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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell in classic pre film-noir flick

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0023042/

Cast

Paul Muni ... James Allen
Glenda Farrell ... Marie
Helen Vinson ... Helen
Noel Francis ... Linda
Preston Foster ... Pete
Allen Jenkins ... Barney Sykes
Berton Churchill ... The Judge
Edward Ellis ... Bomber Wells
David Landau ... The Warden

Description: Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn't want to settle into a humdrum life and decides to set off to find his fortune. He travels the length and breadth of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction industry. When times get tough however, he finds himself living in a shelter where an acquaintance suggests they go out for a hamburger. What the friend really has in mind is to rob the diner and Allen soon finds himself working on a chain gang with a long jail sentence. Allen manages to escape however and heads to Chicago where over several years he slowly but surely works his way up the ladder to become one of the most respected construction engineers in the city. His past catches up with him and despite protestations from civic leaders and his many friends in Chicago, he finds himself again on the chain gang. Escaping for a second time, he accepts that to survive, he must lead a life of crime.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.33 GB, 2054 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD 1.2.0SMP (UTC 2006-01-08)
Audio : 127 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC-3

Subtitles (English, French, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Croatian) included

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

The big heat (1953) - classic film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby and Lee Marvin

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045555

Cast

Glenn Ford ... Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria Grahame ... Debby Marsh
Jocelyn Brando ... Katie Bannion
Alexander Scourby ... Mike Lagana
Lee Marvin ... Vince Stone
Jeanette Nolan ... Bertha Duncan

Description: Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide, and his fellow officers' suspicious silence leads him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debby. As Bannion and Debby fall further and further into the gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary to get to the truth.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.69 GB, 4304 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768*576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 144
Audio : 167/62/100 MB (main/commentary/isolated score), 261/96/156 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2/2 channel(s), 0x2000 = FLAC/AAC/FLAC, VBR/VBR/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, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Czech) posters and screenshots included

Triple audio track information

This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original English and others are commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman and isolated score. 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)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Laura (1944) - Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews in clasic film noir

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 88 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Otto Preminger
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0037008/

Cast

Gene Tierney ... Laura Hunt
Dana Andrews ... Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Clifton Webb ... Waldo Lydecker
Vincent Price ... Shelby Carpenter
Judith Anderson ... Mrs. Ann Treadwell

Description: Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.13 GB, 1946 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 704*512 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 57 MB, 96 Kbps, 32000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

Saturday, March 8, 2008

The Spiral Staircase (1945) - Dorothy McGuire

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 84 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038975/

Cast

Dorothy McGuire ... Helen Capel
George Brent ... Professor Warren
Ethel Barrymore ... Mrs. Warren
Kent Smith ... Dr. Parry
Rhonda Fleming ... Blanche
Gordon Oliver ... Steve Warren

Description: Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen's safety when a rash of murders involving 'women with afflictions' hits the neighborhood. She implores her physician, Dr. Parry, to take Helen away for her own safety. When another murder occurs inside the Warren mansion, it becomes obvious that Helen is in danger.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.24 GB, 2115 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD 1.2.1
Audio : 77 MB, 128 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0×55 = MP3

English subtitles included

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Journey into Fear (1943) - Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 68 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Norman Foster
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0034922/

Cast

Joseph Cotten ... Howard Graham
Orson Welles ... Colonel Haki
Dolores del Rio ... Josette Martel
Ruth Warrick ... Mrs. Stephanie Graham
Agnes Moorehead ... Mrs. Mathews
Jack Durant ... Gogo Martel
Everett Sloane ... S. Kopeikin
Eustace Wyatt ... Professor Haller

Description: A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to his wife, he flees the hotel the couple is staying in and boards a ship, only to find, after the ship sails, that the agents have followed him there.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 627 MB, 1288 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 720*544 (4:3), DX50 = DivXNetworks Divx v5
Audio : 62 MB, 128 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The Glass Key (1942) - Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 82 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0034798/

Cast

Brian Donlevy ... Paul Madvig
Veronica Lake ... Janet Henry
Alan Ladd ... Ed Beaumont
Bonita Granville ... Opal 'Snip' Madvig
Richard Denning ... Taylor Henry
Joseph Calleia ... Nick Varna
William Bendix ... Jeff (Varna's henchman)

Description: A classic murder mystery, based on the the Dashiell Hammet novel and said to be the inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo. When a corrupt politician is accused of murder, his assistant hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

To have and have not (1944) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in classic romance

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 100 min
Language: English/French
Country: USA
Directed by: Howard Hawks
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0037382/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Harry 'Steve' Morgan
Lauren Bacall ... Marie 'Slim' Browning
Walter Brennan ... Eddie
Dolores Moran ... Mme. Hellene de Bursac
Hoagy Carmichael ... Cricket
Sheldon Leonard ... Lt. Coyo
Walter Szurovy ... Paul de Bursac
Marcel Dalio ... Gerard (Frenchy)

Description: Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.59 GB, 2269 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 137 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, Polish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish posters and screenshots included

Monday, February 25, 2008

Great expectations (1946) from Charles Dickens story

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: David Lean
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038574

Cast

John Mills ... Pip
Tony Wager ... Young Pip
Alec Guinness ... Herbert Pocket
Valerie Hobson ... Estella
Jean Simmons ... Young Estella
Bernard Miles ... Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan ... Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie ... Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt ... Miss Havisham

Description: Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.35 GB, 1713 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 640*480 (4:3), xvid = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 103 MB, 128 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Greek) + sample ( 6 MB)

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

How the West was won (1962) - John Wayne, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Henry Fonda

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 152 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0056085/

Cast

John Wayne ... Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Gregory Peck ... Cleve Van Valen
Henry Fonda ... Jethro Stuart
James Stewart ... Linus Rawlings
Debbie Reynolds ... Lilith 'Lily' Prescott
Karl Malden ... Zebulon Prescott
Carroll Baker ... Eve Prescott Rawlings
Lee J. Cobb ... Marshal Lou Ramsey
Carolyn Jones ... Julie Rawlings
George Peppard ... Zeb Rawlings
Robert Preston ... Roger Morgan
Eli Wallach ... Charlie Gant
Richard Widmark ... Mike King
Brigid Bazlen ... Dora Hawkins
Spencer Tracy ... Narrator

Description: Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve (Carroll Baker). The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen (Gregory Peck). They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joins the Union Army and is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. One of his sons Zeb (George Peppard) also joins the army and stays after the war as a cavalry officer and is sent to Colorado to help guard the pioneering railroad against the Indians, whose land they are crossing. By this time Lilith is the elderly lady of the family, having survived long enough to see the dream of settlement realized, but not, mercifully, the aerial shots of the Los Angeles freeway traffic with which the film ends.

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Video and audio information:

Video: 977/885 MB, 1705 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704*240 (2.93:1), XviD = XviD 1.2.0SMP
Audio : 257/233 MB (dual audio track), 384 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3 for main feature and 64 Kbps 0x55 = MP3 for commentary

Monday, February 18, 2008

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - Orson Welles

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 87 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Orson Welles
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0035015/

Cast

Joseph Cotten ... Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello ... Isabel Minafer
Anne Baxter ... Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt ... George Minafer
Agnes Moorehead ... Fanny Minafer
Ray Collins ... Jack Minafer
Erskine Sanford ... Roger Bronson
Richard Bennett ... Maj. Amberson
Orson Welles ... Narrator (voice)

Description: The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1006 MB, 1595 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XVID = XVID 1.2.1
Audio : 121 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

Subtitles (English, French, Spanish (SUB/IDX), Portuguese) + sample (9MB)

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