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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Sudden fear (1952) - Joan Crawford, Jack Palance

Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
Directed by: David Miller
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045205/

Cast:

Joan Crawford ... Myra Hudson
Jack Palance ... Lester Blaine
Gloria Grahame ... Irene Neves
Bruce Bennett ... Steve Kearney
Virginia Huston ... Ann Taylor
Mike Connors ... Junior Kearney

Description: Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive? The answer brings on a game of cat and mouse; but who's the cat and who's the mouse?

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Thieves' highway (1949) - classic film noir directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Valentina Cortese, Millard Mitchell and Joseph Pevney

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Jules Dassin
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/

Cast

Richard Conte ... Nick Garcos
Valentina Cortese ... Rica
Lee J. Cobb ... Mike Figlia
Barbara Lawrence ... Polly Faber
Jack Oakie ... Slob
Millard Mitchell ... Ed Kinney
Joseph Pevney ... Pete

Description: Returning home to Fresno after the war, working class Nick Garcos is full of vim and vigor with a handful of cash to show for it and an armload of gifts for his family and his girl, Polly Faber, the two who plan to get married. Nick's enthusiasm is dampened when he sees that his father, Yanko Garcos, who transported produce - he buying directly from farmers to transport and sell to wholesalers at produce markets - has suffered at the hands of San Francisco wholesaler, Mike Figlia. Yanko is not totally certain that Figlia bilked him out of the payment for what was Yanko's final shipment - Yanko drunk at the time, he awakening with no money - but is certain that it was Figlia who got him drunk which Figlia arguably did to bilk him out of said payment and which led to the traffic accident resulting in the loss of his legs. Vowing revenge for what Figlia did to his father, Nick senses an opportunity upon meeting another produce transporter, Ed Kinney, with who he plans to partner in an upcoming shipment of much sought out apples. In the process, Nick discovers that among the mostly honest and up front people in the business, there are a few solely out to make a buck by whatever means, including cheating and stealing, such as Figlia. While not in the business, who may fall into that unscrupulous category is Rica, a party girl who Nick meets in the vicinity of the produce market where Figlia has his operation, she who sometimes seems to be on Nick's side in wanting to help him, but who he sometimes suspects may in reality be in Figlia's back pocket in her needy nature.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/TfsTSLtAxK9

Video and audio information:

Video : 1.43 GB, 2180 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 146
Audio : 129 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, 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-Brazilian, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Polish) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The desperate hours (1955) - classic crime/film noir movie directed by William Wyler, starring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Arthur Kennedy, Dewey Martin, Gig Young and Robert Middleton

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 112 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0047985

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Glenn Griffin
Fredric March ... Daniel Hilliard
Arthur Kennedy ... Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
Martha Scott ... Ellie Hilliard
Dewey Martin ... Hal Griffin
Gig Young ... Chuck Wright
Mary Murphy ... Cindy Hilliard
Robert Middleton ... Sam Kobish
Richard Eyer ... Ralphy Hilliard

Description: After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/BqqK9AUH4V3

Also a set of extras included:

* Trouble in Suburbia – brand new appreciation of the film by José Arroyo, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick (38:50 min)
* The Lonely Man – a visual essay by Eloise Ross, co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque (14:53 min)
* Scaled down and ratcheted up – brand new audio interview with Catherine Wyler, daughter of director William Wyler (11:46 min)
* Trailer (2:18 min)
* Lobby cards gallery (0:16 min)

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.70 GB, 3437 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 77/69/70 MB (main/commentary/commentary), 96/86/86 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC, CBR/CBR/CBR

Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired), Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German (including hearing impaired), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish 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, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew), posters and screenshots included

Triple audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the others are commentary by film historians Daniel Kremer and Kevin Lyons. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentaries on Track 2 and 3)

Sunday, May 17, 2009

An American in Paris (1951) - Gene Kelly in classic musical

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 114 min
Language: English/French
Country: USA
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043278/

Cast

Gene Kelly ... Jerry Mulligan
Leslie Caron ... Lise Bouvier
Oscar Levant ... Adam Cook
Georges Guétary ... Henri Baurel
Nina Foch ... Milo Roberts

Description: Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

The rules of the game aka La règle du jeu (1939) - Jean Renoir

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/

Cast

Nora Gregor .... Christine de la Cheyniest (as Nora Grégor)
Paulette Dubost .... Lisette, sa camériste
Mila Parély .... Geneviève de Marras
Odette Talazac .... Madame de la Plante
Claire Gérard .... Madame de la Bruyère
Anne Mayen .... Jackie, nièce de Christine
Lise Elina .... Radio-Reporter (as Lise Élina)
Marcel Dalio .... Robert de la Cheyniest (as Dalio)

Description: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece The Rules of the Game ('La Règle du jeu') is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. At a weekend hunting party, amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests and are mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs. The refusal of one of the guests to play by society’s rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Poorly received upon its release in 1939, the film was severely re-edited, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. Only in 1959 was the film fully reconstructed and embraced by audiences and critics who now see the film as a timeless representation of a vanishing way of life.

