Sunday, December 3, 2023

The midnight story (1957) - lesser known film noir directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen and Ted de Corsia

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050704/

Cast

Tony Curtis ... Joe Martini
Marisa Pavan ... Anna Malatesta
Gilbert Roland ... Sylvio Malatesta
Jay C. Flippen ... Sgt. Jack Gillen
Argentina Brunetti ... Mama Malatesta
Ted de Corsia ... Lt. Kilrain
Richard Monda ... Peanuts Malatesta

Description: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.16 GB, 3445 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x436 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 163
Audio : 164/123 (main/commentary), 256/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AC3, CBR/VBR


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


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by professor and film scholar Jason A. Ney. 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, November 25, 2023

Hell is for heroes (1962) - little known war movie directed by Don Siegel, starring Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker and Harry Guardino

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056062/

Cast

Steve McQueen ... Pvt. John Reese
Bobby Darin ... Pvt. Dave Corby
Fess Parker ... Sgt. Bill Pike
Harry Guardino ... Sgt. Jim Larkin
James Coburn ... Cpl. Frank Henshaw
Bob Newhart ... Pvt. James Driscoll
Nick Adams ... Homer Janeczek

Description: World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Private John Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather than face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox...

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Video : 2.04 GB, 3253 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 106/124 (main/commentary), 164/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing imaired), Arabian, Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), French, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese-Brazilian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Swedish, Icelandic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by filmmaker Steve Mitchell and classic cinema historian Steven Jay Rubin. 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, November 19, 2023

The train (1964) - classic war movie directed by John Frankenheimer and Arthur Penn, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau and Michel Simon

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 133 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Frankenheimer/Arthur Penn
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Paul Labiche
Paul Scofield ... Colonel Franz Von Waldheim
Jeanne Moreau ... Christine
Suzanne Flon ... Mademoiselle Villard
Michel Simon ... Papa Boule
Wolfgang Preiss ... Major Herren
Albert Rémy ... Didont
Charles Millot ... Pesquet

Description: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 3.27 GB, 3516 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 960x576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 175/106/193/71/183/61 MB (main mono mix/filtered mono/commentary/commentary/commentary/isolated score), 184/111/192/74/192/64 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/1/2/2/2/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC/AC3/AAC/AC3/AAC, CBR/CBR/VBR/VBR/CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing imaired), Cantonese traditional, Mandarin traditional, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Thai closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Indonesian, Korean, Thai) posters and screenshots included


Multiple audio track information

This movie contains multiple audio tracks, one is original Dual Mono Mix (1994 MGMUA Home Video LaserDisc), and others are Filtered Mono (2014 Twilight Time Blu-ray),commentary by director John Frankenheimer, commentary by film historians Nick Redman, Julie Kirgo and Paul Seydor, commentary by filmmaker/historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films American Realism author Steven Jay Rubin and isolated score by Maurice Jarre. 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 Tracks 2,3,4,5,6)

Monday, November 13, 2023

Storm warning (1951) - little known film noir directed by Stuart Heisler, starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day and Steve Cochran

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044075/

Cast

Ginger Rogers ... Marsha Mitchell
Ronald Reagan ... Burt Rainey
Doris Day ... Lucy Rice
Steve Cochran ... Hank Rice
Hugh Sanders ... Charlie Barr
Lloyd Gough ... Cliff Rummel
Raymond Greenleaf ... Faulkner
Ned Glass ... George Athens

Description: En route to a job, New York-based model Marsha Mitchell decides to stop for under 24 hours in the southern American town of Rock Point to visit her sister Lucy Rice, whom she has not seen in two years, and meet Lucy's husband Hank Rice for the first time. Upon arriving in Rock Point, Marsha witnesses a Ku Klux Klan slaying: she later learns that the victim was Walter Adams, an out-of-town reporter who was to write an exposé on the Klan. Upon later arriving at Lucy's house, Marsha is shocked to see that Hank was one of the Klansmen who committed the murder; Lucy was unaware that he was a Klansman. Marsha decides to confront Hank and Lucy about what she saw. Meanwhile, county prosecutor Burt Rainey knows that the Klan committed the murder, everyone in town is aware, but Rainey knows that no one will come forward to implicate the Klan for what they see as the good of the town. He is also aware that Marsha would have been in the area when the murder was committed and wants to talk to her; he hopes that her outsider status would let her speak freely if she had indeed seen something. Marsha must decide what to say to Rainey, specifically taking into account how best to protect her and Lucy's welfare, which includes the fact that Lucy is pregnant.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.32 GB, 3536 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 67 MB, 100 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Larceny (1948) - little known film noir directed by George Sherman, starring John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters and Dorothy Hart

