Only Old Movies - ultimate source of old, good classics from 1930`s to 1980`s: 2007

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Sunset Boulevard (1950) - masterpiece film noir from director William Wyler starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim

Rating 8.7/10
Runtime: 110 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

Cast

William Holden ... Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson ... Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim ... Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson ... Betty Schaefer
Fred Clark ... Sheldrake
Lloyd Gough ... Morino
Jack Webb ... Artie Green

Description: Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenplay writer, escapes the finance men who are trying to reclaim his car by driving into the garage of an old mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Assumed to be someone else, he is led by Max the butler to the mansion's owner, silent film star Norma Desmond. Wishing to make a comeback, she hires him to rewrite her "Salome" script, then falls in love with him. Joe moves into the mansion as a kept man. Secretly, Joe is collaborating with a pretty young screenplay editor, Betty Schaefer, on another idea. Though she is engaged to his best friend, Artie Green, an assistant director, Betty falls in love with Joe. When Betty finds out about Norma, she asks him to leave Norma for her, but Joe can't unsettle her life, too. He decides, instead, to leave Hollywood. As he is leaving, a crazed Norma tries to stop him.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/i5y3xkg7

Also included a really nice set of extra material:

* "The making of Sunset Boulevard" - including interviews with Nancy Olson, Ed Sikov, film critic Andrew Sarris, Paramount producer A.C. Lyles and Glenn Close
* "Franz Waxman and the music of Sunset Boulevard"
* "The Noir side of Sunset Boulevard" by Joseph Wambaugh
* "Edith Head: The Paramount Years" - documentary of the famed costume designer
* Hollywood location map
* "Paramount in the 50s" - featurette about studio's successes in 1950s
* "Mad about the boy: A portrait of William Holden"
* "Recording Sunset Boulevard"
* "Stories of Sunset Boulevard"
* "Sunset Boulevard: The beginning" - featurette detailing pre-production of movie
* "Sunset Boulevard becomes a classic"
* "The city of Sunset Boulevard"
* "Behind the Gates: The Lot"
* "Two sides of Ms Swanson"
* Original theatrical trailer
* Shooting script (PDF file)

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.19 GB, 4145 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 786x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 177/70 MB (main/commentary) , 224/89 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Portuguese, Chinese simplified, Danish, German, Estonian, Hungarian, Italian, Vietnamese closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, Turkish, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Serbian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Arabic), posters and screenshots included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder". 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, commentary on Track 2)

Thursday, November 8, 2007

La Belle et la Bête aka Beauty and the Beast (1947) - classic poetic movie from director Jean Cocteau

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: French
Country: France/Luxembourg
Directed by: Jean Cocteau
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038348/

Cast

Jean Marais ... La Bête (The Beast)/The Prince/Avenant
Josette Day ... Belle
Mila Parély ... Félicie
Nane Germon ... Adélaïde
Michel Auclair ... Ludovic
Raoul Marco ... The usurer
Marcel André ... Belle's father

Description: A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters, Felicie and Adelaide, are real shrews, selfish, pretentious, evil. They exploit the third daughter, Belle, as a servant. One day, the merchant gets lost in the forest and enters a strange castle. He picks up a rose for Belle and the castle's owner appear. He is a monster, half-human, half-beast, and possesses magic powers. He sentences the merchant to death, unless he give up one of his daughters. Belle sacrifices herself for her father and goes to the castle, discovering that the Beast is not so wild and inhuman as it seems.

