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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Six bridges to cross (1955) - little known film noir directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen and Sal Mineo

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048628/

Cast

Tony Curtis ... Jerry Florea
George Nader ... Edward Gallagher
Julie Adams ... Ellen Gallagher
Jay C. Flippen ... Vincent Concannon
Sal Mineo ... Jerry Florea - as a Boy
Jan Merlin ... Andy Norris
Richard Castle ... Skids Radzevich

Description: Youth gang leader Jerry Florea is shot fleeing from a crime scene by rookie cop Ed Gallagher. Result: "he'll never have children of his own." Ed and Jerry develop a mutually beneficial friendship: Jerry gets the benefit of the doubt, Ed gets information that brings him rapid promotion. As years and jail terms go by, Ed's friendship with this likable rogue becomes strained, as hope for his reform dwindles. Can Jerry redeem himself in the end?

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/QFkAStddp23

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.51 GB, 3717 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 159
Audio : 73/54 MB (main/commentary), 105/78 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR/VBR

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

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by film historian Samm Deighan. 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)

Sunday, December 3, 2023

The midnight story (1957) - lesser known film noir directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen and Ted de Corsia

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050704/

Cast

Tony Curtis ... Joe Martini
Marisa Pavan ... Anna Malatesta
Gilbert Roland ... Sylvio Malatesta
Jay C. Flippen ... Sgt. Jack Gillen
Argentina Brunetti ... Mama Malatesta
Ted de Corsia ... Lt. Kilrain
Richard Monda ... Peanuts Malatesta

Description: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/3FxYdGhGM6Y

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.16 GB, 3445 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x436 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 163
Audio : 164/123 (main/commentary), 256/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AC3, CBR/VBR

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

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by professor and film scholar Jason A. Ney. 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)

Sunday, February 14, 2021

The defiant ones (1958) - classic drama from director Stanley Kramer, starring Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel and Charles McGraw

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/

Cast

Tony Curtis ... John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier ... Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel ... Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw ... Capt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr. ... Big Sam
King Donovan ... Solly
Claude Akins ... Mack
Lawrence Dobkin ... Editor
Whit Bissell ... Lou Gans

Description: After the truck transporting them is sideswiped and run off the road in a heavy rainstorm two convicts, John 'Joker' Jackson - who is white - and Noah Cullen - who is black, go on the run. They hate each other but being chained together forces them to cooperate. Their goal is to travel 60 miles north where Noah once worked and catch a train that he hopes is still running that route. Meanwhile the humane Sheriff Max Muller organizes a posse to track them down in a civilized manner and respecting justice. Joker and Cullen reach a small farm where a lonely woman helps them to get rid of their chains. She offers to drive her car with Joker and her son Billy while Cullen would escape through the swamp to the railroad. But when Joker learns that she sent Cullen to a trap, he leaves her and is shot in the shoulder by Billy. Joker seeks out Cullen to save him and when they meet each other, their former hatred has changed to friendship and respect.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gpUV55cUJW1Qmt0V4kQV_qupdB6e_nA4

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.63 GB, 2405 KBps, 23.976 fps, 796x480 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 83 MB, 120 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Spartacus (1960) - classic adventure/drama movie from director Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin and Charles McGraw

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 189 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/

Cast

Kirk Douglas ... Spartacus
Laurence Olivier ... Marcus Licinius Crassus
Jean Simmons ... Varinia
Charles Laughton ... Sempronius Gracchus
Peter Ustinov ... Lentulus Batiatus
John Gavin ... Julius Caesar
Nina Foch ... Helena Glabrus
John Ireland ... Crixus
Herbert Lom ... Tigranes Levantus
John Dall ... Marcus Publius Glabrus
Charles McGraw ... Marcellus
Joanna Barnes ... Claudia Marius
Harold J. Stone ... David
Woody Strode ... Draba
Peter Brocco ... Ramon

Description: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes. Meanwhile, in Rome, the slave revolt has become a deciding factor in the power struggle between two senators: the republican Gracchus and the militarist Crassus, each of whom sees the fortunes of the rebellion as the key to his own rise to power or humiliating defeat. As the two statesmen attempt to aid, hinder and manipulate the rebels for their own benefit, Spartacus and his followers press on toward freedom.

