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Saturday, April 25, 2020

The shootist (1976) - classic western directed by Don Siegel, starring John Wayne in his last role, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart and Richard Boone

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075213/

Cast

John Wayne ... J.B. Books
Lauren Bacall ... Bond Rogers
Ron Howard ... Gillom Rogers
James Stewart ... Dr. Hostetler
Richard Boone ... Sweeney
Hugh O'Brian ... Pulford
Bill McKinney ... Cobb
Harry Morgan ... Marshall Thibido
John Carradine ... Beckum

Description: John Books, an aging gunfighter, goes to see a doctor for a second opinion after another doctor told him he has a cancer which is terminal. The doctor confirms what the other said. He says Books has a month, maybe two left. He takes a room in the boarding house and the son of the woman who runs it recognizes him and tells his mother who he is. She doesn't like his kind but when he tells her of his condition, she empathizes. Her son wants him to teach him how to use a gun. Books tries to tell him that killing is not something he wants to live with. Soon, however, he hits upon another plan, one befitting his career and involving more dignity and less suffering.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/6NxC95r9rbA

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.28 GB, 4744 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 124/61 MB (main/commentary), 175/86 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech) posters and screenshots included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, first is original English and the other is commentary by filmmaker and critic Howard S. Berger. 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 24, 2014

How to marry a millionaire (1953) - classic romantic comedy starring Marylin Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and William Powell

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045891/

Cast

Betty Grable ... Loco Dempsey
Marilyn Monroe ... Pola Debevoise
Lauren Bacall ... Schatze Page
David Wayne ... Freddie Denmark
Rory Calhoun ... Eben
Cameron Mitchell ... Tom Brookman
Alexander D'Arcy ... J. Stewart Merrill
Fred Clark ... Waldo Brewster
William Powell ... J.D. Hanley

Description: Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble is that's it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the huxters and even when they can, is the money really worth it?

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Download link (torrent file):

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=09939099188598287141

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_TWxqMzIyVGNhbUU

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.64 GB, 2576 Kbps, 25 fps, 720x334 (2.2:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 112
Audio : 100 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles (English, Danish, Romanian, Turkish closed captions embedded in a movie, Romanian subtitles are default, to change it choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Serbian, Norwegian), posters and screenshots included

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - film adaptation of Agatha Christie novel

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071877/

Cast

Albert Finney ... Hercule Poirot
Lauren Bacall ... Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard
Martin Balsam ... Signor Bianchi
Ingrid Bergman ... Greta Ohlsson
Jacqueline Bisset ... Countess Andrenyi
Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Pierre Paul Michel
Sean Connery ... Colonel Arbuthnot
John Gielgud ... Mr. Beddoes
Wendy Hiller ... Princess Dragomiroff
Anthony Perkins ... Hector Willard MacQueen
Vanessa Redgrave ... Mary Debenham
Rachel Roberts ... Hildegarde Schmidt
Richard Widmark ... Mr. Ratchett
Michael York ... Count Andrenyi

Description: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express. One of the passengers requests his protection, but Poirot declines. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment and Poirot is asked to solve the case. The train is forced to stop due to a snow drift blocking the tracks. This gives him a few hours to figure out the murderer's identity before the local police take over the investigation. During his investigation, Poirot discovers that many of the passengers have some connection to a 5 year old case where an infant was kidnapped and murdered in which the mastermind escaped prosecution. This lead to the death (during childbirth) of the mother and the suicide of her father. This could be the vital clue to crack the case, but can he do it in time?

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Key Largo (1948) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson in classic film noir

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Huston
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0040506/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Frank McCloud
Edward G. Robinson ... Johnny Rocco
Lauren Bacall ... Nora Temple
Lionel Barrymore ... James Temple
Claire Trevor ... Gaye Dawn
Thomas Gomez ... Richard 'Curly' Hoff
Harry Lewis ... Edward 'Toots' Bass
John Rodney ... Deputy Clyde Sawyer
Marc Lawrence ... Ziggy
Dan Seymour ... Angel Garcia
Monte Blue ... Sheriff Ben Wade

Description: A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.

Screens:

Download links (torrent file)

https://www.firedrive.com/file/9101A3B1F2F0440E

http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/34102887/file.html

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.23 GB, 1757 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), Xvid = XVID Mpeg-4 1.2.0
Audio : 138 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3

Subtitles (English, Polish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Turkish, Norwegian, Greek, Dutch, Hungarian) and trailer included

Saturday, March 1, 2008

To have and have not (1944) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in classic romance

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 100 min
Language: English/French
Country: USA
Directed by: Howard Hawks
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0037382/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Harry 'Steve' Morgan
Lauren Bacall ... Marie 'Slim' Browning
Walter Brennan ... Eddie
Dolores Moran ... Mme. Hellene de Bursac
Hoagy Carmichael ... Cricket
Sheldon Leonard ... Lt. Coyo
Walter Szurovy ... Paul de Bursac
Marcel Dalio ... Gerard (Frenchy)

Description: Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days.

