Showing posts with label Michael Powell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Powell. Show all posts

Sunday, September 17, 2023

The thief of Bagdad (1940) - classic fantasy movie directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan, starring John Justin, Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez and Rex Ingram

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom/USA
Directed by: Ludwig Berger/Michael Powell/Tim Whelan
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033152/

Cast

John Justin ... Ahmad
Conrad Veidt ... Jaffar
Sabu ... Abu
June Duprez ... Princess
Rex Ingram ... Djinn
Miles Malleson ... Sultan
Morton Selten ... The Old King

Description: In Bagdad, the young and naive Sultan Ahmad is curious about the behavior of his people. The Grand Vizier Jaffar convinces Ahmad to walk through the city disguised as a subject to know his people. Then he seizes the power telling to the inhabitants that Ahmad has died while he sends his army to arrest the Sultan that is thrown into the dungeons and sentenced to death. Ahmad befriends the young thief Abu that helps him to escape from the prison. They flee to Basra and plan to travel abroad with Sinbad. However Ahmad stumbles upon the beautiful princess and they fall in love with each other. But the evil Jaffar has also traveled to Basra to propose to marry the princess. When they see each other, Jaffar uses magic to blind Ahmad and turn Abu into a dog. Is their love doomed?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/9DZYuCnpJue


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.12 GB, 4196 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 784x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 97 MB, 121 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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

Sunday, January 22, 2023

49th parallel (1941) - little known war drama directed by Michael Powell, starring Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey and Anton Walbrook

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English/French/German
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Powell
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/

Cast

Leslie Howard ... Philip Armstrong Scott
Laurence Olivier ... Johnnie - The Trapper
Raymond Massey ... Andy Brock
Anton Walbrook ... Peter
Eric Portman ... Lieutenant Ernst Hirth
Glynis Johns ... Anna
Niall MacGinnis ... Vogel

Description: In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boat's fanatical Nazi Captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party (lead by Lieutenant Hirth) reaches the shore, the U-boat is spotted and sunk by the Canadian Armed Forces, leaving the six members of the shore party stranded in Canada. The Nazi Lieutenant then starts to plan his crew's return to the Fatherland. He needs to reach the neutral U.S., or be captured. Along the way, they meet a variety of characters, each with their own views on the war and nationalism...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/exzsrq59


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.70 GB, 3173 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 121 MB, 138 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, 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, Italian, Turkish, Dutch) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Peeping Tom (1960) – Karlheinz Böhm in dark thriller from director Michael Powell

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Michael Powell
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/

Cast

Karlheinz Böhm ... Mark Lewis (as Carl Boehm)
Moira Shearer ... Vivian
Anna Massey ... Helen Stephens
Maxine Audley ... Mrs. Stephens
Brenda Bruce ... Dora
Miles Malleson ... Elderly Gentleman Customer
Esmond Knight ... Arthur Baden
Jack Watson ... Chief Insp. Gregg

Description: As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as a focus-puller for a London movie studio. He moonlights by taking girlie pictures above a news agent's shop. But Mark has also taken up a horrifying hobby: He murders women while using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. One evening, Mark meets and befriends Helen Stephens, a young woman who rents one of the rooms in his house. Does Helen represent some kind of possible redemption for Mark - or is she unknowingly running the risk of becoming one of his victims?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/zB7fVvKspQYh


Audio and video information (to be added later):


Subtitles (to be added later):