Screens (to be updated later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_SzZJc2tqVjU2UjA

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=55774584175675981965

Video and audio information (to be updated later):

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Subtitles (to be updated later)

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Some like it hot (1959) - excellent comedy from director Billy Wilder, starring Marylin Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft and Pat O'Brien

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/

Cast

Marilyn Monroe ... Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis ... Joe - 'Josephine'/'Junior'
Jack Lemmon ... Jerry - 'Daphne'
George Raft ... Spats Colombo
Pat O'Brien ... Det. Mulligan
Joe E. Brown ... Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff ... Little Bonaparte
Joan Shawlee ... Sweet Sue
Billy Gray ... Sig Poliakoff
George E. Stone ... Toothpick Charlie
Dave Barry ... Beinstock

Description: Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are in Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use Osgood Fielding's yacht if Jerry - as Daphne - will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_ZERmeTRQblhDdzQ

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=06061746584451399233

With extra material included:

* The Making of "Some Like It Hot" (26 mins.) — A casual, well-made thumbnail history assembled from new and archival materials that chronicle the film's writing (including good moments spent on Joe E. Brown's closing line) and production.

* The Legacy of "Some Like It Hot" (20 min) — An even more nostalgic and warmly felt companion piece to "The Making of...", this one adds Hugh Hefner, UCLA cinema professor Harold Suber, producer Walter Mirisch and director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) to Lemmon, Curtis, Wilder and Mrs. Diamond.

* "Nostalgic Look Back" (31 min) — An interview with Tony Curtis by Leonard Maltin.

* "Memories from the Sweet Sues" (12 min) — retrospective interviews with four of the bit-part actresses who played members of the all-girl jazz band, who recall being on the set, with most of the talk revolving around Marylin Monroe.

* Interactive 3-D Hall of Memories — 21-minute montage of stills, scene snippets and "Never-Before-Seen" photos, devoted to Monroe, Curtis, Lemmon, Wilder and Behind The Scenes.

* Original theatrical trailer

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.54 GB, 2987 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 952*576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 334/70 MB (main/commentary), 384/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, 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, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Serbian, Czech, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Slovakian, Hungarian, 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 actors Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, son of co-screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond and screenwriters Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz. 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)

Friday, August 28, 2009

Winchester 73 (1950) - classic western directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally and Millard Mitchell

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Anthony Mann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043137/

Cast

James Stewart ... Lin McAdam
Shelley Winters ... Lola Manners
Dan Duryea ... Waco Johnnie Dean
Stephen McNally ... Dutch Henry Brown
Millard Mitchell ... High Spade
Charles Drake ... Steve Miller
John McIntire ... Joe Lamont
Will Geer ... Wyatt Earp
Jay C. Flippen ... Sgt. Wilkes
Rock Hudson ... Young Bull
Tony Curtis ... Doan

Description: Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives, until a final showdown and shoot-out on a rocky mountain precipice.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/y0lb57rb

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Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Vikings (1958) - Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 116 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/

Cast

Kirk Douglas ... Einar
Tony Curtis ... Eric
Ernest Borgnine ... Ragnar
Janet Leigh ... Morgana
James Donald ... Egbert
Alexander Knox ... Father Godwin
Maxine Audley ... Enid
Frank Thring ... Aella

Description: Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior while the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana.

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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Sweet smell of success (1957) - classic film noir drama directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Susan Harrison

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... J.J. Hunsecker
Tony Curtis ... Sidney Falco
Susan Harrison ... Susan Hunsecker
Martin Milner ... Steve Dallas (as Marty Milner)
Sam Levene ... Frank D' Angelo
Barbara Nichols ... Rita
Jeff Donnell ... Sally
Joe Frisco ... Herbie Temple
Emile Meyer ... Lt. Harry Kello
Edith Atwater ... Mary
The Chico Hamilton Quintet ... Themselves

Description: J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney Falco, a sleazy and unscrupulous press agent, to break up the affair by any means possible...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/sQ8j5V9tCbs

Also a set of extras included:

* Mackendrick: The man who walked away - documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill and others (1986, 44:40 min)
* James Wong Howe: Cinematographer - documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials (1973, 21:50 min)
* James Mangold on Alexander Mackendrick - documentary featuring director James Mangold who studied under Alexander Mackendrick in the early eighties, as an undergrad at Cal Arts (2011, 24:52 min)
* Neal Gabler on Winchell - documentary featuring an American journalist, writer and film critic Neal Gabler talking about a syndicated American fast-talking gossip columnist and radio broadcaster Walter Winchell, on which J.J. Hunsecker's character was loosely based (2011, 28:57 min)
* Theatrical trailer - (3:06 min)

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.01 GB, 3045 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 960*576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 114
Audio : 133/133 MB (main/commentary), 192/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x2000 = AC3/AC3, CBR/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, German, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by film scholar James Naremore. 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)