Saturday, November 25, 2023

Hell is for heroes (1962) - little known war movie directed by Don Siegel, starring Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker and Harry Guardino

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056062/

Cast

Steve McQueen ... Pvt. John Reese
Bobby Darin ... Pvt. Dave Corby
Fess Parker ... Sgt. Bill Pike
Harry Guardino ... Sgt. Jim Larkin
James Coburn ... Cpl. Frank Henshaw
Bob Newhart ... Pvt. James Driscoll
Nick Adams ... Homer Janeczek

Description: World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Private John Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather than face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/eBRGC8d8rgK


Video and audio information:
https://workupload.com/file/eBRGC8d8rgK
Video : 2.04 GB, 3253 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 106/124 (main/commentary), 164/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing imaired), Arabian, Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), French, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese-Brazilian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Swedish, Icelandic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by filmmaker Steve Mitchell and classic cinema historian Steven Jay Rubin. 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)

Sunday, November 19, 2023

The train (1964) - classic war movie directed by John Frankenheimer and Arthur Penn, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau and Michel Simon

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 133 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Frankenheimer/Arthur Penn
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Paul Labiche
Paul Scofield ... Colonel Franz Von Waldheim
Jeanne Moreau ... Christine
Suzanne Flon ... Mademoiselle Villard
Michel Simon ... Papa Boule
Wolfgang Preiss ... Major Herren
Albert Rémy ... Didont
Charles Millot ... Pesquet

Description: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/3LgxaQLLGUH


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.27 GB, 3516 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 960x576 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 175/106/193/71/183/61 MB (main mono mix/filtered mono/commentary/commentary/commentary/isolated score), 184/111/192/74/192/64 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/1/2/2/2/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC/AC3/AAC/AC3/AAC, CBR/CBR/VBR/VBR/CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing imaired), Cantonese traditional, Mandarin traditional, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Thai closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Indonesian, Korean, Thai) posters and screenshots included


Multiple audio track information

This movie contains multiple audio tracks, one is original Dual Mono Mix (1994 MGMUA Home Video LaserDisc), and others are Filtered Mono (2014 Twilight Time Blu-ray),commentary by director John Frankenheimer, commentary by film historians Nick Redman, Julie Kirgo and Paul Seydor, commentary by filmmaker/historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films American Realism author Steven Jay Rubin and isolated score by Maurice Jarre. 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 Tracks 2,3,4,5,6)