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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Stalag 17 (1953) - classic war movie directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, Otto Preminger, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss and Harvey Lembeck

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 120 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/

Cast

William Holden ... Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Don Taylor ... Lt. James Dunbar
Otto Preminger ... Oberst von Scherbach
Robert Strauss ... Sgt. Stanislaus 'Animal' Kuzawa
Harvey Lembeck ... Sgt. Harry Shapiro
Richard Erdman ... Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
Peter Graves ... Sgt. Frank Price

Description: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. For the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem - there seems to be a security leak. The Germans always seem to be forewarned about escapes and in the most recent attempt the two men, Manfredi and Johnson, walked straight into a trap and were killed. For some in Barracks 4, especially the loud-mouthed Duke, the leaker is obvious: J.J. Sefton, a wheeler-dealer who doesn't hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges that no other prisoner seems to have. Sefton denies giving the Germans any information and makes it quite clear that he has no intention of ever trying to escape. He plans to ride out the war in what little comfort he can arrange, but it doesn't extend to spying for the Germans. As tensions mount and mob mentality takes root, it becomes obvious Sefton will have to find the real German agent in their midst...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/kEueKzTw5pC

Video and audio information:

Video : 4.31 GB, 5118 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 776x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 115/67 (main/commentary), 132/78 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Chinese closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton and co-playwright Donald Bevan. 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)

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Help me spread the word...

Hi there :)

As you can see, I just added some widgets to the site, that allow any of you, my dear visitors, to add my site or any particular article to social and bookmarking services, like

delicicious.com
digg.com
myspace.com
facebook.com
stumbleupon.com

or even to Twitter.com

You can find it at the end of each posts, these two small gadgets

So if you liked any of my post, use any of services provided and would like to help spread the word on the web, please use this feature, especially twitter, so your followers could also become my followers

That would be very kind of you :)

Thank you in advance :)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Rebel without a cause (1955) - James Dean

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0048545/

Cast

James Dean ... Jim Stark
Natalie Wood ... Judy
Sal Mineo ... John 'Plato' Crawford
Jim Backus ... Frank Stark
Ann Doran ... Mrs. Carol Stark
Corey Allen ... Buzz Gunderson
William Hopper ... Judy's Father

Description: Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Night of the demon aka Curse of the demom (1957) - Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050766/

Cast

Dana Andrews ... Dr. John Holden
Peggy Cummins ... Joanna Harrington
Niall MacGinnis ... Dr. Julian Karswell
Maurice Denham ... Professor Henry Harrington
Athene Seyler ... Mrs. Karswell
Liam Redmond ... Professor Mark O'Brien

Description: Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Jezebel (1938) - Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030287/

Cast

Bette Davis ... Julie
Henry Fonda ... Preston Dillard
George Brent ... Buck Cantrell
Margaret Lindsay ... Amy
Donald Crisp ... Dr. Livingstone
Fay Bainter ... Aunt Belle

Description: Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiancé Preston Dillard, a successful young banker. Julie's sensitive but domineering personality--she does not want so much to hurt as to assert her independence--forces a wedge between Preston and herself. To win him back, she plays North against South amid a deadly epidemic of yellow fever which claims a surprising victim.

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Download links:

http://rapidshare.com/files/390578322/Jez__bel.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390580950/Jez__bel.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390583545/Jez__bel.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390586073/Jez__bel.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390588516/Jez__bel.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390591192/Jez__bel.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390593906/Jez__bel.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/390595461/Jez__bel.part8.rar

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.25 GB, 1730 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 608*448 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 143 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x2000 = AC3,

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, Romanian) + sample + theatrical trailer ( 27 MB)

http://rapidshare.com/files/390947254/Jez_subs_sample.rar

Password: www.onlyoldmovies.info

DUAL AUDIO TRACK

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the second is commentary from movie historician. 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.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Shanghai Express (1932) - Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 79 min
Language: English/French/Cantonese/German
Country: USA
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023458/

Cast

Marlene Dietrich ... Shanghai Lily, aka Magdalen
Clive Brook ... Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey
Anna May Wong ... Hui Fei
Warner Oland ... Mr. Henry Chang
Eugene Pallette ... Sam Salt
Lawrence Grant ... Reverend Mr. Carmichael

Description: Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lily before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow passenger defines a coaster as "a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast." When Chinese guerillas stop the train, Dr. Harvey is selected as the hostage. Lily saves him, but can she make him believe that she really hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years before?

