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Saturday, May 9, 2009

A place in the sun (1951) - Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: George Stevens
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043924/

Cast

Montgomery Clift ... George Eastman
Elizabeth Taylor ... Angela Vickers
Shelley Winters ... Alice Tripp
Anne Revere ... Hannah Eastman
Keefe Brasselle ... Earl Eastman
Fred Clark ... Bellows, defense attorney
Raymond Burr ... Dist. Atty. R. Frank Marlowe

Description: Young up-and-comer George Eastman is thrust into the blue collar life of a rich uncle's family business where he's expected to learn the ropes from the bottom up. While paying his dues, Eastman becomes involved with Alice Tripp, a simple, trusting girl on the assembly line. When Eastman is finally introduced to high society he meets the gorgeous, sophisticated Angela Vickers and promptly forgets all about Alice. Only Alice won't be gotten rid of so easily - especially since their affair is about to result in an unexpected and (especially from Eastman) unwanted dividend.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Les quatre cents coups aka The 400 Blows (1959)

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Francois Truffaut
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud ... Antoine Doinel
Claire Maurier ... Gilberte Doinel, the Mother
Albert Rémy ... Julien Doinel
Guy Decomble ... 'Petite Feuille', the French teacher
Georges Flamant ... Mr. Bigey
Patrick Auffay ... René
Daniel Couturier ... Les enfants

Description: A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits a Paris of dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child's eye.

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Download links:

http://rapidshare.com/files/284915948/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284915348/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284914336/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916077/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916650/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284915189/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916389/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284915522/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284915835/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284914633/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916552/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916618/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part12.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916060/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part13.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916571/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part14.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284916740/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part15.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/284915266/L_Quatre_C_Coups.part16.rar

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.27 GB, 1828 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704*304, XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 57 MB, 80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = Lame MP3

Subtitles (English, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Croatian) + sample (8.3 MB)

http://rapidshare.com/files/298360512/400Blows_subs_sample.rar

Password: www.onlyoldmovies.blogspot.com

SOME INFO

That movie has three audio track, one is original movie, and the other two are French and English commentary. If you wanna get rid of the commentary and leave only main audio track, please follow the instructions (the same may be used for dual language files, e.g English and Spanish that are quite common on the internet)

Remeber that YOU CAN ALSO USE VLC PLAYER, WHICH CAN PLAY AUDIO TRACKS OF YOUR CHOICE!!

1. Download latest version of AVI-Mux GUI from author`s site

http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/

2. Open the archive, unpack to destination of your choice, run the program

3. Right click in main window and choose "Add", locate your dual audio movie and click "Open"

4. Double click your movie, the program will list all movie tracks, 1 video and dual or more audio

5. Main, English track is usually with higher bitrate and bigger size (which is listed next to audio track name)

6. Uncheck non-English audio track, leave English track checked and make sure you unchceck "All audio tracks" and "No audio" boxes just above tracks list

7, Click on "Start" button in the bottom area, choose destination of your file, and start re-coding, that should take not more than a minute and your one-track-file is ready to use. If you are not sure which of audio tracks is English, just right click on track`s name and choose "Extract binary", that will save audio file on your hard drive (in .mp3 or .ac3 format depending on your file), after that just open extracted file in your audio player to check the language

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) - classic western directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming and Jo Van Fleet

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 118 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Sturges
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050468/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Marshal Wyatt Earp
Kirk Douglas ... Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday
Rhonda Fleming ... Laura Denbow
Jo Van Fleet ... Kate Fisher
John Ireland ... Johnny Ringo
Lyle Bettger ... Ike Clanton
Frank Faylen ... Sheriff Cotton Wilson
Earl Holliman ... Deputy Sheriff Charles 'Charlie' Bassett

Description: After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/phxiyq5s

Audio and video information: (to be added later)

Video :
Audio :

Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Ninotchka (1939) - classic comedy from director Ernst Lubitsch , starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas and Bela Lugosi

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 110 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031725/

Cast

Greta Garbo ... Ninotchka
Melvyn Douglas ... Leon
Ina Claire ... Swana
Bela Lugosi ... Razinin
Sig Ruman ... Iranoff
Felix Bressart ... Buljanoff

Description: Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. So the three Russians who have come to sell the jewels settle into the suite until a higher ranking official is dispatched to find out what is delaying the sale. She is Ninotchka, a no nonsense woman who fascinates Count Leon who had been the faithful retainer of the Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess will give up all claim to the jewels if Ninotchka will fly away from the count. But can one count on a count?

