Saturday, May 19, 2018

Border incident (1949) - another little known film noir from director Anthony Mann, starring Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy and Howard Da Silva

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Anthony Mann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041198/

Cast

Ricardo Montalban ... Pablo Rodriguez
George Murphy ... Jack Bearnes
Howard Da Silva ... Owen Parkson
James Mitchell ... Juan Garcia
Arnold Moss ... Zopilote
Alfonso Bedoya ... Cuchillo
Teresa Celli ... Maria
Charles McGraw ... Jeff Amboy

Description: When several illegal Mexican workers are murdered at the border of Mexico and United States by a gang of Coyotes, the Mexican and American federal agents Pablo Rodriguez and Jack Bearnes are assigned to work infiltrated in the group of Mexican farm workers that are waiting for a chance to work in southern California. Pablo poses of bracero while Jack poses of a dealer of permits to work in the United State to discover the leaders that exploit the laborers. They stumble upon the rancher Owen Parkson and they find he is the ringleader. But soon they are in danger and do not have means to communicate with their contacts. What will happen to Jack and Pablo?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1syMmHAofjwd1V6Pl92BZMEeeqKeRfMpR

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=96423278367536842906


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.80 GB, 2648 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 718x480 ~> 718x538 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 131/53 MB (main/commentary), 192/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Polish, Serbian) 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 Dana Polan. 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)

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Crack-up (1946) - little known film noir from director Irving Reis, starring Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor and Herbert Marshall

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Reis
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038429/

Cast

Pat O'Brien ... George Steele
Claire Trevor ... Terry Cordell
Herbert Marshall ... Traybin
Ray Collins ... Dr. Lowell
Wallace Ford ... Lt. Cochrane
Dean Harens ... Reynolds
Damian O'Flynn ... Stevenson
Erskine Sanford ... Barton

Description: George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturnal train trip. He suddenly sees another train ahead, speeding toward his... Is George indeed cracking up, or is there a plot to discredit him? The mystery grows murky with shadowy menace...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10S2s-L0bhpAl5_uaTKFpQ4BPuWq55BBg

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=05988140713128181554


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.30 GB, 2000 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704x478 ~> 704x528 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 128 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles Spanish closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player, posters and screenshots included