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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Mildred Pierce (1945) - Joan Crawford in Michael Curtiz film-noir

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913/

Cast

Joan Crawford ... Mildred Pierce Beragon
Jack Carson ... Wally Fay
Zachary Scott ... Monte Beragon
Eve Arden ... Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth ... Veda Pierce Forrester
Bruce Bennett ... Albert ('Bert') Pierce

Description: Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. They soon divorce, leaving Mildred to raise the girls on her own. Elder daughter Veda goads her mother about their lack of money and in response Mildred proposes opening a small restaurant. Realtor Wally Fay advises her while making numerous rebuffed passes and introduces her to Monte Baragon whose property becomes the first of a chain of restaurants. Mildred has an affair with Monte. Meanwhile, money-hungry Veda pretends to be pregnant by wealthy Ted Forrester in order to bilk his family of $10,000. Mildred tears up the check, is slapped by Veda, and orders her daughter to leave. After time away, Mildred returns to find Veda singing in a cheap club. Veda will return only if Mildred promises luxury, so Mildred agrees to marry Monte in exchange for a third of her businesses. It soon becomes clear that something is going on between Veda and Monte. Mildred learns of this only after Monte has sold out his third of the her business leaving her bankrupt. She goes to Monte's beach house to kill him... Shots ring out, but what really happened?

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Friday, April 3, 2009

This gun for hire (1942) - Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 81 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Frank Tuttle
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035432/

Cast

Veronica Lake ... Ellen Graham
Robert Preston ... Det. Michael Crane
Laird Cregar ... Willard Gates
Alan Ladd ... Philip Raven
Tully Marshall ... Alvin Brewster
Marc Lawrence ... Tommy

Description: Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy.

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Monday, March 30, 2009

More of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd?

Anybody?

Do you want more of them? Or maybe I should post another flick? :)

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Body and soul (1947) - John Garfield, Lilli Palmer

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 106 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Rossen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039204/

Cast

John Garfield ... Charlie Davis
Lilli Palmer ... Peg Born
Hazel Brooks ... Alice
Anne Revere ... Anna Davis
William Conrad ... Quinn
Joseph Pevney ... Shorty Polaski
Lloyd Gough ... Roberts

Description: Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

From here to eternity (1953) - Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
Montgomery Clift ... Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Deborah Kerr ... Karen Holmes
Donna Reed ... Alma Burke (Lorene)
Frank Sinatra ... Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Philip Ober ... Capt. Dana 'Dynamite' Holmes
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Cpl. Leva
Harry Bellaver ... Pvt. Mazzioli
Ernest Borgnine ... Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

Description: It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box anymore, so Captain Holmes gets his subordinates to make his life a living hell. Meanwhile Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, who has a history of seeking external relief from a troubled marriage. Prew's friend Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson, and Prew begins falling in love with social club employee Lorene. Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the distance.

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Download links:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/2y3gicfsdr6r/n/From_here_to_eternity_1953_torrent

Also included additional extras (with English, French, Dutch, German, Italian subtitles)

* Featurette "The Making Of From Here To Eternity"
* Excerpt from "Fred Zinnemann: As I See It" (80 MB)

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.32 GB, 1670 Kbps, 25 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD = XviD MPEG-4 1.2.1
Audio : 60 MB, 74 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = Lame MP3

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish (in IDX/SUB format) included

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is additional audio commentary by Tim Zinnemann (son of the director) and actor Alvin Sargent. You can use VLC 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 warning 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.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

How green was my valley (1941) - Maureen O'Hara, John Ford

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 118 min
Language: English/Welsh
Country: USA
Directed by: John Ford
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033729/

Cast

Walter Pidgeon ... Mr. Gruffydd
Maureen O'Hara ... Angharad
Anna Lee ... Bronwyn
Donald Crisp ... Mr. Morgan
Roddy McDowall ... Huw
John Loder ... Ianto
Sara Allgood ... Mrs. Morgan

Description: This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in a family of 6 brothers and 1 sister and the film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty in a Wales caught in an irreversible shift from a pastoral to an industrialized society. The story, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, is accented by an impressive background of Welsh choral music and quaint patterns of speech.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

The hidden fortress aka Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958) - Akira Kurosawa

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 138 min
Language: Japanese (English subtitles hardcoded)
Country: Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051808/

Cast

Toshirô Mifune ... General Rokurota Makabe
Misa Uehara ... Princess Yuki
Minoru Chiaki ... Tahei
Kamatari Fujiwara ... Matakishi
Takashi Shimura ... The Old General, Izumi Nagakura
Toshiko Higuchi ... Farmer's Daughter bought from slave trader

