Saturday, December 30, 2023

Appointment with a shadow (1957) - little known crime movie /film noir directed by Richard Carlson, starring George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field and Frank DeKova

Rating 6.5/10
Runtime: 82 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Richard Carlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051370

Cast

George Nader ... Paul Baxter
Joanna Moore ... Penny Spencer
Brian Keith ... Lt. Spencer
Virginia Field ... Florence Knapp
Frank DeKova ... Dutch Hayden
Stephen Chase ... Sam Carewe

Description: George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal. The reporter knows that the crook, who has been accused of an ambush murder, is innocent, and he sets about to collar the real killer. Nader goes "cold turkey" on the booze despite tempations at every turn, and gets his man...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/ZjXFMqWKzAw


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.48 GB, 2921 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024*436 (2.35:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 86/100 MB (main/commentary), 167/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x2000 = AAC/AC3, CBR/CBR


Subtitles (English (including 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by film historian David Del Valle and filmmaker David DeCoteau. 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)