Crime does not pay - film noir shorts from Warner Brothers Noir Box Set (1940-1947)

Here are the five Crime Doesn't Pay Series Shorts that were included with the new Warner Brothers Noir Box Set

Forbidden Passage

Cast:

Addison Richards ... Frank J. Maxwell
Wolfgang Zilzer ... Otto Kestler
Hugh Beaumont ... Clements
George Lessey ... American Consul in Lisbon

This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Does Not Pay", features the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.


A Gun in His Hand

Cast:

Tom Trout ... Police Officer Dennis Nordell
Richard Gaines ... Police Inspector Dana
Anthony Caruso ... Frankie

Dennis Nordell joins the police force with a long-range goal; use the knowledge he gains to pursue a career of undetected crime. Camouflaged by his uniform and badge, he pulls of a number of seemingly foolproof crimes, but is eventually trapped by an overlooked bit of evidence too small to be seen.


The Luckiest Guy in the World

Cast:

Barry Nelson ... Charles Verne
Eloise Hardt ... Martha Verne
George Travell ... John, the hired driver
Milton Kibbee ... Mr. Ashland, Charles' Boss
Harry Cheshire ... Mr. Mossley, Charles' Landlord


Charlie Vurn is always looking for the 'big score'. He bets on the horses and owes his bookie. At work, he 'borrows' from his accounts. After a terrible accident, he comes into a large sum of money and thinks he has it made...or does he?


Women in Hiding

Cast:

Marsha Hunt ... Jane Taylor
Jane Drummond ... Alice aka Bunny
Mary Bovard ... Mary Wilson
C. Henry Gordon ... Dr. Mansby, Clinic Administrator
Granville Bates ... Dr. Bates


It focuses on unwed mothers, specifically those who believe that they cannot confide in anyone and, therefore, go to clinics run by people more interested in profit than proper medical care. In this dramatization, women pay $500 to enter a clinic and must sign papers in which they agree to give up their babies for adoption. Childless couples then pay the clinic operators $500 to adopt the children.


You, the People

Cast:

C. Henry Gordon ... John 'Boss' Bailey
Byron Shores ... Deputy William 'Bill' Wright
Paul Everton ... Mayor James W. 'Jim' Wheelock
Matt McHugh ... Albert 'Bert' / 'Perky' Perkins


This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Doesn't Pay", features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudently win re-election for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.


Screenshots:

Audio and video information (same for each episode, running 19-22 minutes):

Video : 166-191 MB, 1226 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 576*416 (1.37:1), XviD 1.1.0 (UTC 2005-11-22)
Audio : 26-29 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Download (as torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_X01MRHVPeXNVamM

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=46698642101097329436

Little caesar (1931) - gangster movie from director Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Glenda Farrell

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 78 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021079/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Little Caesar - Alias 'Rico'
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ... Joe Massara
Glenda Farrell ... Olga Stassoff
William Collier Jr. ... Tony Passa
Sidney Blackmer ... Big Boy
Ralph Ince ... Pete Montana
Thomas E. Jackson ... Sergeant Flaherty
Stanley Fields ... Sam Vettori

Description: The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to the great mobster Pete Montana. In a robbery of a night-club, he kills the Crime Commissioner Alvin McClure and his pal Joe witnesses the murder. When Rico orders Joe to leave his mistress Olga Stassoff, she takes a serious decision.


Screens:

Download link (torrent file):



http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=66757339579390690419


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.80 GB, 3276 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 634*480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 135
Audio : 588/35 MB (main/commentary), 588/60 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = FLAC/VORBIS, VBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese 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 (including hearing impaired), Greek, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, 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 film historian Richard B. Jewell. 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)

The two Mrs. Carrols (1947) - dark thriller with Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Peter Godfrey
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039926/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Geoffrey Carroll
Barbara Stanwyck ... Sally Morton Carroll
Alexis Smith ... Cecily Latham
Nigel Bruce ... Dr. Tuttle
Isobel Elsom ... Mrs. Latham
Patrick O'Moore  ... Charles Pennington
Ann Carter ... Beatrice Carroll

Description: Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally whilst on holiday in the country. A romance develops but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffreyy returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_aGZJbUUzbmM1TFU

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=03308562960171988111


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.27 GB, 1839 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XviD 1.3.2
Audio : 91 MB, 128 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MP3, CBR


