Showing posts with label Robert Wise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Wise. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2022

The body snatcher (1945) - little known horror directed by Robert Wise, starring Henry Daniell, Russell Wade, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 78 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037549/

Cast

Henry Daniell ... Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane
Russell Wade ... Donald Fettes
Boris Karloff ... Cabman John Gray
Bela Lugosi ... Joseph
Edith Atwater ... Meg Cameron
Rita Corday ... Mrs. Marsh
Sharyn Moffett ... Georgina Marsh

Description: In 1831, in Edinburgh, the prominent doctor and professor Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane buys corpses for his studies and classes of anatomy from the notorious cabman John Gray, who is also a body snatcher. When his talented student Donald Fettes tells that he will quit medical school since his family cannot afford to support him, MacFarlane hires him as his assistant to permit Fettes to proceed his studies. Fettes meets a little girl that cannot walk anymore due to a coach accident, and he tries to convince Dr. MacFarlane to operate her but the doctor is reluctant. Soon Fettes discovers that Dr. MacFarlane has a secret from his past and Gray blackmails him. When Fettes learns how Gray obtains the corpses for Dr. MacFarlane, he has an inner conflict and does not want to continue as Dr. MacFarlane's protégée. But isn't it too late...?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/tj33kxy9


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.17 GB, 2149 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 107/107 MB (main/commentary), 192/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AC3, CBR/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, French, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by director Robert Wise and film historian Steve Haberman. 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 28, 2020

Run silent run deep (1958) - another war themed movie from director Robert Wise, starring Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster and Jack Warden

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052151/

Cast

Clark Gable ... Cmdr. 'Rich' Richardson
Burt Lancaster ... Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Jack Warden ... Yeoman 1st Class Mueller
Brad Dexter ... Ens. Gerald Cartwright
Don Rickles ... Quartermaster 1st Class Ruby
Nick Cravat ... Russo
Joe Maross ... Chief Kohler
Mary LaRoche ... Laura Richardson
Eddie Foy III ... Larto
Rudy Bond ... Sonarman 1st Class Cullen

Description: The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/1qm4e6dh


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.05 GB, 3151 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 956x576 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 150 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 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, Greek, German, Turkish, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Finnish) posters and screenshots included

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

The captive city (1952) - film noir from director Robert Wise, starring John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy and Victor Sutherland

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044476/

Cast

John Forsythe ... Jim Austin
Joan Camden ... Marge Austin
Harold J. Kennedy ... Don Carey
Marjorie Crossland ... Mrs. Sirak
Victor Sutherland ... Murray Sirak
Ray Teal ... Chief Gillette
Martin Milner ... Phil Harding
Geraldine Hall ... Mrs. Nelson

Description: Jim Austin, a small town newspaper editor, discovers that his seemingly peaceful community is actually a haven for illegal bookmaking with most of the authorities and “respectable” citizens turning a blind eye to the matter. Indeed, as he investigates the murder of his initial informant, not only does the local police start harassing him and his staff, but the ruthless mafia boss running the mammoth operation has the paper’s young photographer beaten after he snaps an incriminating photo. Soon, after the murder of a second informant, Jim and his wife Marge are running for their lives, heading for the state capitol where they can present their findings to Senator Estes Kefauver’s Committee on the Investigation of Organized Crime.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oK1QwpHmNgcc18SFx8Ugu4Fu0vS8wHg5

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=54800452872565687324


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.47 GB, 3877 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 770x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 66 MB, 101 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, VBR


Subtitles Separate English and Croatian, posters and screenshots included

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Born to kill (1947) - lesser known film noir from director Robert Wise, starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039211/

Cast

Claire Trevor ... Helen
Lawrence Tierney ... Sam
Walter Slezak ... Arnett
Phillip Terry ... Fred
Audrey Long ... Georgia
Elisha Cook Jr. ... Marty
Isabel Jewell ... Laury Palmer
Esther Howard ... Mrs. Kraft

Description: In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but decides not to become involved. The two meet next day on the train to San Francisco unaware of this link between them. They are attracted to each other, and the relationship survives his marriage to her half-sister for money and status. It even survives the woman discovering that he was the murderer, though she may not realise how easily someone who has killed this way before can do so again.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_eDZya21vT3R0em8


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.38 GB, 2097 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x537 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 107
Audio : 126 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Turkish, Serbian) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Somebody up there likes me (1956) - boxing drama based on Rocky Graziano's biopic, starring Paul Newman

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049778/

Cast

Paul Newman ... Rocky
Pier Angeli ... Norma
Everett Sloane ... Irving Cohen
Eileen Heckart ... Ma Barbella
Sal Mineo ... Romolo
Harold J. Stone ... Nick Barbella
Joseph Buloff ... Benny
Sammy White ... Whitey Bimstein

Description: Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However, he is immediately drafted to the army. But they can't keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_VGk1UUstNkdoaVk

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=00061011712566412565


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.42 GB, 1736 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 853x480 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 156/57 MB (main/commentary), 192/70 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/1 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Serbian, Turkish, Italian, Dutch, Czech) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Paul Newman, Robert Loggia, director Robert Wise, Martin Scorsese and Richard Schickel. 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, commentary on Track 2)

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Executive suite (1954) - drama directed by Robert Wise, starring William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Shelley Winters, June Allyson, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger and Nina Foch

