Showing posts with label Phil Karlson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phil Karlson. Show all posts

Sunday, March 22, 2026

The Brothers Rico (1957) - little known film noir/crime movie directed by Phil Karlson, starring Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren and Paul Picerni

Rating 6.8/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050213/

Cast

Richard Conte … Eddie Rico
Dianne Foster … Alice Rico
Kathryn Grant … Norah Rico
Larry Gates … Sid Kubik
James Darren … Johnny Rico
Argentina Brunetti … Mama Rico
Lamont Johnson … Peter Malaks
Paul Picerni … Gino Rico

Description: Eddie Rico, a former accountant for crime-boss Sid Kubic, has gone straight, with the blessings of Kubic who owed his life to Rico's mother when she stopped a bullet meant for him. Eddie and his wife, Alice, are looking to adopt a baby when Eddie learns that the syndicate is looking for his brother, so they can get him out of the country before the police can find and question him. Eddie finds him, but the mobsters double-cross him and kill his brother just as they had killed another brother of Eddie's. Eddie decides to go to the police but Kubic puts out the word to get him also...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/PkMY52WdAjp


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.21 GB, 3457 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 126/73 MB (main/commentary), 192/112 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English 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, Greek), posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, first is original English and the other is commentary by film historian Jason A. Ney. 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 and isolated score on Track 2)

Sunday, June 2, 2024

The scarface mob (1959) - little known crime/film noir movie directed by Phil Karlson, starring Robert Stack, Neville Brand, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols and Pat Crowley

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056449/

Cast

Robert Stack ... Eliot Ness
Neville Brand ... Al Capone
Keenan Wynn ... Joe Fuselli
Barbara Nichols ... Brandy LaFrance
Pat Crowley ... Betty Anderson
Bill Williams ... Martin Flaherty
Joe Mantell ... George Ritchie
Bruce Gordon ... Frank Nitti

Description: Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone (Neville Brand). First televised as a two-part episode of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse in April 1959, The Untouchables was later combined into one seamless version for movie theaters titled "The Scarface Mob."

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/NhLEQLWcEzJ


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.36 GB, 1980 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 129 MB, 182 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English 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, Greek) posters and screenshots included

Monday, July 19, 2021

Scandal sheet (1952) - another less known film noir, directed by Phil Karlson, starring Broderick Crawford, John Derek and Donna Reed

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 82 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045124/

Cast

Broderick Crawford ... Mark Chapman
John Derek ... Steve McCleary
Donna Reed ... Julie Allison
Rosemary DeCamp ... Charlotte Grant
Henry O'Neill ... Charlie Barnes
Harry Morgan ... Biddle
James Millican ... Police Lt. Davis
Griff Barnett ... Judge Elroy Hacker

Description:The editor of a New York exploitation newspaper meets the wife he had abandoned years ago, while using another name, at a Lonely Hearts ball sponsored by his newspaper. She threatens to expose him as a wife-deserter, wife-beater and an impostor, and, in anger, he pushes her and accidentally kills her. Later, when her body is found, he assigns his protégé reporter to the story, as a good, exploitable follow-up story to the ball. And, then, he is forced to sit back and watch while the reporter slowly tracks down the killer...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/hi4y6itu


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.64 GB, 2870 KBps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 112 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles Separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Sunday, June 6, 2021

99 River Street (1953) - little known film noir directed by Phil Karlson, starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes and Brad Dexter

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 83 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045465/

Cast

John Payne ... Ernie Driscoll
Evelyn Keyes ... Linda James
Brad Dexter ... Victor Rawlins
Frank Faylen ... Stan Hogan
Peggie Castle ... Pauline Driscoll
Jay Adler ... Christopher
Jack Lambert ... Mickey

Description: Four years ago, short tempered Ernie Driscoll was seconds away from winning the world heavyweight championship, a bout he ultimately lost, which was called due to an eye injury. He has since been banned from fighting in New York state as he could lose his eyesight permanently if the eye gets reinjured. He is now a New York cabbie who hopes at least to get something more financially stable, such as owning a gas station, while his bitter wife, Pauline Driscoll, believes she gave up a promising show business career for him, although she was only a showgirl at the time only now to work in a florist shop. Needing an outlet to let go of his anger following an incident with Pauline and another with Linda James, a casual friend and struggling actress, Ernie decides to get back into boxing professionally. Ernie's problem really start when simultaneously he finds Pauline's dead body in the back of his cab and the police are looking for him for an assault charge pertaining to the incident with Linda. Ernie has a good idea of what the man who killed Pauline looks like, and why that man would frame him for the murder. With a couple of friends helping him, Ernie, with only a single lead, goes looking for the man to find out why he killed Pauline, while at the same time tries to elude the police before they pick him up for the assault and/or find Pauline's dead body and pin the murder on him.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/DPdyrPPHKFn


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.88 GB, 3236 KBps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 64/48 MB (main/commentary), 108/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (Separate Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, French, Greek, Turkish) posters and screenshots included



Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by author, cinema historian and film noir expert Eddie Muller. 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, March 29, 2020

Kansas City Confidential (1952) - little known film noir from director Phil Karlson, starring John Payne, Coleen Gray and Preston Foster

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044789/

Cast

John Payne ... Joe Rolfe
Coleen Gray ... Helen Foster
Preston Foster ... Tim Foster
Neville Brand ... Boyd Kane
Lee Van Cleef ... Tony Romano
Jack Elam ... Pete Harris
Dona Drake ... Teresa
Mario Siletti ... Tomaso
Howard Negley ... Andrews

Description: In Kansas City, Missouri, the criminals Peter Harris, Boyd Kane and Tony Romano are individually hired by a stranger that plots the robbery of an armored car after receiving the money from a bank in the next door of a flower shop. Each one of them wears masks and does not know the identities of the others; therefore they can not recognize each other. They succeed in the heist of 1.2 million dollars and escape in a van of the Western Florists. Mentor of the robbery gives them tickets to travel abroad, promising to share the money later. Meanwhile, the decorated soldier and ex-con driver of the Western Florists van Joe Rolfe that is delivering flowers in the shop is framed. He is accused of participating of the heist, arrested and worked-over by the police, loses his job, and when the police recognizes the mistake, he is released. Unemployed, he discovers that Peter Harris went to Tijuana, and he decides to chase the criminal and request one fifth of the amount.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TANY39WM6O0zj_4hRNcWvN-NTrYatFog

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=88148701245666193253


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.67 GB, 2404 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 758x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 318 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, 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, Greek, Turkish, Finnish) posters and screenshots included

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Tight spot (1955) - lesser known film noir directed by Phil Karlson, starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048724/

Cast

Ginger Rogers ... Sherry Conley
Edward G. Robinson ... Lloyd Hallett
Brian Keith ... Vince Striker
Lucy Marlow ... Prison Girl
Lorne Greene ... Benjamin Costain
Katherine Anderson ... Mrs. Willoughby
Allen Nourse ... Marvin Rickles
Peter Leeds ... Fred Packer

Description: Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand, and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel, several attempts are made on her life, and she falls for Vince, the policemen guarding her.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/9Q6yKSx7T7A


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.56 GB, 3813 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 66/66 MB (main/commentary), 96/96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, 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 Nora Flore. 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 Track 2)