Thursday, May 20, 2021

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) - little known film noir directed by Don Siegel, starring Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen and Leo Gordon

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 81 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047417/

Cast

Neville Brand ... James V. Dunn
Emile Meyer ... Warden Reynolds
Frank Faylen ... Commissioner Haskell
Leo Gordon ... Crazy Mike Carnie
Robert Osterloh ... The Colonel
Paul Frees ... Monroe
Don Keefer ... Reporter
Alvy Moore ... Gator

Description: Movie producer, Walter Wanger, who did time, 4 months, after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film which showed the appalling conditions he saw whilst incarcerated. Working with Don Siegel, they wrote this film. In protest to the brutal guards, substandard food, overcrowding and poor living conditions, inmates stage an uprising and take several guards hostage. Negotiations between the inmates and prison officials are stymied, by politicians interfering with the prison administration and by dissension and infighting amongst the inmates.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/gem8e4kn


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.95 GB, 3459 KBps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 60/37 MB (main/commentary), 103/65 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film scholar Matthew H. Bernstein. 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, May 16, 2021

The wild one (1953) - lesser known drama directed by Laslo Benedek, starring Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith and Lee Marvin

Rating 6.8/10
Runtime: 79 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Laslo Benedek
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047677/

Cast

Marlon Brando ... Johnny Strabler
Mary Murphy ... Kathie Bleeker
Robert Keith ... Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Lee Marvin ... Chino
Jay C. Flippen ... Sheriff Stew Singer
Peggy Maley ... Mildred
Hugh Sanders ... Charlie Thomas
Ray Teal ... Frank Bleeker

Description: Cop-hating Johnny Strabler is recounting the fateful events that led up to the "whole mess" as he calls it, his role in the mess and whether he could have stopped it from happening. The Black Rebels, a motorcycle gang of which Johnny is the leader, cause a ruckus using intimidation wherever they go, with their actions bordering on the unlawful. On the day of the mess, they invade a motorcycle racing event, at which they cause a general disturbance culminating with one of the gang members stealing a second place trophy to give to Johnny. Despite not being the larger winning trophy, it symbolizes to Johnny his leadership within the group. Their next stop is a small town where their disturbance and intimidation tactics continue. Some in town don't mind their arrival as long as they spend money. Harry Bleeker, the local sheriff, doesn't much like them but is so ineffective and weak that he doesn't do anything to stop them, much to the annoyance of some of the other townsfolk, who see the gang as being a criminal element not to be tolerated. Johnny is attracted to the innocent Kathie Bleeker, the waitress at the local café, who is initially intimidated by Johnny and the gang. His feelings change when he learns she is Sheriff Bleeker's daughter. The actions of the gang escalates when the Beetles, a splinter group of the Black Rebels, arrive in town. As things start to get out of hand between the gangs, some of the townsfolk, such as Charlie Thomas who is in his own right a bully albeit one of the "establishment", decide to take matters into their own hands.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/LjUdGFGTqah


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.00 GB, 5422 KBps, 23.976 fps, 770x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 146
Audio : 253/37 MB (main/commentary), 448/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


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


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by author and film historian Jeanine Basinger. 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)

Saturday, May 1, 2021

No down payment (1957) - little known social drama from director Martin Ritt, starring Joanne Wodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Owens, Pat Hingle and Barbara Rush

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Martin Ritt
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050771/

Cast

Joanne Woodward ... Leola Boone
Sheree North ... Isabelle Flagg
Tony Randall ... Jerry Flagg
Jeffrey Hunter ... David Martin
Cameron Mitchell ... Troy Boone
Patricia Owens ... Jean Martin
Barbara Rush ... Betty Kreitzer
Pat Hingle ... Herman Kreitzer

