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Sunday, May 7, 2023

You and me (1938) - crime drama directed by Fritz Lang, starring Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Harry Carey, Barton MacLane, Roscoe Karns and Robert Cummings

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030996/

Cast

Sylvia Sidney ... Helen Roberts
George Raft ... Joe Dennis
Barton MacLane ... Mickey
Harry Carey ... Mr. Morris
Roscoe Karns ... Cuffy
George E. Stone ... Patsy
Warren Hymer ... Gimpy Carter
Robert Cummings ... Jim

Description: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the store...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/050v3dtx

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.66 GB, 4078 Kbps, 24 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 97/128 MB (main/commentary), 144/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/CBR

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

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film critic and author Simon Abrams. 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)

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Fury (1936) - classic gangster movie from director Fritz Lang, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027652/

Cast

Sylvia Sidney ... Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy ... Joe Wilson
Walter Abel ... District Attorney
Bruce Cabot ... Kirby Dawson
Edward Ellis ... Sheriff
Walter Brennan ... 'Bugs' Meyers
Frank Albertson ... Charlie
George Walcott ... Tom
Arthur Stone ... Durkin

Description: Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. But things go disastrously wrong for Joe when he is stopped in Strand by the redneck Deputy "Bugs" Meyers as suspect of kidnapping a boy in the Peabody Case. When they find peanuts in his pocket and a five-dollar bill in his pocket with the numeration of the money paid for ransom, Joe is arrested for investigation. "Bugs" Meyers makes a comment in the barbershop about the prisoner and sooner the gossip is spread in the little town. Joe is accused of being a kidnapper and they try to invade the police station to lynch him. For political reason, Governor Burt does not send the National Guard to help Sheriff Tad Hummel to protect Joe and the Police Station is burnt down by the vigilantes. Joe is presumed dead but out of the blue he appears at his brothers' apartment seeking justice. He had learnt that in accordance with the laws, Lynch Law is murder in the first degree and his brothers open a case against twenty-two dwellers of Strand. The prosecutor Mr. Adams accepts the case and Katherine Grant is the prime witness. Joe's revenge is set in motion.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/rx3np0qz

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.43 GB, 3757 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 710x480 ~> 710x517 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 122
Audio : 127/53 MB (main/commentary), 192/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR

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

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, with interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang. 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)

Saturday, July 12, 2014

You only live once (1937) - crime movie directed by Fritz Lang, starring Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane and Jean Dixon

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 86 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029808/

Cast

Sylvia Sidney ... Joan Graham
Henry Fonda ... Eddie Taylor
Barton MacLane ... Stephen Whitney
Jean Dixon ... Bonnie Graham
William Gargan ... Father Dolan
Jerome Cowan ... Dr. Hill
Charles 'Chic' Sale ... Ethan
Margaret Hamilton ... Hester
Warren Hymer ... Buggsy

Description: Joan Graham is the efficient secretary of a public defender Stephen Whitney and is in love with the small-time criminal Eddie Taylor. Her boss and friend Stephen helps Eddie to leave the prison on probation; Eddie promises to have a straight life and immediately get married to Joan. He finds a job as a truck driver, but is unfairly fired on his first day. While trying to find another job, there is a heist in a bank with six victims and Eddie is accused. Joan convinces him to go to the court and prove his innocence, but based on circumstantial evidence and prejudice of the jury, Eddie is sentenced to the electric chair. On the night of his execution, the FBI finds the real criminal and grants Eddie an indulgence. However, Eddie is trying to escape from prison in a hostage situation, and kills his friend Father Dolan, who was trying to help him. Eddie meets Joan and together they try to reach the border and escape from justice...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/dkr9xus9

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.41 GB, 2339 Kbps, 24 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 53/39 MB (main/commentary), 86/64 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR

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

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by author and film historian Jeremy Arnold. 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)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - Sabotage (1936) - Oskar Homolka and Sylvia Sidney

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 76 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0028212

Cast

Sylvia Sidney ... Mrs. Verloc
Oskar Homolka ... Karl Anton Verloc
Desmond Tester ... Steve
John Loder ... Sgt. Ted Spencer

Description: Mr. Verloc, a cinema owner, is part of a gang of saboteurs in London. He lives with his wife, Sylvya, and her young brother, Stevie. They know nothing about Verloc's secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective, Ted, to work in a shop near the cinema and investigate the man. The head of the gang assigns Verloc to put a bomb in the metro. The man sends Stevie there with the "bag".

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