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Sunday, January 31, 2021

Long day's journey into night (1962) - less known drama directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 171 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056196/

Cast

Katharine Hepburn ... Mary Tyrone
Ralph Richardson ... James Tyrone
Jason Robards ... Jamie Tyrone
Dean Stockwell ... Edmund Tyrone
Jeanne Barr ... Kathleen

Description: One day in the early twentieth century in the life of the outwardly "loving" yet dysfunctional Tyrone family - parents James and Mary, and their two surviving adult sons Jamie and Edmund - at their Connecticut seaside summer home is presented. Mary has recently been released from a sanatorium for addiction to morphine. She got hooked on it during the difficult pregnancy with Edmund. As such, she secretly blames him for her addiction. Although Mary is purportedly clean, the male members of the family can't help but believe that she is still getting her fixes when she is alone. Edmund, a mariner, also recently arrived home. They are all aware deep in their hearts that Edmund is suffering from consumption, and not a summer cold as they all say it is, as they await the official diagnosis. James, formerly an actor, is a spendthrift despite having money. He, however, is not unwilling to spend money on whiskey or get rich quick schemes, largely buying what ends up being worthless real estate. Jamie largely blames his father for not spending the money early in their illnesses for Mary and Edmund's health/medical problems. Otherwise, Jamie has largely been aimless in his life. He has followed in James' footsteps in becoming an actor solely because James gave him the opportunity, but places no effort in it as a career. In addition to these issues, all three male members of the family drink to excess. These family issues are played out as the long day turns into night...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HaGQ77Rl4zJiWVQ0o0nTe5VNRld1ga8n

Video and audio information:

Video : 4.70 GB, 3946 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1022*576 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 163 MB, 132 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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

Thursday, March 1, 2018

The four feathers (1939) - classic adventure movie from director Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 129 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031334/

Cast

John Clements ... Harry Faversham
Ralph Richardson ... Captain John Durrance
C. Aubrey Smith ... General Burroughs
June Duprez ... Ethne Burroughs
Allan Jeayes ... General Faversham
Jack Allen ... Lieutenant Willoughby
Donald Gray ... Peter Burroughs

Description: Resigning his commission on the eve of his unit's deployment against Egyptian rebels, a British officer seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades - disguised as an Arab. When his unit is overwhelmed and captured by the rebels, the hero finds an opportunity to return the 'feathers' of cowardice sent to him by his former comrades by freeing them.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w58l4bZckm9LZJKVeY_ZJ4oMZizEYZ66

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=12915235945749113412

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.34 GB, 2912 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 369/106 MB (main/commentary), 192/128 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AC3/AC3, CBR/CBR

Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Serbian, Swedish, Croatian) posters and screenshots included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by director Zoltan Korda. 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, July 23, 2017

The citadel (1938) - little known drama from director King Vidor, starring Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Richardson

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: King Vidor
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029995/

Cast

Robert Donat ... Andrew
Rosalind Russell ... Christine
Ralph Richardson ... Denny
Rex Harrison ... Dr. Lawford
Emlyn Williams ... Owen
Penelope Dudley-Ward ... Toppy LeRoy
Francis L. Sullivan ... Ben Chenkin

Description: Idealistic young Dr. Andrew Manson is just beginning his career. He is looking for a balance between fair working conditions and being able to properly take care of his patients. After quitting his initial job in Wales as an assistant to Dr. Page due to the unfair working conditions set by Dr. Page's tyrannical wife, Manson gets a job working as the doctor for the local mine. Quickly, Manson notices that many of the miners have a persistent cough which had been treated by the previous doctor with "pink medicine". Suspecting that the cough has something to do with the mining conditions, Manson decides to investigate. Without the support of the local hospital, Manson, with the urging and support of his equally idealistic schoolteacher wife, Christine, opens a research facility in their home. Their research does determine that the silica dust from the mine is causing the miners' tuberculosis. However, many of the miners and the miner's board question the need for the research and want Manson to go back to solely prescribing the pink medicine for the cough. Disillusioned, Manson hastily quits and opens a practice in London. After an initial struggle, Manson, with advice from an old colleague, learns that a lucrative career can be had by treating the wealthy whose only medical problems are the want for attention. Money changes Manson's outlook, an outlook not supported by Christine. But a personal tragedy close to the Mansons caused by medical incompetence makes Manson reexamine the path he's chosen in London...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/ebxg14it

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.24 GB, 1571 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 718x480 ~> 718x538 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 155 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles (Separate English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Serbian) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Things to come (1936) - classic science fiction flick from director William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman and Ralph Richardson

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Cameron Menzies
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/