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/g6ieecsa

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.29 GB, 2969 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (`.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 95 MB, 120 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Where the sidewalk ends (1950) - Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney in classic film noir directed by Otto Preminger

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Otto Preminger
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043132/

Cast

Dana Andrews ... Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon (16th Precinct)
Gene Tierney ... Morgan Taylor (Paine)
Gary Merrill ... Tommy Scalise
Bert Freed ... Det. Sgt. Paul Klein (Dixon's partner)
Tom Tully ... Jiggs Taylor, Morgan's Father
Karl Malden ... Det. Lt. Thomas (16th Precinct Detectives commander)
Ruth Donnelly ... Martha, Owner of Martha's Cafe
Craig Stevens ... Ken Paine

Description: Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon always wanted to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. But for a good guy, he's awfully vicious. After several complaints over his roughing people up, his boss, Insp. Nicholas Foley, demotes him. Foley tells him he's a good man, but needs to get his head on straight and be more like Det. Lt. Thomas, who has just gotten a promotion. Meanwhile, Tommy Scalise has an illegal dice game going and is looking to make a sucker out of the rich Ted Morrison, who was brought in by Ken Paine and his beautiful wife Morgan. She figures out too late her husband is using her as a decoy. Paine strikes her when she refuses to play along. The chivalrous Morrison intervenes but Paine knocks him out cold. That seems to be the worst of it, but later it turns out the guy is dead; and Paine looks guilty. Soon Dixon has fallen in love with Morgan - but not before losing his temper again and committing a terrible deed that he tries to cover up. Morgan's father, a tale-spinning taxi driver, may take the rap for it. It's up to Dixon to try to pin the blame on Scalise.

Screens (to be posted later):

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/yrf1l7o3

Video and audio information (to be posted later):

Video :
Audio :

Subtitles (to be posted later)

Dual audio track

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the second is commentary by film noir historian Eddie Muller. 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, April 15, 2009

Gilda (1946) - Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in classic flm noir

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 106 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Charles Vidor
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038559/

Cast

Rita Hayworth ... Gilda Mundson Farrell
Glenn Ford ... Johnny Farrell/Narrator
George Macready ... Ballin Mundson
Joseph Calleia ... Det. Maurice Obregon
Steven Geray ... Uncle Pio
Joe Sawyer ... Casey
Gerald Mohr ... Capt. Delgado

Description: Johnny, a professional gambler becomes the right hand of Balin, the owner of an illegal casino in Buenos Aires. This post becomes stressy, when Balin marries Gilda, the ex-friend of Johnny. She is having affaires with others, and Johnny has to do a lot, that Balin doesn't get informed about this. Due to some other illegal things Balin does, he has to leave Argentinia in a way, that he seems to be dead for everybody. After this Johnny marries Gilda, but not because he loves her, but because he wants to punish her of not beeing faithful to Balin. But things are not going in the way Johnny has planed.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Easter Parade (1948) - Fred Astaire, Judy Garland in classic Easter musical

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Charles Walters
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040308/

Cast

Judy Garland ... Hannah Brown
Fred Astaire ... Don Hewes
Peter Lawford ... Jonathan Harrow III
Ann Miller ... Nadine Hale
Jules Munshin ... François
Clinton Sundberg ... Mike the Bartender
Richard Beavers ... Singer

Description: On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protegee Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

The bridge on the river Kwai (1957) - Alec Guinness, William Holden starring in classic war drama directed by David Lean

Rating 8.5/10
Runtime: 161 min
Language: English/Japanese/Thai
Country: USA/UK
Directed by: David Lean
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0050212/

Cast

Alec Guinness ... Col. Nicholson
William Holden ... Cmdr. Shears
Jack Hawkins ... Maj. Warden
Sessue Hayakawa ... Col. Saito
James Donald ... Maj. Clipton
Geoffrey Horne ... Lt. Joyce
André Morell ... Col. Green
Peter Williams ... Capt. Reeves
John Boxer ... Maj. Hughes
Percy Herbert ... Pvt. Grogan

Description: British WW2 prisoners of war are given the task, by their Japanese captors, of building a railway bridge in a harsh Asian jungle. Led by Col Nicholson, a stereotypical British officer, the prisoners score a moral victory over the Japanese by not only building the bridge, but running the whole show. Unfortunately, unknown to Nicholson, an allied demolition team are planning a spectacular opening for the bridge.

