Showing posts with label Hume Cronyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hume Cronyn. Show all posts

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Brute Force (1947) - classic film noir from director Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo and Ann Blyth

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 98 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Jules Dassin
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039224/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Joe Collins
Hume Cronyn ... Capt. Munsey
Charles Bickford ... Gallagher
Yvonne De Carlo ... Gina Ferrara
Ann Blyth ... Ruth
Ella Raines ... Cora Lister
Anita Colby ... Flossie
Sam Levene ... Louie Miller #7033
Jeff Corey ... 'Freshman' Stack

Description: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/c9xzejho


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.97 GB, 4218 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790*576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 97/58 MB (main/commentary), 132/80 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Hungarian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini. 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, June 29, 2008

The postman always rings twice (1946) - John Garfield, Lana Turner in classic film noir

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Tay Garnett
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038854/

Cast

Lana Turner ... Cora Smith
John Garfield ... Frank Chambers
Cecil Kellaway ... Nick Smith
Hume Cronyn ... Arthur Keats
Leon Ames ... Kyle Sackett
Audrey Totter ... Madge Gorland
Alan Reed ... Ezra Liam Kennedy
Jeff York ... Blair

Description: A drifter hitches a ride from the local District Attorney to an 'out of the way' restaurant/gas station owned by a man and his beautiful wife. They fall in love and together they plot the murder of her husband. Based on an original story by author James M. Cain. Although the sex scenes were watered down to conform to industry standards, the movie was still considered shocking for its time.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 666 MB, 1717 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 576*416 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4,
Audio : 32 MB, 82 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

Friday, June 6, 2008

Hitchcock Collection - Shadow of a doubt (1943) - Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036342/

Cast

Teresa Wright ... Charlotte Newton / Charlie
Joseph Cotten ... Charles Oakley / Uncle Charlie
Macdonald Carey ... Det. Jack Graham
Henry Travers ... Joseph Newton
Patricia Collinge ... Emma Newton
Hume Cronyn ... Herbie Hawkins

Description: Young Charlie Newton not only shares a name with her favorite uncle, but a special bond. At times she feels the charming man is the only one who understands her need to be extordinary and that she is better than the tiny town she lives in. So, when life is too dull she calls on him to visit. However, upon the arrival of two detecitves, one of whom becomes very close to young Charlie, and a series of unusal clues concerning the mysterious 'Merry Widow Murderer', her Uncle Charlie's behavor begins to change. Young Charlie starts to suspect that the man she once idiolized is not what he seems and as her world shatters, she realizes that her life may be in danger.

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Download links

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.13 GB, 1504 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 148 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channel, 0x2000 = AC3


Subtitles (English, French, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Turkish, Swedish) + sample (10 MB)

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - Lifeboat (1944)

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English/German
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0037017/

Cast

Tallulah Bankhead ... Constance 'Connie' Porter
William Bendix ... Gus Smith
Walter Slezak ... Willy
Mary Anderson ... Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak ... John Kovac
Henry Hull ... Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse
Heather Angel ... Mrs.Higley
Hume Cronyn ... Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett
Canada Lee ... George 'Joe' Spencer

Description: In a lifeboat during World War II, survivors from the freighter torpedoed by a U-boat huddle together including columnist Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), the ship's engineer Kovac (John Hodiak), radio operator Stanley Garrett (Hume Cronyn), nurse Alice MacKenzie (Mary Anderson), millionaire Charles 'Ritt' Rittenouse (Henry Hull), seaman Gus Smith (William Bendix), steward Joe (Canada Lee), and Mrs. Higgins (Heather Angel), a hysterical Englishwoman holding her dead baby. After the baby is buried at sea, the mother drowns herself. Though the inhabitants of the lifeboat come from vastly different backgrounds, they quickly set aside the social and economic differences that divide them in a united effort to survive. A German seaman Willi (Walter Slezak) is picked up out of the sea and Constane interprets for him. Willi suggests in German the direction toward Bermuda. During a crisis, he shouts at them in English. He was the U-boat commander. Willi has a compass and is strong enough to row them to a German supply ship The others allow him to take command of the boat, their only hope of survival is to be rescued by a German supply ship, which will presumably take them straight to a concentration camp

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Download links:

http://rapidshare.com/files/332771254/Life_b.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332782022/Life_b.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332792168/Life_b.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332802444/Life_b.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332814216/Life_b.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332826363/Life_b.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333221002/Life_b.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333232005/Life_b.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333242770/Life_b.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333253300/Life_b.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333264006/Life_b.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333270402/Life_b.part12.rar



Audio and video information:

Video : 1.06 GB, 1563 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*464 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 41 MB, 60 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = Lame MP3,


Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, Czech) + sample (10 MB)

http://rapidshare.com/files/333544399/L_b_subs_sample.rar


Password: www.onlyoldmovies.info


DUAL AUDIO TRACK

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the second is commentary from movie historician. You can useVLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks or you can use VirtualDub to get rid of any of audio tracks by following these steps:

1. Download Virtualdub from that WWW address:

http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html

2. Download your version, unzip the files, start the program by running VirtualDub.exe

3. From "File" tab choose "Open video file" and find your dual audio file on your HDD (or you can simply drag and drop movie file into program window)

4. If any warining window pops up, just click on "OK"

5. From "Video" tab choose "Direct stream copy" option (very important, do not miss that step)

6. From "Audio" tab choose which audio stream you want to use, usually English is Stream 1, and commentary is on Stream 2, but to be 100 % sure use preview option that VD provides by clicking on "Play" button on the butttom of program window when video file is loaded. Of course you can get rid of original audio and save the file with commentary that way too, just by choosing other stream

7. From "File" tab choose "Save AVI file", put movie name and choose destination folder and then click on OK. Program will start its job after no more than 2 minutes your only one audio track movie should be ready.