Saturday, June 8, 2024

The accused (1949) - little known film noir directed by William Dieterle, starring Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe and Douglas Dick

Rating 6.8/10
Runtime: 101 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Dieterle
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040071/

Cast

Loretta Young ... Dr. Wilma Tuttle
Robert Cummings ... Warren Ford
Wendell Corey ... Lt. Ted Dorgan
Sam Jaffe ... Dr. Romley
Douglas Dick ... Bill Perry
Suzanne Dalbert ... Susan Duval
Sara Allgood ... Mrs. Conner
Mickey Knox ... Jack Hunter

Description: Wilma Tuttle, psychology professor, lets aggressively brash student Bill Perry drive her home. Big mistake. After an attempted rape, Perry is dead; panicked, Wilma hides her traces and flees. As time passes, she watches the investigations of Homicide Lt. Dorgan with painfully concealed apprehension. Complicating matters: her budding romance with Warren Ford, Perry's guardian. How long can she stand the strain?

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Video : 2.68 GB, 3801 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 89/58 MB (main/commentary), 124/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and 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 track on Track 2)

Sunday, June 2, 2024

The scarface mob (1959) - little known crime/film noir movie directed by Phil Karlson, starring Robert Stack, Neville Brand, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols and Pat Crowley

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056449/

Cast

Robert Stack ... Eliot Ness
Neville Brand ... Al Capone
Keenan Wynn ... Joe Fuselli
Barbara Nichols ... Brandy LaFrance
Pat Crowley ... Betty Anderson
Bill Williams ... Martin Flaherty
Joe Mantell ... George Ritchie
Bruce Gordon ... Frank Nitti

Description: Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone (Neville Brand). First televised as a two-part episode of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse in April 1959, The Untouchables was later combined into one seamless version for movie theaters titled "The Scarface Mob."

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Video : 1.36 GB, 1980 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 129 MB, 182 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Six bridges to cross (1955) - little known film noir directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen and Sal Mineo

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048628/

Cast

Tony Curtis ... Jerry Florea
George Nader ... Edward Gallagher
Julie Adams ... Ellen Gallagher
Jay C. Flippen ... Vincent Concannon
Sal Mineo ... Jerry Florea - as a Boy
Jan Merlin ... Andy Norris
Richard Castle ... Skids Radzevich

Description: Youth gang leader Jerry Florea is shot fleeing from a crime scene by rookie cop Ed Gallagher. Result: "he'll never have children of his own." Ed and Jerry develop a mutually beneficial friendship: Jerry gets the benefit of the doubt, Ed gets information that brings him rapid promotion. As years and jail terms go by, Ed's friendship with this likable rogue becomes strained, as hope for his reform dwindles. Can Jerry redeem himself in the end?

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.51 GB, 3717 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 159
Audio : 73/54 MB (main/commentary), 105/78 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by film historian Samm Deighan. 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 19, 2024

The Twilight Zone (1959) - Season 1, episodes 13-24



Episode 13 - The four of us are dying

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Description: A man who can change his face to look like other people uses his ability to improve his life, regardless of his effect on others.

Episode 14 - Third from the sun

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Description: Two families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.


Episode 15 - I shot an arrow into the air

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Description: Order breaks down between three surviving crewmen whose rocket ship crashes on an unknown world with limited water and supplies.


Episode 16 - The hitch-hiker

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Description: A young woman driving cross-country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.


Episode 17 - The fever

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Description: Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that he belives is calling his name.


Episode 18 - The last flight

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Description: A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in 1959 France.


Episode 19 - The purple testament

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Description: A U.S. Army lieutenant serving in the Philippines during WWII develops a harrowing ability to see in the faces of the men of his platoon, the men who will be the next ones to die.


Episode 20 - Elegy

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Description: Three astronauts touch down on an asteroid that look like Earth 200 years before they left. They discover a world of people that appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they theorize as to why everyone is motionless, until a man springs to life and explains.


Episode 21 - Mirror image

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Description: While waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.


Episode 22 - The monsters are due on Maple Street

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Description: On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.