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046963/

Cast

William Holden ... McDonald Walling
June Allyson ... Mary Blemond Walling
Barbara Stanwyck ... Julia O. Tredway
Fredric March ... Loren Phineas Shaw
Walter Pidgeon ... Frederick Y. Alderson
Shelley Winters ... Eva Bardeman
Paul Douglas ... Josiah Walter Dudley
Louis Calhern ... George Nyle Caswell
Dean Jagger ... Jesse Q. Grimm
Nina Foch ... Erica Martin

Description: Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named a clear successor, so the Board members must choose a replacement. The most likely is Loren Shaw, a skilled businessman, but some of the others don't like his calculating ways. But to stop him, they'll have to find someone else they can back. Will it be the engineer Don Walling? That will take convincing, they don't trust his youth and idealism. And he isn't even sure he wants the job, he might be happier creating rather than politicking.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/UbaZk6JehHL


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.35 GB, 3212 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1006x576 (1.75:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 143/62/57 MB (unfiltered mono/main/commentary), 192/83/76 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/VBR


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


Triple audio track information


This movie contains three audio tracks, first is unfiltered mono track, second original English, and the last is commentary by Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to unfiltered mono track on Track 1, original English on Track 2 and commentary on Track 3)

Sunday, July 22, 2012

I want to live! (1958) - classic drama from director Robert Wise, starring Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel and Wesley Lau

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051758/

Cast

Susan Hayward ... Barbara Graham
Simon Oakland ... Edward S. 'Ed' Montgomery
Virginia Vincent ... Peg
Theodore Bikel ... Carl G.G. Palmberg
Wesley Lau ... Henry L. Graham
Philip Coolidge ... Emmett Perkins

Description: The story of life and execution of Barbara Graham (Hayward) a prostitute and convicted perjurer. Being the product of a broken home, shw works luring men into fixed card games. At one point, she attempts to go straight but marries the "wrong man," and has a child. He is a drug addict and she ends their relationship. When her life falls apart, she returns to her former profession and becomes involved with men who have murdered a woman. The police arrest them and her companions accuse her of the murder to reduce their own chances of going to the gas chamber. She claims her innocence, but ...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGu2AIw7uNccA-yGjyBbEalOrbLYwNID


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.11 GB, 3645 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024*554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 113 MB, 129 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 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, Greek, Polish) posters and screenshots included

Friday, March 16, 2012

Odds against tomorrow (1959) - crime drama from director Robert Wise, starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley and Gloria Grahame

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053133/

Cast

Harry Belafonte ... Johnny Ingram
Robert Ryan ... Earle Slater
Shelley Winters ... Lorry
Ed Begley ... Dave Burke
Gloria Grahame ... Helen
Will Kuluva ... Bacco
Kim Hamilton ... Ruth Ingram

Description: Dave Burke is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater, a white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a black gambler. Both are reluctant; but Burke arranges for Ingram's creditors to put pressure on him, while Slater feels humiliated by his failure to provide for his girlfriend; they eventually accept. But Slater loathes and despises blacks, and the tensions in the gang rapidly mount.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tnH_-HCJwV8xTgw031z-x2713QwrWstU


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.29 GB, 4916 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768*576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 144
Audio : 132 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 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, Greek, Dutch, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Friday, August 29, 2008

The Set-Up (1949) - classic film noir directed by Robert Wise, starring Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter and Wallace Ford

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 72 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041859/

Cast

Robert Ryan ... Stoker
Audrey Totter ... Julie
George Tobias ... Tiny
Alan Baxter ... Little Boy
Wallace Ford ... Gus
Percy Helton ... Red
Hal Baylor ... Tiger Nelson

Description: Over-the-hill boxer Bill 'Stoker' Thompson insists he can still win, though his sexy wife Julie pleads with him to quit. But his manager Tiny is so confident he will lose, he takes money for a "dive" from tough gambler Little Boy...without bothering to tell Stoker. Tension builds as Stoker hopes to "take" Tiger Nelson, unaware of what will happen to him if he does.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/v6mthip4


Audio and video information: (to be added later)

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Audio :


Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

Friday, February 1, 2008

The day the earth stood still (1951) - classic sci-fi movie directed by Robert Wise, starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe and Sam Jaffe

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English/French/Hindi/Russian
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/

Cast

Michael Rennie ... Klaatu
Patricia Neal ... Helen Benson
Hugh Marlowe ... Tom Stevens
Sam Jaffe ... Prof. Jacob Barnhardt
Billy Gray ... Bobby Benson
Frances Bavier ... Mrs. Barley
Lock Martin ... Gort

Description: Travelling at mind-boggling speed, a gleaming unidentified flying object zooming in from boundless deep space penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, landing smoothly in Cold War Washington, D.C. Encircled by large yet feeble military forces, the peaceful intergalactic ambassador, Klaatu, emerges from the mysterious vessel accompanied by the silently dangerous robot of incomprehensible power, Gort, only to witness firsthand the earthlings' hospitality. The sophisticated humanoid declares that he comes in peace; however, he needs to assemble the world's greatest minds to hear his merciful warning and a definitive ultimatum. Is Klaatu the messenger of humanity's doom?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/ZE8Z5NvAXXS


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.87 GB, 2912 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 165
Audio : 295/74 MB (main/commentary/commentary), 448/112/112 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/VBR


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, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Hebrew, Arabic) posters and screenshots included


Triple audio track information


This movie contains three audio tracks, first is original English and the others are commentary by directors Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer and an analysis of the film's iconic score by Bernard Herrmann and its cultural impact, with historians John Morgan, Steven Smith, William Stromberg and Nick Redman. 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 commentaries on Track 2 and 3)