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Sunday, August 21, 2011

A tale of two cities (1958) - classic drama based on Charles Dickens novel

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 112 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Ralph Thomas
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052270/

Cast

Dirk Bogarde ... Sydney Carton
Dorothy Tutin ... Lucie Manette
Paul Guers ... Charles Darnay
Marie Versini ... Marie Gabelle
Ian Bannen ... Gabelle
Cecil Parker ... Jarvis Lorry
Stephen Murray ... Dr. Manette
Christopher Lee ... Marquis St. Evremonde

Description: During the French Revolution, French national Lucie Manette meets and falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay. He is however hiding his true identity as a member of the French aristocratic Evrémonde family, who he has denounced in private. The Marquis St. Evrémonde in particular was a cruel man, those he wronged who have vowed to see the end of the family line at any cost. Lucie's father Dr. Alexandre Manette, in fact, was imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years because of actions of the Marquis. Into their lives comes English barrister Sydney Carton, who enjoys his alcohol to excess. Carton earlier defended Darnay in a trial on trumped up charges of treason. Carton doesn't really like Darnay in part because Carton also loves Lucie, he realizing that that love is unrequited. But Carton does eventually learn of Darnay's true heritage at a critical time...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://rapidshare.com/files/795693922/A Tale of Two Cities (1958).torrent

+ extra material - interviews with Ralph Thomas, Dorothy Tutin and Christopher Lee

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.33 GB, 1699 Kbps, 25 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD 1.2.0.dev47
Audio : 180 MB, 224 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3

Engllish subtitles (for both main movie and interviews) + theatrical trailer included

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Shock Corridor (1963) - classic drama from director Samuel Fuller

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 101 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057495/

Cast

Peter Breck ... Johnny Barrett
Constance Towers ... Cathy
Gene Evans ... Boden
James Best ... Stuart
Hari Rhodes ... Trent

Description: Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem...

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Cape Fear (1962) - Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum in classic crime movie

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055824/

Cast

Gregory Peck ... Sam Bowden
Robert Mitchum ... Max Cady
Polly Bergen ... Peggy Bowden
Lori Martin ... Nancy Bowden
Martin Balsam ... Police Chief Mark Dutton
Jack Kruschen ... Attorney Dave Grafton
Telly Savalas ... Private Detective Charles Sievers

Description: Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family, particularly targeting Bowden's daughter, Nancy. Initially, Cady uses his newfound knowledge of the law (learned in prison) to annoy the Bowdens, then poisons the family dog... Who's next ?

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

The awful truth (1937) - Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in classic screwball comedy

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Leo McCarey
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028597/

Cast

Irene Dunne ... Lucy Warriner
Cary Grant ... Jerry Warriner
Ralph Bellamy ... 'Dan' Leeson
Alexander D'Arcy ... Armand Duvalle
Cecil Cunningham ... Aunt Patsy
Molly Lamont ... Barbara Vance
Esther Dale ... Mrs. Leeson
Joyce Compton ... Dixie Belle Lee
Robert Allen ... Frank Randall

Description: Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson. Among their strategies: Jerry's court-decreed visitation rights with Mr. Smith, their pet fox terrier, and Lucy sends flamboyant Dixie Belle Lee to impersonate Jerry's brassy "sister" before his prospective bride's scandalized family.

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Angels with dirty faces (1938) - James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in classic film noir flick

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029870/

Cast

James Cagney ... Rocky Sullivan
Pat O'Brien ... Fr. Jerry Connelly
Humphrey Bogart ... Jim Frazier
Ann Sheridan ... Laury Ferguson
George Bancroft ... Mac Keefer
Billy Halop ... Soapy
Bobby Jordan ... Swing
Leo Gorcey ... Bim
Gabriel Dell ... Pasty
Huntz Hall ... Crab

Description: In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and charges his former partner, the lawyer James Frazier, his US$ 100,000.00 and his share in the society, and is betrayed. Meanwhile, he becomes the idol of the street kids in the neighborhood. Although following opposite paths in life, Rocky and Jerry are still friends. When Jerry decides to fight against the corruption, Rocky is put against the wall between his friendship with the priest, and his society in dirty businesses with his criminal partners.