Description: The intertwined lives of four couples living in the new housing development, Sunrise Hills Estates, in the suburban American town of Sunrise Hills is presented, their backyards which form the equivalent of the four corners. Sunrise Hills by design is a homogeneous community of white, middle class, Christian families. Each of the four couples enter this living situation from different histories, with some seeing it solely as a stopover to something better while others spend their time trying to make Sunrise Hills the best place to live in seeing it as home in the long run. Regardless of which group into which they fall, each person does regard this living situation as an important and necessary step in their version of the American dream. The financial price for taking this step is being in debt for twenty-five years as houses, cars and other big ticket items can be easily purchased on credit no money down, something not available to people in their standing one generation earlier. That surface homogeneity in particular does not necessarily make for a harmonious community below the surface, especially as there is a natural course of outward neighborliness in everyone being the same and having the same views without that actually being the case.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/caDJ3muaqLW


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.62 GB, 3706 KBps, 23.976 fps, 1024x434 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 324 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired) and Spanish) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, April 11, 2021

The long, hot summer (1958) - classic drama directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 117 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Martin Ritt
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051878/

Cast

Paul Newman ... Ben Quick
Joanne Woodward ... Clara Varner
Anthony Franciosa ... Jody Varner
Orson Welles ... Will Varner
Lee Remick ... Eula Varner
Angela Lansbury ... Minnie Littlejohn
Richard Anderson ... Alan Stewart
Sarah Marshall ... Agnes Stewart

Description: Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner, in ill health, owns many businesses and properties in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he sees as not being able to carry on the Varner name in the style to which he has built around it. Son Jody has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula. He finds twenty-three-year-old daughter Clara clever, but he feels she also wastes her time on more contemplative pursuits. While most of her contemporaries are married, Clara has been dating Alan Stewart, a genteel mama's boy, for six years. Will would not mind Alan so much if he too thought Alan had a bit of a forceful man in him, which he could demonstrate by actually asking Clara to marry him. Conversely, Jody laments that nothing he does is ever good enough for his father, while Clara plain does not like the way he treats them. Into their lives comes Ben Quick, who Jody hired while Will was hospitalized, to do some sharecropping on currently vacant land. Despite Will believing the unsubstantiated stories that Ben burned down someone's barn as an act of vengeance, Will becomes to view Ben as the son he never had, as he is much the same mold. As such, Will does whatever he can to get Ben to be part of the family to carry on the Varner name the way Will wants it be, which means marrying Clara. Through the process, Clara may come to a realization about what she really wants in life, while Jody does whatever he can to retain his position in the family...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/sxm4sgn8


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.05 GB, 3743 KBps, 23.976 fps, 1024x436 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 374 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Gentleman's agreement (1947) - classic drama directed by Elia Kazan, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 118 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Elia Kazan
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/

Cast

Gregory Peck ... Philip Schuyler Green
Dorothy McGuire ... Kathy Lacy
John Garfield ... Dave Goldman
Celeste Holm ... Anne Dettrey
Anne Revere ... Mrs. Green
June Havoc ... Elaine Wales
Albert Dekker ... John Minify
Jane Wyatt ... Jane
Dean Stockwell ... Tommy Green
Sam Jaffe ... Prof. Fred Lieberman

Description: Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. He's not too keen on the series, mostly because he's not sure how to tackle the subject. Then it dawns on him: if he was to pretend to all and sundry that he was Jewish, he could then experience the degree of racism and prejudice that exists and write his story from that perspective. It takes little time for him to experience bigotry. His anger at the way he is treated also affects his relationship with Kathy Lacy, his publisher's niece and the person who suggested the series in the first place...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/3ystkit0


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.31 GB, 2797 KBps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 83/72 MB, 98/84 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English 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, Greek, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Polish) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film critic Richard Schickel and actresses June Havoc and Celeste Holm. 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, March 28, 2021

I walk alone (1948) - another lesser known film noir directed by Byron Haskin, starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Byron Haskin
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039482/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Frankie Madison
Lizabeth Scott ... Kay Lawrence
Kirk Douglas ... Noll 'Dink' Turner
Wendell Corey ... Dave
Kristine Miller ... Mrs. Alexis Richardson
George Rigaud ... Maurice
Marc Lawrence ... Nick Palestro
Mike Mazurki ... Dan