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - classic Walt Disney Studio animation

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 124 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: David Hand
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0029583/

Cast

Adriana Caselotti ... Snow White (voice)
Eddie Collins ... Dopey (voice)
Pinto Colvig ... Sleepy/Grumpy (voice)
Billy Gilbert ... Sneezy (voice)
Otis Harlan ... Happy (voice)
Lucille La Verne ... Queen/Witch (voice)
Moroni Olsen ... Magic Mirror (voice) (uncredited)
Harry Stockwell ... Prince (voice) (uncredited)

Description: Snow White, a beautiful princess who is forced to obey her stepmother who is the evil queen every whim, sees her prince charming while drawing water from the well. Meanwhile her evil stepmother discovers that not she but Snow White is "the fairest of them all". So she orders a hunter to kill Snow White and bring back her heart in a case......The hunter, seeing how sweet Snow White is and recognizing the evil in the queen's heart let's her escape into the forest. Will Snow White escape her stepmother forever? Will she ever survive in the woods and will she ever be able to see her Prince Charming again?

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Friday, November 2, 2007

To kill a mockingbird (1962) - classic court drama directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall and Brock Peters

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 129 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0056592/

Cast

Gregory Peck ... Atticus Finch
John Megna ... Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris
Frank Overton ... Sheriff Heck Tate
Rosemary Murphy ... Maudie Atkinson
Brock Peters ... Tom Robinson
Estelle Evans ... Calpurnia
Paul Fix ... Judge Taylor
Collin Wilcox Paxton ... Mayella Violet Ewell
James Anderson ... Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell
Robert Duvall ... Arthur 'Boo' Radley

Description: Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, and with America struggling to find its feet, the widowed father and fiercely principled lawyer, Atticus Finch, is left all alone to care for his two children: Jem and Scout. When the young black worker, Tom Robinson, is wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting Mayella Ewell, a white woman living in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, Atticus decides to take his case and defend him in court, turning his fellow townspeople against him. Suddenly, Atticus and his young children find themselves targeted by the local community, which seems unable to forgive and forget. But, this is a matter of justice and not the colour of one's skin. Will impartiality and reason prevail?

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/lokfqv8n

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.30 GB, 3653 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 407/74 MB (main/commentary), 448/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/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, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian) posters and screenshots included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by director Robert Mulligan and producer Alan Pakula. 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)

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Subtitles - part 1

Some of you are asking me for subtitles to movies I have been posting here.

Now I will post some sites, that could help you when looking for subtitles in your language

First of all, biggest multi-language subtitle database

http://www.opensubtitles.org

Supported languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Portuguese, Assyrian and probably some others

Some specification:

* - no registration needed to download subtitles
* - advanced search filters (by genre, rating, year)
* - search for more than one language
* - search for many subtitles simultaneously (multi-search)
* - get search results by e-mail or rss
* - site is "open" (you can get every page as parseable XML)
* - support for coding web-applications (autodownload, upload)
* - can act as a subtitle server for other subtitle sites

There was also released special software called SubDownloader - open source program in Python that allows to download and upload subtitles.

And now some more multi-language sites:

http://www.divxsubtitles.net/index.php

http://divxstation.com/subtitles.asp

http://subtitles.images.o2.cz/

http://www.podnapisi.net/

http://www.subtitles.cz/en/

http://subscene.com/Default.aspx

http://www.allsubs.org

Friday, October 26, 2007

The adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - classic swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Curtiz/William Keighley
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/

Cast

Errol Flynn ... Robin Hood
Olivia de Havilland ... Maid Marian
Basil Rathbone ... Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Claude Rains ... Prince John
Patric Knowles ... Will Scarlett
Eugene Pallette ... Friar Tuck
Alan Hale ... Little John
Melville Cooper ... High Sheriff of Nottingham
Ian Hunter ... King Richard the Lion-Heart

Description: Sir Robin of Locksley, defender of downtrodden Saxons, runs afoul of Norman authority and is forced to turn outlaw. With his band of Merry Men, he robs from the rich, gives to the poor and still has time to woo the lovely Maid Marian, and foil the cruel Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and keep the nefarious Prince John off the throne.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/x9nt0cjz

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.20 GB, 3092 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 786x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 128
Audio : 140/70 MB (main/commentary), 192/96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, 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, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian) 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 and writer Rudy Behlmer. 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, October 22, 2007

The treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - classic western directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt and Bruce Bennett

