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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - film adaptation of Agatha Christie novel

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071877/

Cast

Albert Finney ... Hercule Poirot
Lauren Bacall ... Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard
Martin Balsam ... Signor Bianchi
Ingrid Bergman ... Greta Ohlsson
Jacqueline Bisset ... Countess Andrenyi
Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Pierre Paul Michel
Sean Connery ... Colonel Arbuthnot
John Gielgud ... Mr. Beddoes
Wendy Hiller ... Princess Dragomiroff
Anthony Perkins ... Hector Willard MacQueen
Vanessa Redgrave ... Mary Debenham
Rachel Roberts ... Hildegarde Schmidt
Richard Widmark ... Mr. Ratchett
Michael York ... Count Andrenyi

Description: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express. One of the passengers requests his protection, but Poirot declines. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment and Poirot is asked to solve the case. The train is forced to stop due to a snow drift blocking the tracks. This gives him a few hours to figure out the murderer's identity before the local police take over the investigation. During his investigation, Poirot discovers that many of the passengers have some connection to a 5 year old case where an infant was kidnapped and murdered in which the mastermind escaped prosecution. This lead to the death (during childbirth) of the mother and the suicide of her father. This could be the vital clue to crack the case, but can he do it in time?

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Unfaithfully yours (1948) - classic black comedy with Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Preston Sturges
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0040919/

Cast

Rex Harrison ... Sir Alfred De Carter
Linda Darnell ... Daphne De Carter
Rudy Vallee ... August Henshler
Barbara Lawrence ... Barbara Henshler
Kurt Kreuger ... Anthony Windborn
Lionel Stander ... Hugo Standoff
Edgar Kennedy ... Detective Sweeney

Description: Rex Harrison stars as an English aristocrat and conductor who, despite being madly in love with his wife (Linda Darnell) realizes as a result of several misunderstandings that she may be cheating on him. He imagines his wife was consorting with his secretary, Tony (Kurt Krueger). As he conducts the orchestra in concert that evening, Harrison imagines several scenarios - one in which he kills his wife and cleverly frames Tony for the murder; one in which he pays her off; and one where he challenges Tony to a game of Russian roulette. Of course, when he actually tries to carry them out, things don't go quite as he imagined.

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Download links:

https://rapidshare.com/files/480030717/Unfaithfully yours.torrent

+ extra material ("Be vulgar, by any means", a video introduction by Terry Jones, “Faithfully Yours”, a video interview with Sandy Sturges and Sandy Sturges reading portions from "Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges", 410 MB to download)

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.17 GB, 1593 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD 1.2.1
Audio : 290 MB (2 audio tracks), 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3

English (SUB/IDX) and Spanish (SRT) subtitles + sample and theatrical trailer included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is audio commentary by Sturges scholars James Harvey, Diane Jacobs and Brian Henderson. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks or you can use VirtualDub to get rid of any of audio tracks by following these steps:

1. Download Virtualdub from that WWW address:

http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html

2. Download your version, unzip the files, start the program by running VirtualDub.exe

3. From “File” tab choose “Open video file” and find your dual audio file on your HDD (or you can simply drag and drop movie file into program window)

4. If any warining window pops up, just click on “OK”

5. From “Video” tab choose “Direct stream copy” option (very important, do not miss that step)

6. From “Audio” tab choose which audio stream you want to use, usually English is Stream 1, and commentary is on Stream 2, but to be 100 % sure use preview option that VD provides by clicking on “Play” button on the butttom of program window when video file is loaded. Of course you can get rid of original audio and save the file with commentary that way too, just by choosing other stream

7. From “File” tab choose “Save AVI file”, put movie name and choose destination folder and then click on OK. Program will start its job after no more than 2 minutes your only one audio track movie should be ready.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Big deal on Madonna Street aka I soliti ignoti (1958) - classic Italian crime/comedy movie

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 107 min
Language: Italian
Country: Italy
Directed by: Mario Monicelli
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052216/

Cast

Vittorio Gassman ... Peppe il pantera
Marcello Mastroianni ... Tiberio
Totò ... Dante Cruciani
Renato Salvatori ... Mario Angeletti
Memmo Carotenuto ... Cosimo
Carla Gravina ... Nicoletta
Claudia Cardinale ... Carmelina
Carlo Pisacane ... Capannelle

Description: Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Though they are advised by Dante, a retired burglar, the task is not so easy...

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

CRC errors on latest upgrades

For some strange reason all of recent upgrades got multiple CRC errors and therefore users are not able to extract fileses sucessfully.

I dont know what might be the reason, maybe RARing process while using Winrar or too fast speed while burning files to DVDs, but all of these latest upgraded files have been deleted and will be re-uploaded in near future.

I'd like to thank you all the users that reported errors and apologise for all inconvenience caused

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)