost of crusty former owner Captain Gregg...and refuses to be scared off. Indeed, they become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom. But when a charming live man comes courting, Lucy and the captain must deal with their feelings for each other.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 3.37 GB, 4378 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 764x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 335/65/58 MB (main/commentary/commentary), 448/87/77 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 6/2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/VBR


Subtitles

To be added later


Triple audio track information


This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original English, and the others are commentaries by Greg Kimble and Christopher Husted (manager of composer Bernard Herrmann's estate) and with film historian Jeanine Basinger (Professor of film studies) and Kenneth Geist (author of Pictures Will Talk: the Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz). 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 tracks on Track 2 and Track 3)

Suddenly, last summer (1959) - classic Tennessee Williams stage play adaptation directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Albert Dekker

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 114 min
Language: English
Country: USA/United Kingdom
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053318/

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor ... Catherine Holly
Katharine Hepburn ... Mrs. Venable
Montgomery Clift ... Dr. Cukrowicz
Albert Dekker ... Dr. Hockstader
Mercedes McCambridge ... Mrs. Holly
Gary Raymond ... George Holly

Description: In sweltering 1937 New Orleans, Louisiana, after witnessing first-hand the primitive surgical conditions of his financially hard-pressed state institution, brilliant young neurosurgeon Dr Cukrowicz receives an unexpected invitation. As grieving Mrs Violet Venable, an aging wealthy widow who is one of the city's wealthiest benefactors, promises to contribute a hefty amount of money to the institution, Dr Cukrowicz finds himself confronted with a grave, pressing dilemma: perform a lobotomy on her committed niece Catherine Holly, or lose a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save the state hospital. Indeed, ever since the tragic death of Violet's son Sebastian, troubled Catherine has been losing her grip on reality, stigmatized forever after that horrible, fateful vacation at a sun-drenched Spanish village. However, is poor Catherine eligible for the delicate procedure? Either way, no one can change the truth, not even God. What happened, suddenly, last summer?

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.98 GB, 2481 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 854x460 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 96/97 MB (main/isolated score), 118/119 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is isolated score. 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)