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: George Sherman
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039950/

Cast

John Payne ... Rick Maxon
Joan Caulfield ... Deborah Owens Clark
Dan Duryea ... Silky Randall
Shelley Winters ... Tory
Dorothy Hart ... Madeline
Richard Rober ... Max
Dan O'Herlihy ... Duke
Nicholas Joy ... Walter Vanderline

Description: John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.34 GB, 3767 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 786x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 65/51 MB (main/commentary), 102/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Dual audio track information

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

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Westward the Women (1951) - little known western directed by William A. Wellman, starring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson and John McIntire

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 117 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William A. Wellman
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044205/

Cast

Robert Taylor ... Buck Wyatt
Denise Darcel ... Fifi Danon
Hope Emerson ... Patience Hawley
John McIntire ... Roy E. Whitman
Julie Bishop ... Laurie Smith
Lenore Lonergan ... Maggie O'Malley
Henry Nakamura ... Ito Kentaro
Marilyn Erskine ... Jean Johnson

Description: In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates, he selects 138 who seem able to survive a month's long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.74 GB, 3358 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 74 MB, 89 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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

Sunday, October 15, 2023

The cowboys (1972) - classic western directed by Mark Rydell, starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst and Robert Carradine

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 134 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Mark Rydell
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068421/

Cast

John Wayne ... Wil Andersen
Roscoe Lee Browne ... Jebediah Nightlinger
Bruce Dern ... Long Hair
Colleen Dewhurst ... Kate
Alfred Barker Jr. ... Fats - Cowboy
Nicolas Beauvy ... Dan - Cowboy
Steve Benedict ... Steve - Cowboy
Robert Carradine ... Slim Honeycutt - Cowboy
Norman Howell - Weedy - Cowboy

Description: When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.69 GB, 2860 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x426 (2.40:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 161
Audio : 616/95 MB (main/commentary), 640/99 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original French, and the other is commentary by director Mark Rydell. 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)

Thursday, October 12, 2023

The fastest gun alive (1956) - lesser known western directed by Russell Rouse, starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain and Broderick Crawford

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Russell Rouse
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049201/

Cast

Glenn Ford ... George Temple, George Kelby Jr.
Jeanne Crain ... Dora Temple
Broderick Crawford ... Vinnie Harold
Russ Tamblyn ... Eric Doolittle
Allyn Joslyn ... Harvey Maxwell
Leif Erickson ... Lou Glover
John Dehner ... Taylor Swope
Noah Beery Jr. ... Dink Wells

Description: Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.67 GB, 2666 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 60 MB, 94 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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


Sunday, October 1, 2023

Actors, Actresses and Directors - Volume 1 - Rock Hudson: All that heaven allowed (2023) and Billy Wilder speaks (2006)

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Stephen Kijak
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt13514636

Cast

Rock Hudson ... Self (archive footage)
Joe Carberry ... Self - Rock Hudson's friend
Tim Turner ... Self - Joe's husband
Lee Garlington ... Self - Rock Hudson's partner
Paul Garlington ... Self - Lee's husband
Ken Jillson ... Self - Rock Hudson's friend
Ken Maley ... Self - Rock Hudson's friend

Description: The biography of renowned actor Rock Hudson is examined in this relevant investigation of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity, from his public "ladies' man" character to his private life as a gay man.

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Video : 2.46 GB, 3368 Kbps, 24 fps, 1280x720 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 478 MB, 640 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = E-AC3, CBR


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



Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 71 min
Language: English/German
Country: United States/Germany
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff/Gisela Grischow
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0823715

Cast

Volker Schlondorff - Self
Billy Wilder - Self

Description: In 1988, Oscar-winning German filmmaker Volker Schlondorff ("The Tin Drum") sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder at his office in Beverly Hills, California and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. The conversation went on for two weeks. The results were aired on German TV in 1992 and debuted on U.S. television when it was shown on Turner Classic Movies in 2006. We are presented with a generous smattering of film clips, rare photographs and artwork, but mostly Wilder just sits in his office and talks with the off screen Schlondorff, moving easily between English and German. Clips shown include: "Double Indemnity," "The Lost Weekend," "A Foreign Affair," "Sunset Blvd.," "Ace in the Hole." "Stalag 17," "Sabrina," "Witness for the Prosecution," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment." Wilder discusses all these films, and the actors in them as well. Mostly, Wilder offers his philosophy of movie making from one of its undisputed masters. As one might expect from Wilder, he peppers his conversations with hilarious anecdotes, keen insights into the craft of movie making and frank advice about the art of survival in Hollywood.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 925 MB, 1816 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704x478 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 98 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English picture based subtitle (PGS) closed captions for German parts embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, poster and screenshots included