The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movies collection - It ain't hay (1943) and Hit the ice (1943)

Rating 6.5/10 + 6.7/10
Runtime: 162 min (80/82)
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton/Charles Lamont
IMDb Link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036047/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036004/

Cast

Bud Abbott … Grover Mockridge (It ain't hay) / Bud Abbott … Flash Fulton (Hit the ice)
Lou Costello … Wilbur Hoolihan (It ain't hay) / Lou Costello … Weejie McCoy (Hit the ice)
Grace McDonald … Kitty McGloin (It ain't hay)
Cecil Kellaway … King O'Hara (It ain't hay)
Eugene Pallette … Gregory Warner (It ain't hay)
Patsy O'Connor … Peggy/Princess O'Hara (It ain't hay)
Ginny Simms … Marcia Manning (Hit the ice)
Patric Knowles … Dr. Bill Elliot (Hit the ice)
Elyse Knox … Peggy Osborne (Hit the ice)
Joe Sawyer … Buster (Hit the ice)
Marc Lawrence … Phil (Hit the ice)

It ain't hay (1943) - King O'Hara uses his horse-drawn, handsome Hansom Cab to drive the guys and dolls of Broadway around and about Central Park, and all is well and good until O'Hara's ailing horse comes up more than a little bit ill and, in fact, ups and dies after King's friend, taxicab driver Wilbur Hoolihan, inadvertently but effectively by administering candy to the ailing animal. Some of the guys and dolls are more than somewhat upset, especially those citizens, who carry rods and get a lot of pointed questions from police officers, and who aren't among those most admired as upright citizens. So, Wilbur sets out to acquire a new horse to pull King's Hansom Cab through Central Park. Wilbur rescues a lost horse and gives it to King. But the new horse, unknown to all, is a famous race-hose named Tea Biscuit, and it is soon noticed that the horse has a lot more spirit and giddy-up than the horse he replaced. And it is not long before Tea Biscuit is entered in a famous horse-race in Saratoga - and complications arise.

Hit the ice (1943) - Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott and Peggy Osborn, they also meet old friend Johnny Long and his band and singer Marcia Manning. Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

Trailers, stills galleries and production notes included as extra material for both movies.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.49 GB, 2657 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 111/65 MB (main/commentary), 192/112 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR

Video : 1.43 GB, 2486 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 113/66 MB (main/commentary), 192/112 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (It ain't hay - English closed captions embedded in a movie and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian and Dutch, Hit the ice - English closed captions embedded in a movie and separate English, Portuguese-Brazilian and Dutch, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information

It ain't hay contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Scott Allen Nollen and Hit the ice contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Commentary by film historians Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo. 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)

Mandy (1952) - little known British drama directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Phyllis Calvert, Terence Morgan, Mandy Miller and Jack Hawkins

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045654/

Cast

Phyllis Calvert … Christine
Terence Morgan … Harry
Mandy Miller … Mandy
Jack Hawkins … Searle
Godfrey Tearle … Mr. Garland
Marjorie Fielding … Mrs. Garland
Nancy Price … Jane Ellis
Edward Chapman … Ackland

Description:Born deaf, and in time becoming dumb, this is the story of Mandy, a child whose parents have mixed feelings as how to maintain her future, that is until mother and daughter meet the ever-enthusiastic Searle. Enrolling in his school for the deaf, with methods of lip-reading and with the use of objects to learn to use speech, this is a highly sensitive and optimistic story of how a family has to learn to cope with disability, the stigma of isolation and the courage to step into the unknown.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.97 GB, 3020 Kbps, 24 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 128 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles English (including 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, Italian, Turkish, Greek), posters and screenshots included

Room for one more (1952) - classic drama directed by Norman Taurog, starring Cary Grant, Betsy Drake. Lurene Tuttle, Iris Mann and Clifford Tatum Jr.

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: English/French
Country: USA
Directed by: Norman Taurog
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045102/

Cast

Cary Grant … George "Poppy" Rose
Betsy Drake … Anna Perrott Rose
Lurene Tuttle … Miss Kenyon
Randy Stuart … Gladys Foreman
John Ridgely … Harry Foreman
Irving Bacon … Mayor Michael J. Kane
Mary Treen … Grace Roberts
Iris Mann … Jane Miller
Clifford Tatum Jr. … Jimmy John Wilson
George Winslow … Teenie Rose
Gay Gordon … Trot Rose
Malcolm Cassell … Tim Rose

Description: The Rose household is renowned for taking in stray animals. Although it is mother Anna Rose who is the one to take in the strays, she has passed on this compassionate attitude to their three children Tim, Trot, and Teenie; their father George, who is more practical on the surface, is equally compassionate underneath. Although they cannot afford luxuries for their current three children on George's modest salary as a city engineer, after touring a local orphanage with other neighborhood mothers, Anna suggests to George (on the urging of the facility's head, Miss Kenyon) that they take in one of the orphanage's older children for a trial period. Miss Kenyon would like them to take 13-year-old Jane Miller, who comes from a broken home and attempted suicide when her mother rejected her after remarrying. Eventually, Anna and George decide to take in a second older child, equally angry and troubled Jimmy John Wilson, a 12-year-old orphaned since age two, whose belligerent behavior has made the authorities brand him as trouble; he also needs to wear leg-braces, which makes him even angrier and more violent because of what he can't do physically like most boys his age. They will also learn that he has so far refused to learn to read. Anna and George, who deal with Jane and Jimmy John's issues differently, will find if their love, support and compassion are enough to melt the two adolescents' seemingly icy hearts, although the love could wane if their own three children are negatively affected. The situation might not be helped by the attitudes of their friends and neighbors if they look down on the notion of the two being trouble.

