Thieves' highway (1949) - classic film noir directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Valentina Cortese, Millard Mitchell and Joseph Pevney

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Jules Dassin
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/

Cast

Richard Conte ... Nick Garcos
Valentina Cortese ... Rica
Lee J. Cobb ... Mike Figlia
Barbara Lawrence ... Polly Faber
Jack Oakie ... Slob
Millard Mitchell ... Ed Kinney
Joseph Pevney ... Pete

Description: Returning home to Fresno after the war, working class Nick Garcos is full of vim and vigor with a handful of cash to show for it and an armload of gifts for his family and his girl, Polly Faber, the two who plan to get married. Nick's enthusiasm is dampened when he sees that his father, Yanko Garcos, who transported produce - he buying directly from farmers to transport and sell to wholesalers at produce markets - has suffered at the hands of San Francisco wholesaler, Mike Figlia. Yanko is not totally certain that Figlia bilked him out of the payment for what was Yanko's final shipment - Yanko drunk at the time, he awakening with no money - but is certain that it was Figlia who got him drunk which Figlia arguably did to bilk him out of said payment and which led to the traffic accident resulting in the loss of his legs. Vowing revenge for what Figlia did to his father, Nick senses an opportunity upon meeting another produce transporter, Ed Kinney, with who he plans to partner in an upcoming shipment of much sought out apples. In the process, Nick discovers that among the mostly honest and up front people in the business, there are a few solely out to make a buck by whatever means, including cheating and stealing, such as Figlia. While not in the business, who may fall into that unscrupulous category is Rica, a party girl who Nick meets in the vicinity of the produce market where Figlia has his operation, she who sometimes seems to be on Nick's side in wanting to help him, but who he sometimes suspects may in reality be in Figlia's back pocket in her needy nature.

Screens:

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.43 GB, 2180 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 146
Audio : 129 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, 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-Brazilian, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Polish) posters and screenshots included

The desperate hours (1955) - classic crime/film noir movie directed by William Wyler, starring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Arthur Kennedy, Dewey Martin, Gig Young and Robert Middleton

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 112 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0047985

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Glenn Griffin
Fredric March ... Daniel Hilliard
Arthur Kennedy ... Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
Martha Scott ... Ellie Hilliard
Dewey Martin ... Hal Griffin
Gig Young ... Chuck Wright
Mary Murphy ... Cindy Hilliard
Robert Middleton ... Sam Kobish
Richard Eyer ... Ralphy Hilliard

Description: After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire.

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Also a set of extras included:

* Trouble in Suburbia – brand new appreciation of the film by José Arroyo, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick (38:50 min)
* The Lonely Man – a visual essay by Eloise Ross, co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque (14:53 min)
* Scaled down and ratcheted up – brand new audio interview with Catherine Wyler, daughter of director William Wyler (11:46 min)
* Trailer (2:18 min)
* Lobby cards gallery (0:16 min)


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.70 GB, 3437 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 77/69/70 MB (main/commentary/commentary), 96/86/86 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC, CBR/CBR/CBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired), Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German (including hearing impaired), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 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, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew), posters and screenshots included


Triple audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the others are commentary by film historians Daniel Kremer and Kevin Lyons. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentaries on Track 2 and 3)