Cast

Raymond Massey ... John Cabal/Oswald Cabal
Edward Chapman ... Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy
Ralph Richardson ... The Boss
Margaretta Scott ... Roxana/Rowena
Cedric Hardwicke ... Theotocopulos
Maurice Braddell ... Dr. Harding
Sophie Stewart ... Mrs. Cabal
Derrick De Marney ... Richard Gordon
Ann Todd ... Mary Gordon

Description: It's Christmas time 1940 in Everytown. People are happy and enjoying the holiday season but all is shattered when a global war is declared. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primitive localized communities. In 1966 a great plague, the Wandering Sickness, wipes out most of what people are left but small numbers still survive. One day a strange aircraft lands at one of these communities and its pilot tells of an organization which is rebuilding civilization and slowly moving across the world re-civilizing these groups of survivors. Great reconstruction takes place over the next few decades and society is once again great and strong. The world's population is now living in underground cities. In the year 2035, on the eve of man's first flight to the moon, a popular uprising against progress (which some people claim has caused the wars of the past) gains support and becomes violent.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_R0ZaaHNNVXhPalk

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=66379128829409085111

With a little set of extras included:

* "On Reflection: Brian Aldiss on H.G. Wells" – 25 minute documentary from English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories (1971)
* "The Wandering Sickness" - a recording (taken from an archival 78 rpm record) of Wells reading an excerpt from his novel The Shape of Things to Come that describes the effects of the Wandering Sickness
* U.S re-release trailer

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.69 GB, 2484 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x472 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 267/65 MB (main/commentary), 384/95 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AC3/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-Brazilian, Turkish, Croatian, Greek, Dutch) 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 historian and writer David Kalat. 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, July 3, 2016

The heiress (1949) - classic drama directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson and Miriam Hopkins

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 115 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041452/

Cast

Olivia de Havilland ... Catherine Sloper
Montgomery Clift ... Morris Townsend
Ralph Richardson ... Dr. Austin Sloper
Miriam Hopkins ... Lavinia Penniman
Vanessa Brown ... Maria
Betty Linley ... Mrs. Montgomery
Ray Collins ... Jefferson Almond

Description: In 1840's New York Catherine lives with her father, Dr. Sloper. Her mother died some years before, and Dr. Sloper still idolizes her, and never misses an opportunity to compare her daughter to her - a comparison the daughter can never win. When Morris Townsend, a handsome but pennyless young man, comes along, and woos and wins his daughter's heart, Dr. Sloper is sure that he is after her considerable inheritance, and opposes their marriage. Dr. Sloper takes his daughter to Europe in hopes she will forget Morris, but she does not. After Catherine returns to New York, the young lovers plan to elope. Dr. Sloper threatens to disinherit his daughter. Will this dissuade Morris?

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/g6m5AzaruYD

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.10 GB, 3850 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 76 MB, 92 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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, Italian, Turkish, German, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Doctor Zhivago (1965) - a classic romance set up during Russian Revolution from director David Lean, starring late Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger and Alec Guiness

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 200 min
Language: English/Russian/French
Country: USA/UK/Italy
Directed by: David Lean
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/

Cast

Omar Sharif ... Yuri
Julie Christie ... Lara
Geraldine Chaplin ... Tonya
Rod Steiger ... Komarovsky
Alec Guinness ... Yevgraf
Tom Courtenay ... Pasha
Siobhan McKenna ... Anna
Ralph Richardson ... Alexander

Description: A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_d1p6N3FIS1Y4OGs

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=31375553726662090990

Video and audio information:

Video : 4.28 GB, 3201 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x428 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 128
Audio : 916/200 MB (main/commentary), 640/128 Kbps, 48000/24000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR

Subtitles (English, French, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Greek, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Serbian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Swedish, 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 Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger and Lady Sandra Lean. 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)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The fallen idol (1948) - classic thriller from director Carol Reed

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Carol Reed
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040338/

Cast

Ralph Richardson ... Baines
Michèle Morgan ... Julie
Sonia Dresdel ... Mrs. Baines
Bobby Henrey ... Phillipe
Denis O'Dea ... Inspector Crowe
Jack Hawkins ... Detective Ames
Walter Fitzgerald ... Dr. Fenton
Dandy Nichols ... Mrs. Patterson

Description: Baines, an English butler working at a French embassy, is more of a father to the ambassador's young son, Phillipe, than the ambassador. But the hated Mrs. Baines, the head housekeeper, is not a mother to him. Phillipe discovers that Baines is having an affair with the young French woman working as a secretary in the embassy. But he's too young to realize what he knows. He believes Baines's story that the young woman is his niece. And he agrees to keep the matter a secret. Secrets and lies become the dominant themes of his young life - especially when he thinks he's witnessed a murder.

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