Showing posts with label Tom Powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Powers. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

They won't believe me (1947) - little known film noir from director Irving Pichel, starring Robert Young, Susan Hayward and Jane Greer

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Pichel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039896/

Cast

Robert Young ... Larry Ballentine
Susan Hayward ... Verna Carlson
Jane Greer ... Janice Bell
Rita Johnson ... Greta Ballentine
Tom Powers ... Trenton
George Tyne ... Lieutenant Carr

Description:Larry Ballentine is a philanderer who is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Verna Carlson. On the stand, he recounts that he had been married for about five years when he decided to run off to Montreal with Janice Bell, someone he had been spending his Saturdays with for several months. His wife Greta was aware of his assignations and convinced him to go to California with her. He stayed on the straight and narrow for a good six months but then took up with co-worker, Carlson. They too planned on running off together but two deaths and a few lies to the police have landed Ballentine in his current circumstance. Having told the entire story to the jury, their verdict is all that remains...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/y7f035u8


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.56 GB, 3864 KBps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 65 MB, 96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English closed captions (hearing impaired) 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, Italian) posters and screenshots included


Sunday, February 15, 2009

Double indemnity (1944) - classic film noir directed by Billy Wilder, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 108 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0036775/

Cast

Fred MacMurray ... Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck ... Phyllis Dietrichson
Edward G. Robinson ... Barton Keyes
Porter Hall ... Mr. Jackson
Jean Heather ... Lola Dietrichson
Tom Powers ... Mr. Dietrichson
Richard Gaines ... Mr. Norton

Description: In 1938, the experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co. Walter Neff meets the seductive wife of one of his client, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband Dietrichson to receive the prize of an accident insurance policy and Walter plots a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on the trails of a train, the police accepts the evidence of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the version and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/iazeghrt


Set of extras included:

* Introduction by TCM host, Robert Osborne

* "Shadows of Suspense" - a 2006 documentary featuring film historians, directors, and authors discussing the making of movie

* Two radio adaptations, from 1945 and 1950

* Words Words Words - Noah Isenberg on Billy Wilder

* Film historians Eddie Muller and Imogen Sara Smith On Double Indemnity

* Billy, how did you do it AKA Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht? - 3-part German documentary from 1992 - German critic Hellmut Karasek and director Volker Schlöndorff interviewing Billy Wilder about his movies.

* Theatrical trailer

Video and audio information:

Video : 3.17 GB, 4206 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 140/148/96 MB (main/commentary/commentary), 181/192/124 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired), Portuguese-Brazilian, Spanish, French 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, German, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian) posters and screenshots included


Triple audio track information

This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original English, and the others are commentaries by film critic Richard Schickel and film historian Nick Redman and screenwriter Lem Dobbs. 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 and Track 3)