Spanish subtitles in SRT format + sample, posters and screenshots

All included

The bad and the beautiful (1952) - classic drama about Hollywood industry from director Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Dick Powell, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Leo G. Carroll and Paul Stewart

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 118 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044391/

Cast

Kirk Douglas ... Jonathan Shields
Lana Turner ... Georgia Lorrison
Walter Pidgeon ... Harry Pebbel
Dick Powell ... James Lee Bartlow
Barry Sullivan ... Fred Amiel
Gloria Grahame ... Rosemary Bartlow
Gilbert Roland ... Victor 'Gaucho' Ribera
Leo G. Carroll ... Henry Whitfield
Vanessa Brown ... Kay Amiel
Paul Stewart ... Syd Murphy

Description: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer James Lee Bartlow, a star Georgia Lorrison and a director Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone - including the writer, star and director - on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Screens:

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Video and audio information:

Video : 3.11 GB, 3780 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790*576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 102 MB, 121 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, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Whirlpool (1949) - classic film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer and Charles Bickford

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Otto Preminger
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042039/

Cast

Gene Tierney ... Ann Sutton
Richard Conte ... Dr. William 'Bill' Sutton
José Ferrer ... David Korvo
Charles Bickford ... Lt. James Colton
Barbara O'Neil ... Theresa Randolph
Eduard Franz ... Martin Avery
Constance Collier ... Tina Cosgrove

Description: Plagued by an overwhelming urge to shoplift, Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney) is helped out of a tight spot by David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Unfortunately for Ann, Korvo is a conniving hypnotist who draws her into a web of deception and murder through his mind-altering abilities and frames her for his misdeeds. While Ann's psychiatrist husband, Bill (Richard Conte), believes that his wife didn't commit the crimes, Korvo's devious scheme makes proving her innocence quite difficult.

Screens: (to be added later)

Download link (torrent file):

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Audio and video information: (to be added later)

Video :
Audio :


Subtitles, posters and screenshots (to be added later)

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.

Screens:

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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

Detective story (1951) - classic film noir directed by William Wyler, starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell and George Macready

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043465/

Cast

Kirk Douglas ... Det. James McLeod
Eleanor Parker... Mary McLeod
William Bendix ... Det. Lou Brody
Cathy O'Donnell ... Susan Carmichael
George Macready ... Karl Schneider
Horace McMahon ... Lt. Monaghan
Gladys George ... Miss Hatch

Description: Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities...

Screens:

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.96 GB, 2718 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 646x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 95/54 MB (main/commentary), 129/72 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English and Portuguese 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, German, Greek, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by by noir expert and Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode. 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)

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And good news is, as some of people asked for it, I will post a new movie soon as a Torrent file. My upload speed is slow and I can not seed it all the time, so cooperation of other seeders will be needed. I will check how it looks and what is the response and then re-consider future of Torrent files...

Recent filehosting issues and future of this site...

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Brute Force (1947) - classic film noir from director Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo and Ann Blyth

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 98 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Jules Dassin
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039224/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Joe Collins
Hume Cronyn ... Capt. Munsey
Charles Bickford ... Gallagher
Yvonne De Carlo ... Gina Ferrara
Ann Blyth ... Ruth
Ella Raines ... Cora Lister
Anita Colby ... Flossie
Sam Levene ... Louie Miller #7033
Jeff Corey ... 'Freshman' Stack

Description: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/c9xzejho


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.97 GB, 4218 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790*576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 97/58 MB (main/commentary), 132/80 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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, Italian, Turkish, Hungarian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini. 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)

Beyond a reasonable doubt (1956) - Fritz Lang film noir with Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 80 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0049006/

Cast

Dana Andrews ... Tom Garrett
Joan Fontaine ... Susan Spencer
Sidney Blackmer ... Austin Spencer
Arthur Franz ... Bob Hale
Philip Bourneuf ... Roy Thompson
Ed Binns ... Lt. Kennedy
Shepperd Strudwick ... Jonathan Wilson
Robin Raymond ... Terry Larue

