Friday, May 17, 2024

All the King's Men (1949) - classic Oscar winning film noir drama directed by Robert Rossen, starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek and Mercedes McCambridge

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 110 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Rossen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041113/

Cast

Broderick Crawford... Willie Stark
John Ireland ... Jack Burden
Joanne Dru ... Anne Stanton
John Derek ... Tom Stark
Mercedes McCambridge ... Sadie Burke
Shepperd Strudwick ... Adam Stanton
Ralph Dumke ... Tiny Duffy

Description: Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. What's special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He's supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark delivering a speech and having his son pass out handbills, while the local politicians do their best to intimidate him. Willie Stark is honest and brave. He's also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school, becoming an idealistic attorney who fights for what is good. Someone in the governor's employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark; but Jack Burden, Stark's biggest supporter, overestimates the man's idealism. To get where he wants to go, Willie Stark is willing to crack a few eggs - which include his tough-talking assistant, Sadie Burke; Jack's poised and elegant fiancée, Anne Stanton; and even Jack Burden himself...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/826b3ea732c9d8e1


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.67 GB, 2179 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 638x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 93 MB, 119 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English 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, Turkish, Dutch, Czech) posters and screenshots included

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

The fugitive kind (1960) - lesser known drama directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052832/

Cast

Marlon Brando ... Valentine Xavier
Joanne Woodward ... Carol Cutrere
Anna Magnani ... Lady Torrance
Maureen Stapleton ... Vee Talbot
Victor Jory ... Jabe Torrance
R.G. Armstrong ... Sheriff Jordan Talbot
Virgilia Chew ... Nurse Porter

Description: Having been in and out of trouble with the law from his fast living, Valentine Xavier, a drifter and musician who played primarily in New Orleans, decides to turn over a new leaf when he reaches Two Rivers County in the American deep south. With the help of the sheriff's wife Vee Talbot, Xavier is able to get a job as a clerk at Torrance Mercantile in Vee knowing that Jabe Torrance will soon be coming home from the Memphis hospital, and will likely never be able to get out of bed in the apartment above the store on his own, leaving his wife, Lady Torrance, to run the store by herself. Xavier, in his trademark snakeskin jacket, exudes a masculine sexuality, which increases business at the store by all the admiring young women of the county now frequenting it. Who lets him know in no uncertain terms that she is interested is party girl Carol Cutrere, whose fast ways has had her banned from Two Rivers, period, plus a number of other businesses outside of the county line. The one female in the county openly stating that she is not interested is Lady, despite not loving or ever having loved hard and violent Jabe, she putting any past infidelity in search of happiness behind her. The interactions between Xavier and Lady lead to them once again striving for happiness in their lives, which is interrupted by many of the men, including Sheriff Jordan Talbot, looking out for Jabe's interests, they who, as a collective, have an equally violent outlook as the answer to life's problems...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/4619e50b1859eb65


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.50 GB, 2934 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 960x576 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 113 MB, 132 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English 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, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Czech) posters and screenshots included