Screens:

Download links (torrent file)

https://www.firedrive.com/file/BADD37074FB54E08

http://www6.zippyshare.com/v/89159250/file.html

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.59 GB, 2269 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 137 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

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

Friday, September 21, 2007

The big sleep (1946) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in classic film noir

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 114 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Howard Hawks
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038355/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Philip Marlowe
Lauren Bacall ... Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
John Ridgely ... Eddie Mars
Martha Vickers ... Carmen Sternwood
Dorothy Malone ... Acme Bookstore proprietress
Peggy Knudsen ... Mona Mars

Description: Private-eye Philip Marlowe is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's youngest daughter, Carmen, who has fallen into bad company and is likely to do some damage to herself and her family before long. He soon finds himself falling in love with her older sister, Vivien, who initially takes a deep dislike to Mr Marlowe. However, the plot thickens when murder follows murder...

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Pre-release

Theatrical

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There are tvo versions of this movie posted: one is the "prerelease" (1945) version of "The Big Sleep" that IMDB calls the director's cut and other version is theatrical one. The following describes the main differences between the two versions and why two versions were created.

After the film was completed, it was shelved while Warner Bros. worked to release a backlog of war-related films. It was decided that since the war was drawing to a close, public interest in these films would substantially lessened after its conclusion, whereas The Big Sleep had no such obvious issues of time sensitivity which would require a more immediate release. (A careful eye will spot many indications of The Big Sleep being shot during the war, such as ration stamps and dialogue, and pictures of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.)
Once the war ended, and Warner Bros. planned to release The Big Sleep, the "Bogie & Bacall" phenomenon caused by their electric appearance in To Have and Have Not as well as their subsequent marriage, was in full swing. Bacall's agent requested that portions of the film be reshot to capitalize on her newly attained celebrity. Studio head Jack Warner agreed, and new material, such as the suggestive "horse racing" scene was added (even though, contextually, it makes no sense whatsoever). Parts of the ending were also reshot, with Peggy Knudsen now in the part of Mona Mars, owing to the original actress, Pat Clark, being unavailable. While there is only a difference of two minutes in the run time of both versions, there is over twenty minutes of different footage between them. This resulted in a great deal of confusion being artificially imposed on what was an already intricate plot. In its revised form, The Big Sleep made its theatrical debut on 23 August 1946. - Wikipedia

Download link (torrent file)

http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/71642502/file.html

https://www.firedrive.com/file/09EE4BD62010C107

There is also extra material included - versions comparison, behind the scenes photos and trailer

Audio and video information:

Theatrical

Video : 1.39 GB, 1748 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 157 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Prerelease

Video : 2.36 GB, 2848 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 160 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Norwegian, Romanian) for theatrical and English, French, Spanish for prerelease

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Dark passage (1947) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in classic film noir

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 106 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Delmer Daves
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0039302/

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart ... Vincent Parry
Lauren Bacall ... Irene Jansen
Bruce Bennett ... Bob
Agnes Moorehead ... Madge Rapf
Tom D'Andrea ... Cabby (Sam)
Clifton Young ... Baker

Description: Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart's-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he's really after is revenge.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file)

http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/83617133/file.html

https://www.firedrive.com/file/394DA7B028A30483

Also a set of extras included:

* Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers featurette - featuring film historians Leonard Maltin and Robert Osborne, and Bogart biographer Eric Lax, at just over 10 minutes, the short film briefly chronicles Bacall's arrival in Hollywood under the aegis of director Howard Hawks and her subsequent struggle to find suitable parts at Warner Bros. We also learn about Bogart's interest in The Dark Road, the David Goodis book upon which Dark Passage is based, and how he and producer Jerry Wald needed to convince a reluctant Jack Warner to buy the "bleak" property. Examinations of the lives of Goodis and director-writer Delmer Daves are also included, as well as a discussion of the film's location shooting and innovative technique. Especially fascinating is a look at the involvement of Bogart and Bacall in The Committee for the First Amendment, a group of Hollywood activists that traveled to Washington in 1947 to lend support to the writers and actors harassed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Despite the best intentions, Bogart himself became ensnared in political intrigue, and the fallout haunted him for the rest of his life.

* Slick Hare - Bugs Bunny cartoon featuring an animated Bogart as a demanding nightclub customer who threatens to gun down waiter Elmer Fudd if he's not served a dish of fried rabbit in 20 minutes. Fudd frantically searches the kitchen until he happens upon that "wascally wabbit" Bugs munching carrots in a corner. Typical antics ensue, with hilarious depictions of other famous restaurant guests, including Frank Sinatra, Ray Milland, the Marx Brothers, Sydney Greenstreet and Carmen Miranda.

* Trailer - a beautifully restored original trailer shamelessly misleads viewers by playing up the Bogart-Bacall romantic angle in Dark Passage and ignoring the more potent and predominate murder mystery. The trailer opens with a theater usher referencing the duo's previous pictures, lulling the audience into the lie that Dark Passage will be a carbon copy — hard evidence of the studio's nervousness over the film's risky style and somber story.

Audio and video information:

Video : 1.56 GB, 2109 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 146 MB, 192 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, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Serbian, Turkish, Dutch, Romanian), posters and screenshots included