Description: After fourteen years in prison for bootlegging, Frankie Madison is released and returns To New York to meet his friend and partner Noll "Dink" Turner. Madison has an agreement with Dink, who is the manager of a successful nightclub, to share half of his business since he did not rat him when he was caught by the police. Dink uses his mistress Kay Lawrence to learn what Madison's real intention are and his friend Dave to explain that he has the right of less than US$ 3,000,00. Madison is not convinced and when Dink decides to get married to Mrs. Alexis Richardson, Kay teams up with Madison to retrieve his share.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/fspfta03


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.88 GB, 2769 KBps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 155/56 MB, 224/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, 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-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Troy Howarth. 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)

Monday, March 15, 2021

The suspect (1944) - little known film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Charles Laughton and Ella Raines

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 85 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037330/

Cast

Charles Laughton ... Philip
Ella Raines ... Mary
Dean Harens ... John
Stanley Ridges ... Huxley
Henry Daniell ... Mr. Simmons
Rosalind Ivan ... Cora
Molly Lamont ... Mrs. Simmons

Description: In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him with exposure and scandal, driving him to kill her. Thereafter, fortune seems to smile on Philip Marshall; but does fate have a surprise in store?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/6lm1wtey


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.37 GB, 3995 KBps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 85/80 MB, 148/132 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, 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-Brazilian, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Troy Howarth. 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)

Saturday, February 27, 2021

The mob (1951) - little known film noir from director Robert Parrish, starring Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler and Richard Kiley

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 87 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Parrish
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043812/

Cast

Broderick Crawford ... Johnny Damico
Betty Buehler ... Mary Kiernan
Richard Kiley ... Thomas 'Tom' Clancy
Otto Hulett ... Police Lt. Banks
Matt Crowley ... Smoothie
Neville Brand ... Gunner
Ernest Borgnine ... Joe Castro

Description: Police detective Damico, outwitted by mob killer Blackie Clay, botches a murder case and is nominally suspended; actually he goes undercover (as Tim Flynn, ex-con longshoreman) to find Clay and expose the waterfront rackets. In character, Damico throws his weight around so much that the mobsters try to get rid of him; surviving this, he begins to realize that few of those around him are what they seem.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-l8RcNlEAqTZYG9TdP7TV9YI85HqJYL-


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.20 GB, 3645 KBps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 92/50/47 MB, 148/82/76 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/VBR


Subtitles (English 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, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Triple audio track information

This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original English, and the others are commentary by filmmaker Gina Telaroli and Guardian interview with Ernest Borgnine. 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 tracks on Track 2 and Track 3)

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

The lineup (1958) - little known film noir directed by Don Siegel, starring Edi Wallach, Robert Keith and Richard Jaeckel

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 86 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051866/

Cast

Eli Wallach ... Dancer
Robert Keith ... Julian
Richard Jaeckel ... Sandy McLain
Mary LaRoche ... Dorothy Bradshaw
William Leslie ... Larry Warner
Emile Meyer ... Insp. Al Quine
Marshall Reed ... Insp. Fred Asher

Description: In San Francisco, two police inspectors are on the case when a rogue taxi driver, with the help of a rogue porter, manages to steal the suitcase of an antiques collector before running down a cop, who shoots the perp dead before dying himself. Police discover that a statuette in the suitcase contains heroin. Meanwhile, a psychopathic gangster, his malignant mentor, and their dipsomaniac driver have the job of picking up the other heroin shipments, hidden in the luggage of unsuspecting travelers. All goes well until they attempt to retrieve the heroin stuffed in a Japanese doll. A little girl and her young mother have the doll, but when the crooks get possession of it, they find that the heroin has mysteriously vanished.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EG8PoWhF2whWqSnNp3bRttyt_WwGWYU-


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.64 GB, 4372 KBps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 81 MB, 132 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, 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, Turkish, Greek, Italian) posters and screenshots included