Only Old Movies - ultimate source of old, good classics from 1930`s to 1980`s: 2009-03-15

Saturday, March 21, 2009

How green was my valley (1941) - Maureen O'Hara, John Ford

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 118 min
Language: English/Welsh
Country: USA
Directed by: John Ford
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033729/

Cast

Walter Pidgeon ... Mr. Gruffydd
Maureen O'Hara ... Angharad
Anna Lee ... Bronwyn
Donald Crisp ... Mr. Morgan
Roddy McDowall ... Huw
John Loder ... Ianto
Sara Allgood ... Mrs. Morgan

Description: This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in a family of 6 brothers and 1 sister and the film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty in a Wales caught in an irreversible shift from a pastoral to an industrialized society. The story, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, is accented by an impressive background of Welsh choral music and quaint patterns of speech.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

The hidden fortress aka Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958) - Akira Kurosawa

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 138 min
Language: Japanese (English subtitles hardcoded)
Country: Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051808/

Cast

Toshirô Mifune ... General Rokurota Makabe
Misa Uehara ... Princess Yuki
Minoru Chiaki ... Tahei
Kamatari Fujiwara ... Matakishi
Takashi Shimura ... The Old General, Izumi Nagakura
Toshiko Higuchi ... Farmer's Daughter bought from slave trader

Description: Two luckless peasants, Tahei and Matashichi (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) escape the aftermath of a battle. While trying to make their way home, they meet and begin to travel with General Rokurota Makabe (Toshiro Mifune). The general is trying to transport the princess of a defeated royal family and what remains of their wealth to safe territory in secret. The peasants mostly impede his mission sometimes trying to run off with the gold. They are later joined by a farmer’s daughter (Toshiko Higuchi), whom they acquire at an inn from a slave-trader, or procurer. Together, the five make an arduous and desperate trek through enemy territory, transporting a treasure of gold that the princess and the general hope to use to rebuild the princess's military to one day retake her land and rebuild her realm.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Le notti bianche aka The white nights (1957)

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: Italian
Country: Italy/France
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050782/

Cast

Maria Schell ... Natalia
Marcello Mastroianni ... Mario
Jean Marais ... Tenant
Marcella Rovena ... Landlady
Giorgio Albertazzi ... Narrator (voice)

Description: A love triangle, the past invades the present. Mario, a shy man new in Venice, chats up a crying woman on a bridge. She's Natalia, waiting for a lover gone for a year who promised to return. For three nights, Mario accompanies Natalia, assists her, distracts her, dances with her, and falls in love. He's the present, real; can he pull Natalia into his arms, away from the past and from love for a man who will probably never return? On the third night, just before dawn, it snows...

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Ballad of a soldier aka Ballada o soldate (1959)

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: Russian
Country: Soviet Union
Directed by: Grigori Chukhrai
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052600/

Cast

Vladimir Ivashov ... Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov
Zhanna Prokhorenko ... Shura
Antonina Maksimova ... The mother
Nikolai Kryuchkov ... The general
Yevgeni Urbansky ... Vasya (the invalid)
Elza Lezhdey ... The invalid's wife

Description: During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura who is on her way to her aunt. In those few days traveling together they fall in love.

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Download link (torrent file):

http://www.filefactory.com/file/zovhxedhg33/Ballada_o_soldate_(1959).torrent

Video and audio information:

Video : 637 MB, 1947 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 512*384 (4:3), DX50 = DivXNetworks Divx v5
Audio : 62 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x2000 = AC-3 ACM Codec

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Polish) included

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The blue dahlia (1946) - Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake in classic film noir

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: USA
Country: English
Directed by: George Marshall
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038369/

Cast

Alan Ladd ... Johnny Morrison (Lt.Cmdr., ret.)
Veronica Lake ... Joyce Harwood
William Bendix ... Buzz Wanchek
Howard Da Silva ... Eddie Harwood
Doris Dowling ... Helen Morrison
Tom Powers ... Capt. Hendrickson

Description: Ex-bomber pilot Johnny Morrison and his buddies George and Buzz (who, with a metal plate in his head, can't stand "monkey music"), return from the war to their home town, Hollywood. In a rude homecoming, Johnny finds his wife Helen behaving like a tramp with oily nightclub owner Eddie Harwood. His marriage over, Johnny wanders off into the night, leaving his gun behind...and someone uses it to murder Helen. Dodging cops and seeking the real killer, Johnny is aided by blonde Joyce, who just happens to be the estranged wife of Eddie Harwood...

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Download links

http://www.fileserve.com/file/46KZMqp/Bl_dah__lia.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/mMxfckA/Bl_dah__lia.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/r6Tkb7D/Bl_dah__lia.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/gEhbxqS/Bl_dah__lia.part4.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/dwEdAyQ/Bl_dah__lia.part5.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/P5W3Znz/Bl_dah__lia.part6.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/ptUcswz/Bl_dah__lia.part7.rar

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.19 GB, 1799 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 640*496 (1.29:1), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 130 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

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Monday, March 16, 2009

A movie each day :)

I got a crazy time in my life nowadays so I just thought I might do something crazy on the blog so...

I will be posting new movie each day from tomorrow to Sunday :)

Nice, huh?

What can you expect?

1. Film noir I mentioned before - not quite known, but quite enjoyable :)

2. Some of Italian-French cooperation cinematography :)

3. Some of Japanese cinematography :P

4. Some of Russian (!!) cinematography

5. John Ford drama

6. War romance :)

And something more - if there is a person that wants to help me provide movies to be posted, got their own rips, and can co-operate with me with all the details, please feel free to leave some comments

Saturday, March 21, 2009

How green was my valley (1941) - Maureen O'Hara, John Ford

Friday, March 20, 2009

The hidden fortress aka Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958) - Akira Kurosawa

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Le notti bianche aka The white nights (1957)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Ballad of a soldier aka Ballada o soldate (1959)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The blue dahlia (1946) - Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake in classic film noir

Monday, March 16, 2009

A movie each day :)

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