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 126 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Huston
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Fred C. Dobbs
Walter Huston ... Howard
Tim Holt ... Curtin
Bruce Bennett ... Cody
Barton MacLane ... Pat McCormick
Alfonso Bedoya ... Gold Hat
Arturo Soto Rangel ... Presidente
Manuel Dondé ... El Jefe

Description: Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/fbx6imh9

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.41 GB, 3781 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 144
Audio : 144/74 MB (main/commentary), 160/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AC3/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, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian) 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 scholar Eric Lax. 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)

Friday, October 19, 2007

3:10 to Yuma (1957) - classic western directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin and Felicia Farr

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Delmer Daves
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0050086/

Cast

Glenn Ford ... Ben Wade
Van Heflin ... Dan Evans
Felicia Farr ... Emmy
Leora Dana ... Mrs. Alice Evans
Henry Jones ... Alex Potter, town drunk
Richard Jaeckel ... Charlie Prince

Description: After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to take Wade in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma. Once the two are holed up in the hotel to wait it becomes apparent the secret is out, and a battle of wills starts.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/xBdyTEHk7LB

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.82 GB, 4366 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 854*462 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 132
Audio : 296 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic) posters and screenshots included

Witness for the prosecution (1957) - classic mystery court drama directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power and John Williams

Rating 8.4/10
Runtime: 116 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/

Cast

Tyrone Power ... Leonard Vole
Marlene Dietrich ... Christine
Charles Laughton ... Sir Wilfrid Robarts
Elsa Lanchester ... Miss Plimsoll
John Williams ... Brogan-Moore
Henry Daniell ... Mayhew
Ian Wolfe ... Carter
Torin Thatcher ... Mr. Myers

Description: Ailing barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder case of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending Leonard Vole, a man being tried for the murder of a wealthy woman. With Robarts choosing to represent him, the two find themselves up against Leonard's cold-hearted wife, Christine - who, in a surprising turn of events, chooses to appear in court against her husband.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/sed6wy1h

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.12 GB, 2608 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 956x576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 373 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

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

Thursday, October 18, 2007

The great dictator (1940) - classic satire directed by Charles Chaplin, starring himself, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie and Reginald Gardiner

Rating 8.4/10
Runtime: 125 min
Language: English/Esperanto
Country: USA
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0056923/

Cast

Charles Chaplin ... Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber
Paulette Goddard ... Hannah
Jack Oakie ... Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
Reginald Gardiner ... Commander Schultz
Henry Daniell ... Garbitsch
Billy Gilbert ... Field Marshal Herring
Grace Hayle ... Madame Napaloni

Description: During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/uinfep3x

Audio and video information: (to be added later)

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Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

Escape from Alcatraz (1979) - classic prison escape drama directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau and Fred Ward

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 112 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079116/

Cast

Clint Eastwood ... Frank Morris
Patrick McGoohan ... Warden
Roberts Blossom ... Doc
Jack Thibeau ... Clarence Anglin
Fred Ward ... John Anglin
Paul Benjamin ... English
Larry Hankin ... Charley Butts
Bruce M. Fischer ... Wolf

Description: The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) masterminded this elaborately detailed, and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In twenty-nine years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates who were never heard of again.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/9ttoqjau

Audio and video information: (to be added later)

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Audio :

Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

Ace in the hole (1951) - classic film noir directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur and Jan Sterling

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/

Cast

Kirk Douglas ... Chuck Tatum
Jan Sterling ... Lorraine Minosa
Robert Arthur ... Herbie Cook
Porter Hall ... Jacob Q. Boot
Frank Cady ... Al Federber
Richard Benedict ... Leo Minosa
Ray Teal ... Sheriff Gus Kretzer
Lewis Martin ... McCardle

Description: Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian dwelling. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth - until things go terribly wrong.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/ariojrku

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.22 GB, 2857 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 74/64 MB (main/commentary), 93/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 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, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian) 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 Neil Sinyard. 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)