Description: Two luckless peasants, Tahei and Matashichi (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) escape the aftermath of a battle. While trying to make their way home, they meet and begin to travel with General Rokurota Makabe (Toshiro Mifune). The general is trying to transport the princess of a defeated royal family and what remains of their wealth to safe territory in secret. The peasants mostly impede his mission sometimes trying to run off with the gold. They are later joined by a farmer’s daughter (Toshiko Higuchi), whom they acquire at an inn from a slave-trader, or procurer. Together, the five make an arduous and desperate trek through enemy territory, transporting a treasure of gold that the princess and the general hope to use to rebuild the princess's military to one day retake her land and rebuild her realm.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Le notti bianche aka The white nights (1957)

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: Italian
Country: Italy/France
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050782/

Cast

Maria Schell ... Natalia
Marcello Mastroianni ... Mario
Jean Marais ... Tenant
Marcella Rovena ... Landlady
Giorgio Albertazzi ... Narrator (voice)

Description: A love triangle, the past invades the present. Mario, a shy man new in Venice, chats up a crying woman on a bridge. She's Natalia, waiting for a lover gone for a year who promised to return. For three nights, Mario accompanies Natalia, assists her, distracts her, dances with her, and falls in love. He's the present, real; can he pull Natalia into his arms, away from the past and from love for a man who will probably never return? On the third night, just before dawn, it snows...

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Ballad of a soldier aka Ballada o soldate (1959)

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: Russian
Country: Soviet Union
Directed by: Grigori Chukhrai
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052600/

Cast

Vladimir Ivashov ... Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov
Zhanna Prokhorenko ... Shura
Antonina Maksimova ... The mother
Nikolai Kryuchkov ... The general
Yevgeni Urbansky ... Vasya (the invalid)
Elza Lezhdey ... The invalid's wife

Description: During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura who is on her way to her aunt. In those few days traveling together they fall in love.

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Download link (torrent file):

http://www.filefactory.com/file/zovhxedhg33/Ballada_o_soldate_(1959).torrent

Video and audio information:

Video : 637 MB, 1947 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 512*384 (4:3), DX50 = DivXNetworks Divx v5
Audio : 62 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x2000 = AC-3 ACM Codec

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Polish) included

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The blue dahlia (1946) - Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake in classic film noir

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: USA
Country: English
Directed by: George Marshall
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038369/

Cast

Alan Ladd ... Johnny Morrison (Lt.Cmdr., ret.)
Veronica Lake ... Joyce Harwood
William Bendix ... Buzz Wanchek
Howard Da Silva ... Eddie Harwood
Doris Dowling ... Helen Morrison
Tom Powers ... Capt. Hendrickson

Description: Ex-bomber pilot Johnny Morrison and his buddies George and Buzz (who, with a metal plate in his head, can't stand "monkey music"), return from the war to their home town, Hollywood. In a rude homecoming, Johnny finds his wife Helen behaving like a tramp with oily nightclub owner Eddie Harwood. His marriage over, Johnny wanders off into the night, leaving his gun behind...and someone uses it to murder Helen. Dodging cops and seeking the real killer, Johnny is aided by blonde Joyce, who just happens to be the estranged wife of Eddie Harwood...

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Download links

http://www.fileserve.com/file/46KZMqp/Bl_dah__lia.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/mMxfckA/Bl_dah__lia.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/r6Tkb7D/Bl_dah__lia.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/gEhbxqS/Bl_dah__lia.part4.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/dwEdAyQ/Bl_dah__lia.part5.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/P5W3Znz/Bl_dah__lia.part6.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/ptUcswz/Bl_dah__lia.part7.rar

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.19 GB, 1799 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 640*496 (1.29:1), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 130 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

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Monday, March 16, 2009

A movie each day :)

I got a crazy time in my life nowadays so I just thought I might do something crazy on the blog so...

I will be posting new movie each day from tomorrow to Sunday :)

Nice, huh?

What can you expect?

1. Film noir I mentioned before - not quite known, but quite enjoyable :)

2. Some of Italian-French cooperation cinematography :)

3. Some of Japanese cinematography :P

4. Some of Russian (!!) cinematography

5. John Ford drama

6. War romance :)

And something more - if there is a person that wants to help me provide movies to be posted, got their own rips, and can co-operate with me with all the details, please feel free to leave some comments