Sunday, November 29, 2015

The man in the white suit (1951) - classic British satire/comedy directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 85 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/

Cast

Alec Guinness ... Sidney Stratton
Joan Greenwood ... Daphne Birnley
Cecil Parker ... Alan Birnley
Michael Gough ... Michael Corland
Ernest Thesiger ... Sir John Kierlaw
Howard Marion-Crawford ... Cranford
Henry Mollison ... Hoskins
Vida Hope ... Bertha
Patric Doonan ... Frank

Description: The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/jgbTZ5WqhAW


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.92 GB, 3223 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 788x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 152
Audio : 137 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 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, Greek, German, Italian, Turkish, Serbian) posters and screenshots included

Forbidden planet (1956) - classic sci-fi movie directed by Fred M. Wilcox, starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly and Richard Anderson

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 98 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/

Cast

Walter Pidgeon ... Dr. Morbius
Anne Francis ... Altaira Morbius
Leslie Nielsen ... Commander Adams
Warren Stevens ... Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow
Jack Kelly ... Lt. Farman
Richard Anderson ... Chief Quinn
Earl Holliman ... Cook
Robby the Robot ... Robby the Robot
George Wallace ... Bosun
Robert Dix ... Crewman Grey

Description: An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. They find that Dr. Edward Morbius and his beautiful daughter Altaira are the only survivors from the original expedition that had arrived some 20 years before. Morbius isn't exactly pleased to see them and would have preferred that they not even land their spaceship. He does his best to get them on their way but Commander Abrams and his men soon face an invisible force leading them to believe that Morbius and the girl are in danger. Morbius claims to know nothing of other life on the planet but does reveal there once existed a far superior race, now extinct, that left a huge subterranean industrial and scientific complex.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/aSyHdrqNFum


Also included a set of extra materials:

* Deleted scenes - Presents footage from a "workprint" used by the film's composers, editors and effects artists during post-production. Some of these moments were deleted from the film entirely, while other footage gives us scenes in their rough state before the addition of special-effects and sound. The chief points of interest are the alternate opening narration, the spaceship landing, a wholly cut sequence of Robby speeding Adams and his men across the desert in the "atomic car" toward their first encounter with Morbius and the dialogue concerning Altaira`s "maiden purity".

* Lost footage - Features test footage of special-effects sequences, such as planets and starfields, "DC Stations", the C-57D model over Altair 4, alternate takes of the spaceship landing and the Monster`s "footprints", matte paintings of the Krell Machine and footage incorporated into the Monster blaster battle.

* Excerpt from MGM Parade S01E27 & S01E28 (1956) - Walter Pidgeon addresses us in MGM Parade. While hosting a TV adaptation of "Captains Courageous", he breaks to promote his new MGM feature, Forbidden Planet. Robby joins him in one of them, and the spot gives Robby a weird malevolent twist that must have come from some PR hack`s idea of what a giant robot was supposed to act like.

* The Thin Man S01E23 - "Robot Client" (28.02.1958) - Robby, with various modifications, made appearances on TV shows for years afterward, most famously on The Twilight Zone. Here we find him framed for murder in "Robot Client", a 1958 episode of "The Thin Man" TV series starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora Charles.

* "Amazing! Exploring the far reaches of Forbidden Planet (2006)" - In addition to reuniting the surviving cast members of the '56 classic (including Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Richard Anderson, Warren Stevens, and Earl Holliman), "Amazing! Exploring the far reaches of Forbidden Planet" is an appreciative tribute to Forbidden Planet with some of Hollywood's foremost sci-fi fans including special effects masters Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, SF movie expert Bill Warren and others.

* "Robby the Robot: Engineering a sci-fi icon (2006)" - A featurette about the robot's design, creation and pop-cultural history, featuring original "Robby" designer Robert Kinoshita, Bill Malone (current owner of the original Robby), and Fred "The Robot Man" Barton, a lifelong robot fanatic who now sells fully authorized, full-scale replicas of Robby for sci-fi fans with deep pockets.

* "Watch the Skies!: Science fiction, the 1950s and us (2005)" - A documentary from Turner Classic Movies, written and directed by Time magazine critic Richard Schickel. It's a thoroughly comprehensive survey of '50s sci-fi and its influence on the next generation of film directors, including engaging interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Ridley Scott and James Cameron.