Screens (to be updated later):

Download links (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/u57r2bc9

Video and audio information (to be updated later):

Video :
Audio :

Subtitles (to be updated later)

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Mildred Pierce (1945) - Joan Crawford in Michael Curtiz film-noir

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913/

Cast

Joan Crawford ... Mildred Pierce Beragon
Jack Carson ... Wally Fay
Zachary Scott ... Monte Beragon
Eve Arden ... Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth ... Veda Pierce Forrester
Bruce Bennett ... Albert ('Bert') Pierce

Description: Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. They soon divorce, leaving Mildred to raise the girls on her own. Elder daughter Veda goads her mother about their lack of money and in response Mildred proposes opening a small restaurant. Realtor Wally Fay advises her while making numerous rebuffed passes and introduces her to Monte Baragon whose property becomes the first of a chain of restaurants. Mildred has an affair with Monte. Meanwhile, money-hungry Veda pretends to be pregnant by wealthy Ted Forrester in order to bilk his family of $10,000. Mildred tears up the check, is slapped by Veda, and orders her daughter to leave. After time away, Mildred returns to find Veda singing in a cheap club. Veda will return only if Mildred promises luxury, so Mildred agrees to marry Monte in exchange for a third of her businesses. It soon becomes clear that something is going on between Veda and Monte. Mildred learns of this only after Monte has sold out his third of the her business leaving her bankrupt. She goes to Monte's beach house to kill him... Shots ring out, but what really happened?

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Friday, April 3, 2009

This gun for hire (1942) - Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 81 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Frank Tuttle
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035432/

Cast

Veronica Lake ... Ellen Graham
Robert Preston ... Det. Michael Crane
Laird Cregar ... Willard Gates
Alan Ladd ... Philip Raven
Tully Marshall ... Alvin Brewster
Marc Lawrence ... Tommy

Description: Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy.

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Monday, March 30, 2009

More of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd?

Anybody?

Do you want more of them? Or maybe I should post another flick? :)

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Body and soul (1947) - John Garfield, Lilli Palmer

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 106 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Rossen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039204/

Cast

John Garfield ... Charlie Davis
Lilli Palmer ... Peg Born
Hazel Brooks ... Alice
Anne Revere ... Anna Davis
William Conrad ... Quinn
Joseph Pevney ... Shorty Polaski
Lloyd Gough ... Roberts

Description: Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

From here to eternity (1953) - Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
Montgomery Clift ... Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Deborah Kerr ... Karen Holmes
Donna Reed ... Alma Burke (Lorene)
Frank Sinatra ... Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Philip Ober ... Capt. Dana 'Dynamite' Holmes
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Cpl. Leva
Harry Bellaver ... Pvt. Mazzioli
Ernest Borgnine ... Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

Description: It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box anymore, so Captain Holmes gets his subordinates to make his life a living hell. Meanwhile Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, who has a history of seeking external relief from a troubled marriage. Prew's friend Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson, and Prew begins falling in love with social club employee Lorene. Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the distance.

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Download links:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/2y3gicfsdr6r/n/From_here_to_eternity_1953_torrent

Also included additional extras (with English, French, Dutch, German, Italian subtitles)

* Featurette "The Making Of From Here To Eternity"
* Excerpt from "Fred Zinnemann: As I See It" (80 MB)

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.32 GB, 1670 Kbps, 25 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD MPEG-4 1.2.1
Audio : 60 MB, 74 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = Lame MP3

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish (in IDX/SUB format) included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is additional audio commentary by Tim Zinnemann (son of the director) and actor Alvin Sargent. 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 warning 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.