Description: The owner of an important newspaper Austin Spencer opposes to the capital punishment and particularly to the prosecutor Roy Thompson, who has just succeeded in a trial based on circumstantial evidences. When a dancer is strangled and the police have no suspect, Austin convinces his future son-in-law, the prominent writer Tom Garrett, to plant circumstantial evidences to self-incriminate, while he would hold pictures, receipts and other evidences of his innocence until the very last moment. Later Austin would begin a campaign in his newspaper disclosing the possibility of sending an innocent to the electric chair. They decide to hide the truth from Austin's daughter Susan since she could not support the situation under stress. When the jury withdraws from the court in the end of the trial to give the sentence, Austin takes the evidences that prove the innocence of Tom from his safe, but has a car accident and dies. Tom is sentenced to death penalty and tries to convince Susan of his innocence as his last hope.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/51969993/file.html

http://www.putlocker.com/file/3EC4A1C230D0B49E


Video and audio information:

Video : 924 MB, 1605 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720*368 (~2:1), XviD = XviD 1.1.0
Audio : 111 MB, 192 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3


Subtitles (English, Spanish) included

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud AKA Elevator to the gallows (1958) - classic French crime movie directed by Louis Malle, starring Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau and Georges Poujouly

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Louis Malle
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0051378

Cast

Jeanne Moreau ... Florence Carala
Maurice Ronet ... Julien Tavernier
Georges Poujouly ... Louis
Yori Bertin ... Véronique
Jean Wall ... Simon Carala
Elga Andersen ... Frieda Bencker
Sylviane Aisenstein ... Yvonne, La fille du bar
Micheline Bona ... Geneviève
Gisèle Grandpré ... Jacqueline Mauclair

Description: The former Captain Julien Tavernier works in the company of the powerful arms dealer Simon Carala and is the lover of his wife Florence Carala. Julien and Florence plot a scheme to kill Simon simulating a suicide. Julien stays after-hours in the company with the telephone operator and the doorman and comes to his office. He climbs to Simon's office using a rope outside the window and kills the executive. He runs to his office to attend a phone call and forgets the rope, and leaves the building with the two employees to have an alibi. When he is ready to drive his car, he sees the rope hanging outside the building and he returns to withdraw the rope, leaving his overcoat and revolver in the car. Then the things get even more complicated...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/TrQAZydDBJe


A set of extras included:

* New interview with actress Jeanne Moreau (2005, 18 mins)
* Archival interviews with Louis Malle (1975, 17:06), actors Maurice Ronet (1975, 4:37) and original soundtrack session pianist René Urtreger (14:43)
* Footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session (5:51)
* Interview - Malle and Moreau at Cannes (1993, 10:40) * "Miles goes modal" - new video program about the score with jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins (25:01)
* Malle's student film "Crazeologie", featuring the title song by Charlie Parker (1954, 6:17)
* Original theatrical trailer and Rialto release trailer
* Soundtrack - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack - possibly inspired by the Modern Jazz Quartet's recording for Roger Vadim's Sait-on jamais (Does One Ever Know), released a few months earlier in 1957. Miles was booked to perform at the Club St-Germain in Paris for November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Miles agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On December 4, he brought his four sidemen to the Le Poste Parisien recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Miles only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any precomposed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background. Jazz Track, an album that contains ten songs from this soundtrack, received a 1960 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance, Solo or Small Group. This upload is also containing all of the outtakes and raw recordings without reverb which were previously unreleased. Personnel include Miles Davis on Trumpet, Barney Wilgen on tenor sax, Rene Urteger on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums


Tracks 1-16 are released for the first time, tracks 17-26 are the original release from 1958.

Track List (344 MB, FLAC)

1. Generique
2. Assassinat de Carala
3. Sur l'Autoroute
4. Julien dans l'Ascenseur
5. Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysees
6. Diner au Motel
7. Evasion de Julien
8. Visite du Vigile
9. Bar du Petit Bac
10. Chez le Photographe du Motel
11. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Take 1]
12. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Take 2]
13. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Generique]
14. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysees]
15. Assassinat [Take 1]
16. Assassinat [Julien dans L`Ascenseur]
17. Assassinat [L`Assassinat de Carala]
18. Motel (Diner au Motel)
19. Final [Take 1]
20. Final [Take 2]
21. Final [Chez le Photographe du Motel]
22. Ascenseur [Evasion de Julien]
23. Ascenseur [Evasion de Julien]
24. Petit Bal [Au Bar du Petit Bac]
25. Sequence Voiture [Take 1]
26. Sequence Voiture [Sur l'Autoroute]


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.58 GB, 2477 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790*480 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 87 MB, 132 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech) posters and screenshots included