* Trailer


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.23 GB, 4701 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x426 (2.4:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 316 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Serbian, Swedish, Danish, Czech, Greek, Italian), posters and screenshots included

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes movies - Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 65 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Roy William Neill
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038008/

Cast

Basil Rathbone ... Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce ... Dr. Watson
Marjorie Riordan ... Sheila Woodbury
Rosalind Ivan ... Agatha Dunham
Morton Lowry ... Sanford
Leslie Vincent ... Nikolas Watson
Martin Kosleck ... Mirko
Rex Evans ... Gregor
John Abbott ... Jodri
Gerald Hamer ... Kingston
William 'Wee Willie' Davis ... Gubec
Frederick Worlock ... Prime Minister

Description: Holmes and Watson are recruited by the Prime Minister of a foreign country to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father's assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson's nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship's steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/ivdbzt7v


Video and audio information:

Video : 817 MB, 1756 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 209 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, German, Turkish, Serbian) and screenshots included

Friday, November 20, 2015

Giant (1956) - epic drama from director George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Dennis Hopper and Rod Taylor

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 201 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: George Stevens
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049261/

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor ... Leslie Benedict
Rock Hudson ... Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr.
James Dean ... Jett Rink
Carroll Baker ... Luz Benedict II
Jane Withers ... Vashti Snythe
Chill Wills ... Uncle Bawley
Mercedes McCambridge ... Luz Benedict
Dennis Hopper ... Jordan Benedict III
Sal Mineo ... Angel Obregón II
Rod Taylor ... Sir David Karfrey
Judith Evelyn ... Mrs. Nancy Lynnton

Description: Sprawling, epic tale of a wealthy Texas rancher and his wife, their descendants and their life together over 25 years. Bick Benedict met his future wife Leslie while on a trip East to buy breeding stock, returning home with a bride. Living on a half-million acre ranch takes some getting used to for Leslie as does the rough and tumble lifestyle. They have children who have their own minds and are apt to disappoint their parents over their life choices. As Leslie says at one point, you can't live their lives for them you can only raise them. Bick Benedict's rival is a former ranch hand, Jett Rink, who inherits a tract of land from Bick's late sister Luz. Jett strikes oil and becomes as wealthy as the Benedicts although there is one thing Bick has that he can never have as his own.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/hd0cf8h1


Also included a set of extra materials:

* Introduction by George Stevens Jr

* "Memories of Giant" (1998) - George Stevens Jr, Rock Hudson, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers and Earl Holliman are interviewed. The focus is less a making of film and more just letting various stars from the movie recall the experience - particularly how much they enjoyed the camaraderie during and after shooting. Much of this is because the film was made in "the middle of nowhere" in Texas (Marfa, Texas to be exact) - and at nights there wasn't much to do but spend their time together. We are also very lucky that the director (George Stevens) and Rock Hudson had previously been filmed talking about this, as they had died long before the special feature was made. Also, while they don't say why, apparently Elizabeth Taylor did not wish to be interviewed for the film and James Dean died way back in 1955. Well worth seeing - especially since all the nice stuff they said about each other was not part of the studio publicity department (as it's always obviously staged) and they gave some interesting anecdotes (such as how shy Dean was).

* "On location in Marfa, Texas" - filming locations discussed by Gig Young

* "Giant stars are off to Texas" - pre-production film clip

* "A visit with Dimitri Tiomkin" - Gig Young and movie's music composer Dimitri Tiomkin featurette

* "Return to giant" (2003) - Don Henley (Narrator), Don Graham (University of Texas), Earl Holliman, Bryan Woolley (Dallas Morning News), Carroll Baker, George Stevens, Jr., Dennis Hopper, Fran Bennett and Monte Hale are all featured in new or archival interviews about the making of Giant. Not only do we get the basic Hollywood story of the cast coming together, the script coming together and the director putting it all together but what's most fascinating is getting the story from the locals who had this major motion picture coming to their town. The most interesting interviews come from locals who recall the making of the movie as they saw it. It's made very clear that Stevens enjoyed the locals coming by to watch the filming and apparently he would even invite them into the local theater where he would watch the dailies. One example is Clay Evans whose property was used for the set of the house. We also hear from the Mayor of Marfa, Texas who discusses the state of the city and what it meant for them to have Hollywood come there. We're taken to where much of the film was shot and there were several places where the old sets are still standing even though they're in very bad shape today. As with any document on Giant, there's also talk of the people getting the news that James Dean had been killed. There's also some talk about how most Texans hated the book but they all fell in love with the movie.

* "George Stevens - A filmmaker's journey (1984) - Biography of director George Stevens by his son. It includes clips from many of his films with commentary by the actors and by directors such as Frank Capra, John Huston and Alan Pakula, among others. Also included are Stevens's war "home movies," found only after his death. Assigned by Eisenhower to film the war in Europe, Stevens used the opportunity to produce, at the same time, the only color footage ever shot in World War II. There is breathtaking film of D-Day and its aftermath; the triumphal march through Paris of the Allied liberators; and the unspeakable horrors of Dachau. This is what Goya might have done with a movie camera. On a more mundane level is a segment on Cecil B. DeMille's 1950 underhanded attempt to oust Joseph L. Mankiewicz, then president, from the Directors' Guild, which Stevens was instrumental in blocking.