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Shenandoah (1965) - James Stewart

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059711/

Cast

James Stewart ... Charlie Anderson
Doug McClure ... Lt. Sam
Glenn Corbett ... Jacob Anderson
Patrick Wayne ... James Anderson
Rosemary Forsyth ... Jennie Anderson
Phillip Alford ... Boy Anderson
Katharine Ross ... Mrs. Ann Anderson
Charles Robinson ... Nathan Anderson
Jim McMullan ... John Anderson
Tim McIntire ... Henry Anderson

Description: Charlie Anderson is a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia and finds himself (and his family) in the middle of the Civil War. He decides not to get involved in the war because he believes that this is not "his" war. But he eventually has to get involved when his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

The naked city (1948) - Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff in classic film noir directed by Jules Dassin

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Jules Dassin
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040636/

Cast

Barry Fitzgerald ... Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon
Howard Duff ... Frank Niles
Dorothy Hart ... Ruth Morrison
Don Taylor ... Det. Jimmy Halloran
Frank Conroy ... Capt. Donahue
Ted de Corsia ... Willie Garzah aka Willie the Harmonica
House Jameson ... Dr. Stoneman

Description: The film starts with a drunk being knocked out and thrown into the river. A woman is discovered dead in her bathtub by her maid. It's determined chloroform was involved in her death. Enter Lt. Muldoon, whose precinct gets involved in the investigation. Muldoon and his right hand man, Det. Jimmy Halleran, also find out jewelry is missing. The dead woman Jean Dexter, a fashion model, leads the police to a Dr. Stoneman, a man that loved her. At the same time, another detective discovers a cigarette case that points to another man, Frank Niles, who also appears to be involved. The drunk in the river was a jewelry thief and he, in turn, points to Harmonica Willie, a tough guy with a criminal record.

Screens (to be updated later):

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_dC0xelRHZWY2WEk

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=44314643188578915745

Video and audio information (to be updated later):

Video :
Audio :

Subtitles (to be updated later)

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Smultronstället aka Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: Swedish/Latin
Country: Sweden
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050986/

Cast

Victor Sjöström ... Professor Isak Borg
Bibi Andersson ... Sara
Ingrid Thulin ... Marianne Borg
Gunnar Björnstrand ... Evald Borg
Jullan Kindahl ... Agda
Folke Sundquist ... Anders
Björn Bjelfvenstam ... Viktor
Naima Wifstrand ... Isak's Mother
Gunnel Broström ... Mrs. Alman
Gertrud Fridh ... Karin, Isak's wife

Description: Explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to receive an honorary award after 50 years of medical practice, he finds himself repeatedly affected by intrusive dreams and hallucinations that expose his darkest fears. He slowly comes to realize that the choices he made in the past have created a cold and empty life, devoid of real meaning or value. Finally, he achieves redemption and reintegration through forgiveness and the love of his family.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A day at the races (1937) - The Marx Brothers

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Sam Wood
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028772

Cast

Groucho Marx ... Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush
Chico Marx ... Tony
Harpo Marx ... Stuffy
Allan Jones ... Gil Stewart
Maureen O'Sullivan ... Judy Standish
Margaret Dumont ... Emily Upjohn

Description: Town villain Morgan has his sights set on taking over Judy's sanitarium and turning it into a casino. Aiding Judy in saving the sanitarium are Dr. Hugo Hackenbush, a horse doctor illegally employed as the sanitarium director; Tony, a helper at the sanitarium; and Stuffy, a jockey formerly employed by Morgan. Judy's boyfriend, Gil, a singer, has invested all his money in Hi Hat, a race horse he hopes will win enough to pay off the sanitarium debts. After Gil figures out the horse is a jumper and not a racer, the boys try to win a major steeplechase race, while Morgan and his men try to prevent the horse from getting onto the race track. Obligatory appearance by Margaret Dumont as the wealthy hypochondriac who might also save the santitarium from financial ruin.

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Download links:

CD 1

http://www.filesonic.com/file/2290210861/Day_at_rac_1.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2290562421/Day_at_rac_1.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2290918531/Day_at_rac_1.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2291638001/Day_at_rac_1.part4.rar

http://www.fileserve.com/file/yGrbZym/Day_at_rac_1.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/q992pab/Day_at_rac_1.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/VXSuVAs/Day_at_rac_1.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/GZeT8eM/Day_at_rac_1.part4.rar

CD 2

http://www.filesonic.com/file/2293837081/Day_at_rac_2.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2294025991/Day_at_rac_2.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2294147951/Day_at_rac_2.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2294217551/Day_at_rac_2.part4.rar

http://www.fileserve.com/file/UnpGmW7/Day_at_rac_2.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/26cF4zt/Day_at_rac_2.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/BpBSYJB/Day_at_rac_2.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/W6qbXSz/Day_at_rac_2.part4.rar

Video and audio information:

Video : 638/652 MB, 1532/1953 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 512*384 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4 1.2.0.dev47
Audio : 53/42 MB, 64 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MP3, 2 audio tracks

Subtitles (English, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Czech) + sample (8 MB)

http://www.fileserve.com/file/hDDUVEb

Password: www.onlyoldmovies.info

Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary track by Marx Brothers expert and writer of "The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia", Glenn Mitchell

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 warining 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 bottom 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.