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Love in the afternoon (1957) - Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn in Billy Wilder comedy

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 130 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050658/

Cast

Gary Cooper ... Frank Flannagan
Audrey Hepburn ... Ariane Chavasse/Thin Girl
Maurice Chevalier ... Claude Chavasse
Van Doude ... Michel
John McGiver ... Monsieur X
Lise Bourdin ... Madame X
Bonifas ... Commissioner of Polilce (phoned by Ariane)

Description: Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.54 GB, 1700 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704*400 (16:9), XviD = XviD 1.2.0.dev47
Audio : 179 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French as SUB/IDX files + Turkish, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, Romanian in SRT/TXT format) + sample ( 16 MB)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

The big knife (1955) - classic film noir directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters

Rating 6.8/10
Runtime: 114 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047880/

Cast

Jack Palance ... Charles Castle
Ida Lupino ... Marion Castle
Wendell Corey ... Smiley Coy
Jean Hagen ... Connie Bliss
Rod Steiger ... Stanley Shriner Hoff
Shelley Winters ... Dixie Evans
Ilka Chase ... Patty Benedict
Everett Sloane ... Nat Danziger
Wesley Addy ... Horatio Hank Teagle

Description: Hollywood movie star Charlie Castle, under contract at Hoff-Federated Studios, is being pressured by studio chief, Stanley Hoff, and Hoff's right-hand man, Smiley Coy, to sign a seven year renewal deal, something that Charlie is reluctant to do. Life at Hoff-Federated has already taken its toll on his marriage, his wife Marion having moved out of their Bel Air mansion with their son Billy, as there is as much focus if not more on the extracurricular activities as there is on the movie making, Charlie having previously cheated on Marion, including with his faithful agent Buddy Bliss' sexually aggressive wife, Connie Bliss. In addition, both Charlie and Marion have been unhappy that the movies at the studio have and are not with the substance that either envisioned. To save the marriage as Marion has threatened leaving him for good if he signs, their mutual friend, writer Hank Teagle, who has already proposed to her, Charlie is willing to walk away from Hollywood altogether rather than sign with another studio to give Hoff the satisfaction that no one else in the business would benefit. The issue in the background is that Hoff and Smiley are well aware of the truth of Charlie being behind a vehicular death for which Buddy took the fall, Buddy having served ten months in prison for it, this information always present whether of not it is spoken or if Hoff would use it to pressure Charlie into signing. Beyond Hoff and Smiley, one other person is aware of what really happened, she starlet Dixie Evans, also under contract at Hoff-Federated. Dixie, who Hoff uses more as window dressing at studio parties than in any substantive movie roles, may inadvertently divulge this information in her anger and unhappiness with life at Hoff-Federated.

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Monday, April 11, 2011

The Stranger (1946) - classic film noir starring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Orson Welles
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038991/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Mr. Wilson
Orson Welles ... Professor Charles Rankin
Loretta Young ... Mary Longstreet
Philip Merivale ... Judge Adam Longstreet
Richard Long ... Noah Longstreet
Konstantin Shayne ... Konrad Meinike
Byron Keith ... Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
Billy House ... Mr. Potter
Martha Wentworth ... Sara

Description: Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in.

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

The big combo (1955) - Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte in classic film noir

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 87 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047878/

Cast

Cornel Wilde ... Police Lt. Leonard Diamond
Richard Conte ... Mr. Brown
Brian Donlevy ... Joe McClure
Jean Wallace ... Susan Lowell
Robert Middleton ... Police Capt. Peterson
Lee Van Cleef ... Fante
Earl Holliman ... Mingo
Helen Walker ... Alicia Brown
Jay Adler ... Detective Sam Hill
John Hoyt ... Nils Dreyer

Description: Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 929 MB, 1483 Kbps, 25 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD 1.0.2
Audio : 120 MB, 160 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer 3

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966) - Jean-Pierre Léaud in Jean-Luc Godard flick

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060675/

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud ... Paul
Chantal Goya ... Madeleine
Marlène Jobert ... Elisabeth
Michel Debord ... Robert
Catherine-Isabelle Duport ... Catherine-Isabelle
Eva-Britt Strandberg ... Elle (la femme dans le film)
Birger Malmsten ... Lui (l'homme dans le film)
Brigitte Bardot ... Herself (uncredited)

Description: This low-budget, black and white film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl). Despite markedly different musical tastes and political leanings, the two soon become romantically involved and begin a ménage à quatre with Madeleine’s two roommates, Catherine (Catherine-Isabelle Duport) and Elisabeth (Marlène Jobert). Ostensibly basing his film on two stories by Guy de Maupassant, Godard mixes off-the-cuff reportage and mise en scène to create a strikingly honest portrait of youth and sex, with Godard’s camera probing his young actors in a series of vérité-style interviews about love, love-making, and politics.

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+ extra material with English subtitles included (811 MB to download)

1. Archival 1966 interview with actress Chantal Goya (4:50)
2. 2005 Interview with Chantal Goya (15:08)
3. 2005 Interview with Willy Kurant (11:55)
4. 2005 Interview with Jean-Pierre Gorin (15:36)
5. Video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni (24:55)
6. Swedish television footage of Godard directing the “film within the film” scene (4:07)

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.10 GB, 1502 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD 1.1.2
Audio : 144 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese) + sample + original theatrical trailer + Rialto Pictures rerelease trailer (48 MB)