Episode 23 - A world of difference

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Description: Businessman Arthur Curtis finds his phone dead. He is then surprised to hear a voice yell, "Cut!" and see that his office is just a set on a sound stage. Everyone tells him that he is Jerry Raigan, a drunken movie star on the decline, and "Arthur Curtis" is a character he is playing in the movie "The Private World of Arthur Curtis". Uninterested in the newfound fame, he fights to get back to his home and family.


Episode 24 - Long live Walter Jameson

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Description: A father forbids a history professor from marrying his daughter when he discovers that the captivating lecturer is actually an immortal who has lived for thousands of years.

Video and audio information:

Video : 914 MB, 4929 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1434x1080 (4:3), V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC x265
Audio : 19 MB, 103 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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Friday, May 17, 2024

All the King's Men (1949) - classic Oscar winning film noir drama directed by Robert Rossen, starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek and Mercedes McCambridge

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 110 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Rossen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041113/

Cast

Broderick Crawford... Willie Stark
John Ireland ... Jack Burden
Joanne Dru ... Anne Stanton
John Derek ... Tom Stark
Mercedes McCambridge ... Sadie Burke
Shepperd Strudwick ... Adam Stanton
Ralph Dumke ... Tiny Duffy

Description: Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. What's special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He's supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark delivering a speech and having his son pass out handbills, while the local politicians do their best to intimidate him. Willie Stark is honest and brave. He's also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school, becoming an idealistic attorney who fights for what is good. Someone in the governor's employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark; but Jack Burden, Stark's biggest supporter, overestimates the man's idealism. To get where he wants to go, Willie Stark is willing to crack a few eggs - which include his tough-talking assistant, Sadie Burke; Jack's poised and elegant fiancée, Anne Stanton; and even Jack Burden himself...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.67 GB, 2179 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 638x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 93 MB, 119 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

The fugitive kind (1960) - lesser known drama directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052832/

Cast

Marlon Brando ... Valentine Xavier
Joanne Woodward ... Carol Cutrere
Anna Magnani ... Lady Torrance
Maureen Stapleton ... Vee Talbot
Victor Jory ... Jabe Torrance
R.G. Armstrong ... Sheriff Jordan Talbot
Virgilia Chew ... Nurse Porter

Description: Having been in and out of trouble with the law from his fast living, Valentine Xavier, a drifter and musician who played primarily in New Orleans, decides to turn over a new leaf when he reaches Two Rivers County in the American deep south. With the help of the sheriff's wife Vee Talbot, Xavier is able to get a job as a clerk at Torrance Mercantile in Vee knowing that Jabe Torrance will soon be coming home from the Memphis hospital, and will likely never be able to get out of bed in the apartment above the store on his own, leaving his wife, Lady Torrance, to run the store by herself. Xavier, in his trademark snakeskin jacket, exudes a masculine sexuality, which increases business at the store by all the admiring young women of the county now frequenting it. Who lets him know in no uncertain terms that she is interested is party girl Carol Cutrere, whose fast ways has had her banned from Two Rivers, period, plus a number of other businesses outside of the county line. The one female in the county openly stating that she is not interested is Lady, despite not loving or ever having loved hard and violent Jabe, she putting any past infidelity in search of happiness behind her. The interactions between Xavier and Lady lead to them once again striving for happiness in their lives, which is interrupted by many of the men, including Sheriff Jordan Talbot, looking out for Jabe's interests, they who, as a collective, have an equally violent outlook as the answer to life's problems...