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

jDownloader tutorial made by me

OK guys, as using of jDownloader for many people seem to be endless confusion and they can`t get it started, I prepared my own tutorial, that should help all people, with free or premium access

For some strange reason thumbnails were not displayed correctly when I tried to upload them to external image hosters, so I had to put them on Blogger, they are not so clear, so you have to click on them to enlarge

A. Downloading and instalation:

1) Go to

http://jdownloader.org/download

Choose your language, your platform, and then download from one of hosts provided (on the thumbnail provided below, I chose Windows version for Windows, for some strange reason language on the screen is Spanish, but you just have to download the file)

2) Start download from host of your choice, when finished, unpack instalation file to directory of your choice

3) Create a shortcut on your desktop, as shown below in Image A, so you can find the application easily in the future.

4) When you start it up, pick the language you want as shown in Item 1, image B, and also download directory as shown in Item 2

5) Next you will be asked if you want to integrate jDownloader with your browser. Just select “Cancel” as shown in Image C.

6) You will now be asked if you want to install Click’n’Load. (Image D). Just select “Cancel”.

7) Sometimes there will be dialog boxes asking if you want to install updates (Image E), or saying that updates have been made (Image F). Just click “OK” for any of these dialog boxes which appear.

B. Using program to download from RS ( free and premium)

A. Free users

8) The main jDownloader interface opens up. From "Links" menu choose "Add links" and then "Add container" or simply Ctrl + O

9) Program will now check the link, just click on Linkgrabber Tab, when it is done and all links are working fine, click on "Continue" button. If option "Start after adding" is checked, download will start automatically

10. Most of the files on the blog are passworded, so you may want to add the password, just double click on container and add the password as shown below, dont forget to check "Extract" option, so program could extract the files automatically, without any human assistance

11. Now the program will download files one by one, with all waiting times between the files being processed automatically, files CRC checked etc. etc. If your provider enables it and you are advanced user, you can even reconnect your modem after each file, and skip waiting times in "Settings"=> "Modules" => "Advanced". I never tried that as I use premium, but it is another option, if you know how to do that, if you dont know, or can`t change your IP, you just download one file after another as usual

12. If everything is all right, after successful download, you will get your file in download directory

B. Premium users

1) Download and install as described below, before adding container file go to "Premium" and then "Premium Settings" as shown below. Enter you login data, and after checking them program will add premium accounts to its database. If you got more than 1 premium account, you can add all of them, and then switch between them as shown below

2) You can set Maximum Connections (Item 1) and Maximum Downloads (Item 2) values as well as throttle your download speed (in Kb/s, is set to 0 your download speed is unlimited, Item 3) if you want use your browser at the same time, all these settings in right down corner of the program window (feel free to set them to your connection and convenience, but from other users experience I may tell you that setting maximum simultaneous connections to more than 5-6 sometime may lead to RS blocking access for excessive use, 5-6 is just OK, setting to higher values will not help you in any way)

That should be all, you can of course switch on/off link grabber in settings, use it for usual set of links, just copy it, and link grabber will do its work as described above, you can set your preffered language and many, many other options for your convenience

I hope that tutorial will help all the people that can`t make jDownloader work... Feel free to ask questions in comments

Friday, October 30, 2009

Some small issues

Hello everyone...

First of all, could you please let me know if the password for my last submission of "Love affair" is OK? It was an old upload and I wasnt sure, I tried to download first file and extact, using www.onlyoldmovies.blogspot.com and everything went fine, but I got some reports that the pass is www.onlyoldmovies.info... Little strange...

Second thing...I know a lot of people dont like all these recent changes, switching to jDownloader, but as I can see from number of downloads...the number is very, very low now...sometimes DLC file is downloaded e.g 30 times but actual files downloads is 5-8...is the latest content not interested or something else?

Re-uploads...some of the files were gone, some are still to be re-uploaded, replaced, but...as I can the interest is rather poor lately, as for all files, but here even worse, lot of people were whinning: "re-upload this", "Dead links, please add new ones" etc. etc. but when the files are finally back online, no one downloads them, so what is the points of re-uploading beside my joy of all the content being online? I spent countless hours, I think couple of hundreds this year only to get what is it now, but sometimes I am embarassed of all effects of this...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Love affair (1939) - Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in a classic romance

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 87 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Leo McCarey
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031593/

Cast

Irene Dunne ... Terry McKay
Charles Boyer ... Michel Marnet
Maria Ouspenskaya ... Grandmother Janou
Lee Bowman ... Kenneth Bradley
Astrid Allwyn ... Lois Clarke

Description: While in a cruise from Europe to New York to get married with his fiancée and heir of a great fortune in USA, the bachelor sportsman Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets the gorgeous former night-club singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne), who is returning to her supportive boy-friend, and they have a love affair and fall in love for each other. They schedule to reunite on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building six months later, on July 1st, to decide whether they should marry each other or not.

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