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Video : 1.82 GB, 2743 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 130 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 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, Spanish, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish, Czech), posters and screenshots included

Limelight (1952) - classic drama directed by Charles Chaplin, starring himself, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton and Norman Lloyd

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 138 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044837/

Cast

Charles Chaplin … Calvero
Claire Bloom … Thereza 'Terry' Ambrose
Nigel Bruce … Postant
Buster Keaton … Calvero's Partner
Sydney Chaplin … Neville
Norman Lloyd … Bodalink
Andre Eglevsky … Dancer - Harlequin
Melissa Hayden … Dancer - Columbine
Marjorie Bennett … Mrs. Sybil Alsop

Description: It's 1914 London. Smelling gas, a man named Calvero breaks down the door of an apartment in the building where he lives, and finds a young woman trying to commit suicide. She is Thereza 'Terry' Ambrose, a ballerina. On advice from the attending physician, Calvero decides not to report it to the police, as attempted suicide is a criminal offense. As Terry is evicted from her apartment, Calvero allows her to stay with him for as long as she needs. As he nurses her back to physical health, he also deals with her emotional health and uncovering the reason for her attempted suicide. Although he is constantly telling her that life is worth living, he can understand the pressures and guilt she has faced in her life, as he himself is an ex-performer, a once legendary stage comedian whose professional career was ruined by excessive alcohol consumption. He is trying to revive his professional career. They become each other's emotional support as they try to make it in the world of the performing arts, for Calvero the second time around. Through it all, Calvero tries to show Terry the difference between devotion and romantic love, especially as an old admirer of hers named Neville re-enters her life.

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Video : 3.1 GB, 3218 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 189 MB, 192 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian, German, Turkish, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Czech), posters and screenshots included

The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movies collection - Pardon my sarong (1942) and Who done it? (1942)

Rating 6.8/10 + 7.3/10
Runtime: 161 min (84/77)
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
IMDb Link:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035173/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035555/

Cast

Bud Abbott … Algy Shaw (Pardon my sarong) / Chick Larkin (Who done it?)
Lou Costello ... Wellington Pflug (Pardon my sarong) / Mervin Q. Milgrim (Who done it?)
Virginia Bruce … Joan Marshall (Pardon my sarong)
Robert Paige … Tommy Layton (Pardon my sarong)
Lionel Atwill … Varnoff (Pardon my sarong)
Leif Erickson … Whaba (Pardon my sarong)
Nan Wynn … Luana (Pardon my sarong)
Patric Knowles … Jimmy Turner (Who done it?)
William Gargan … Police Lt. Lou Moran (Who done it?)
Louise Allbritton … Jane Little (Who done it?)
Thomas Gomez … Col. J.R. Andrews (Who done it?)
William Bendix … Detective Brannigan (Who done it?)

Description: Pardon my sarong (1942) - A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Who done it? (1942) - Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder after the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Trailers, stills galleries and production notes included as extra material for both movies.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.23 GB, 3804 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 115 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Video : 1.61 GB, 2987 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 106/62 MB (main/commentary), 192/112 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (Pardon my sarong - English closed captions embedded in a movie and separate English (including hearing impaired) and Portuguese-Brazilian, Dutch and Romanian, Who done it? - English closed captions embedded in a movie and separate English, Portuguese-Brazilian, Dutch and Romanian, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information

Who done it? contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Frank Coniff. 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)

Hangman's knot (1952) - little known western directed by Roy Huggins, starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin, Claude Jarman Jr. and Frank Faylen

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 81 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Roy Huggins
IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044683/

Cast

Randolph Scott … Major Matt Stewart
Donna Reed … Molly Hull
Lee Marvin … Rolph Bainter
Claude Jarman Jr. … Jamie Groves
Frank Faylen … Cass Browne
Glenn Langan … Capt. Petersen
Richard Denning … Lee Kemper
Jeanette Nolan … Mrs. Margaret Harris

Description: In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attacks the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor says that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group, but they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.46 GB, 2560 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 112/65 MB (main/commentary), 192 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 (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Turkish, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian), posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, first is original English and the other is commentary by film historians Robert Nott & Johnny D. Boggs. 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 and isolated score on Track 2)

Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) - little known western directed by John Sturges, starring William Holden, Eleanor Parker, William Demarest, John Forsythe, Richard Anderson and Carl Benton Reid

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 98 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Sturges
IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045737/

Cast

William Holden … Capt. Roper
Eleanor Parker … Carla Forester
John Forsythe … Capt. John Marsh
William Demarest … Campbell
William Campbell … Cabot Young
Polly Bergen … Alice Owens
Richard Anderson … Lt. Beecher
Carl Benton Reid … Col. Owens

Description: During the American Civil War, the Union cavalry at Fort Bravo have to put up with two threats: the Confederate prisoners incarcerated at the Fort and rampaging Mescalero Indians. Captain Roper takes a no nonsense approach to dealing with both groups, to the dismay of his subordinate, Lt. Beecher. He develops a new interest however when the lovely Carla Forester arrives at the post. Unbeknown to anyone, she is there to arrange the escape of Capt. John Marsh, the senior Confederate officer. When she succeeds, it is left to Roper to track them down.

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Video : 2.26 GB, 3285 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x576 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 135 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English (including 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian, German, Turkish, Greek, Danish, Hungarian), posters and screenshots included