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Video : 2.50 GB, 2934 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 960x576 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 113 MB, 132 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Sunday, May 5, 2024

Nothing but a man (1964) - little known social drama directed by Michael Roemer, starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Roemer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058414/

Cast

Ivan Dixon ... Duff Anderson
Abbey Lincoln ... Josie
Julius Harris ... Will Anderson
Gloria Foster ... Lee
Martin Priest ... Mill worker
Leonard Parker ... Frankie
Yaphet Kotto ... Jocko

Description: Born in Birmingham, Duff Anderson, the father of a male toddler, who lives with a nanny, re-locates to a small town to work on the railroad. He meets with and is attracted to Josie much to the chagrin of her preacher father. The marriage does take place nevertheless, both re-locate to live in their own house and he gets a job in a mill. He decides not to bring his son to live with them. Challenges arise when the mill foreman finds out that Duff is attempting to unionize the workers, forcing Duff to quit, and look for work elsewhere. Unable to reconcile himself to working on a daily wage of $2.50 picking cotton nor even as a waiter, he gets a job at a garage. He is enraged at a customer for belittling him and Josie, and is let go. Unemployed, unable to support his wife and son, he gets abusive and leaves - perhaps never to return.

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Video : 2.68 GB, 4190 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 75 MB, 114 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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Sunday, April 28, 2024

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3, eps 11-20


Episode 11 - Consider her ways

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Description: A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.

Episode 12 - Crimson witness
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Description: When an embezzling engineer is demoted and his brother takes over his former position, he makes plans to kill him.

Episode 13 - Where the Woodbine Twineth
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Description: After Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old-maid daughter Nell. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell finds it difficult to govern Eva, who constantly talks to imaginary friends whom Eva believes are real, including Mingo and her father Mr. Peppercorn. When the Captain returns, he presents Eva with a gift--a black doll named Numa. Nell hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, but suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood. Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will trade places with Numa and go to the idyllic place "Where the Woodbine Twineth."

Episode 14 - The final performance
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Description: Cliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for the car, Cliff gets a room at the hotel, run by Rudolph Bitzner - a former vaudevillian, with a specialty act with his only employee, Rosie. She pleads with Cliff to help her escape from Rudolph, who plans to marry her as soon as she becomes 18. There's a lot about Rudolph, and the relationship between the two, which Cliff isn't aware of, but he should, because it'll soon be one of their last performances.

Episode 15 - Thanatos Palace Hotel
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Description: After Robert Manner's attempt to kill himself is ruined by a fireman's net, he is invited to join a suicide club headquartered at the Thanatos Palace Hotel. The members of the club have agreed to kill each. The catch is that the victim never knows who the killer will be and never knows when the murder will occur. Robert joins the club, but falls in love with one of its members Ariane Shaw. He gets a new lease on life and decides to undermine the club in order to prevent his own death.

Episode 16 - One of the family
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Description: A man and his wife hire his childhood nanny to care for their baby son. After they hear of the arsenic murder of another baby, the mother becomes suspicious, but the father thinks she's overreacting.

Episode 17 - An unlocked window
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Description: A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.

Episode 18 - The trap
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Description: A toy manufacturer's new assistant has an affair with the obnoxious, overbearing businessman's beautiful younger wife. After enduring a rather humiliating interview, the bright college grad, condescendingly nicknamed "Princeton", proves valuable to the manufacturer through his hard work. But the assistant is impatient for, among other things, advancement.

Episode 19 - Wally the Beard
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Description: When a man purchases a wig and a beard, he winds up getting a whole new personality, which also leads to a new girlfriend along with a lot of serious problems that have the very real potential to drive him to madness unless he does something soon.

Episode 20 - Death scene
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Description: Auto mechanic Leo Manfred fixes a limousine owned by Gavin Revere, a famed, retired and wheelchair-bound Hollywood director. Gavin's beautiful daughter Nicky catches Leo's eye, so he offers to drive her home where he meets Gavin. Gavin, distrusting, warns Leo to stay away from Nicky. Leo is persistent and eventually Nicky falls in love with him. But when Gavin learns about their marriage plans, he fears Leo only wants her for their money. To convince the director of his true intentions, Leo takes out a life insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars with the payoff going to Nicky. Gavin agrees, and the marriage plans continue. Shortly before the wedding, however, Leo makes the fatal mistake of insulting one of Gavin's movies entitled "Death Scene," and the old man changes his mind about the wedding. Not willing to give up Nicky over a quarrel, Leo wheels Gavin to an empty swimming pool to stage an "accidental" death, but his plan goes awry.

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