* Set of trailers - 1956, 1963, 1970 and book trailer


Video and audio information:

Video : 5.17 GB, 3683 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 796x480 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 138
Audio : 644/115 MB (main/commentary), 448/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, German, Italian (all for hearing impaired) and Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Czech, Chinese simplified, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate Greek, Hungarian, Serbian), posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by George Stevens Jr., critic Stephen Farber and screenwriter Ivan Moffatt. 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, commentary on Track 2)

Sunday, November 1, 2015

The Cincinnati kid (1965) - one of best poker movies made ever, starring Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Karl Swenson and Joan Blondell

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Norman Jewison
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059037/

Cast

Steve McQueen ... The Cincinnati Kid
Ann-Margret ... Melba
Karl Malden ... Shooter
Tuesday Weld ... Christian
Edward G. Robinson ... Lancey Howard
Joan Blondell ... Lady Fingers
Rip Torn ... Slade
Jack Weston ... Pig
Karl Swenson ... Mr. Rudd

Description: In 1930's New Orleans, Eric Stoner, better known as the Cincinnati Kid in the circles in which he travels, is an up and coming gambler, most specifically in back room games of stud poker. When the older Lancey Howard comes to town, he who is known as the best in the game, the Kid wants to play him and win so that his reputation will rise in gambling circles. The Kid's friend Shooter arranges the game easily as the Kid's reputation precedes him. In the lead up to the game, the Kid faces numerous distractions including: Christian, his girlfriend who wants more of a commitment from him; Melba, Shooter's sluttish wife, who lets it be known she is willing to cheat on Shooter just like she cheats on everything else in life; and the increasing betting odds against him in the big game. The wealthy William Jefferson Slade tries to blackmail Shooter, the dealer, into rigging the game in the Kid's favor solely to get back at Lancey. Problems may ensue for the Kid because of the attempted blackmail, regardless of if Shooter buckles under the pressure.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_elQwd0NCVV9ueW8

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=34452110197419759926


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.94 GB, 2708 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1018x576 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 329 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Ulzana's raid (1972) - another classic western from director Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison and Joaquín Martínez

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069436/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... McIntosh
Joaquín Martínez ... Ulzana
Bruce Davison ... Lt. Garnett DeBuin
Jorge Luke ... Ke-Ni-Tay
Richard Jaeckel ... Sergeant
Lloyd Bochner ... Capt. Charles Gates
Karl Swenson ... Willy Rukeyser
Douglass Watson ... Maj. Cartwright
Dran Hamilton ... Mrs. Riordan
John Pearce ... Corporal
Gladys Holland ... Mrs. Rukeyser
Margaret Fairchild ... Mrs. Abbie Ginsford

Description: Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naiveté and hidden prejudice.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_dldRNEJ6LWNNQWc

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=54397937163681129980


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.41 GB, 2000 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 704x448 ~> 852x448 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 129
Audio : 142 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MP3, CBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Czech, Greek, Serbian, Dutch, Turkish), posters and screenshots included

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Boris Karloff's Thriller - season 2, episodes 1-8

Episode 1 - What beckoning ghost?

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Judith Evelyn ... Mildred Adler Beaumont
Tom Helmore ... Eric Beaumont
Adele Mara ... Lydia Adler
Frank Wilcox ... The Detective

Description: When a concert pianist envisions her own coffin in her drawing room, she doubts her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ's funeral music in the isolated, haunted mansion. Wealthy, but plain Mildred's been housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sensual sister and ne'er-do-well husband, who Mildred dangles on a short financial leash.


Episode 2 - Guillotine

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Robert Middleton ... Monsieur de Paris
Danielle De Metz ... Babette Lamont
Alejandro Rey ... Robert Lamont
Gregory Morton ... The Prison Director
Marcel Hillaire ... The Barber, M. Guillaume
Gaylord Cavallaro ... The Cabbie, Francois Trintineaux
Janine Grandel ... Madame LeClerc

Description: France, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole that he would be pardoned if the executioner dies before his execution. He then enlists his wife in a scheme to make sure that this improbable scenario comes to pass.


Episode 3 - The premature burial

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Sidney Blackmer ... Edward Stapleton
Scott Marlowe ... Julian Boucher
Patricia Medina ... Victorine Lafourcade
William D. Gordon ... Doctor March
Richard Flato ... The Friar
Lillian O'Malley ... The Housekeeper
J. Pat O'Malley ... The Butler

Description: An aging millionaire survives being buried alive, but his devilish fiancée plans to take advantage of his next cataleptic seizure, by marrying him and then making sure he stays in his grave. Then the gorgeous Victorine will inherit his estate, and run off with her young lover, a painter. But the cataleptic millionaire and his loyal physician Dr. Thorn take every possible measure to allow him to survive another mistaken entombment.


Episode 4 - The weird tailor

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Henry Jones ... Erik Borg
George Macready ... Mr. Smith
Abraham Sofaer ... Nicolai
Stanley Adams ... Mr. Schwenk
Sondra Blake ... Anna Borg
Iphigenie Castiglioni ... Madame Roberti

Description: When a scholar, Mr. Smith, inadvertently kills his son Arthur during a mystic magic ritual, he tries to make amends by turning to black magic to resurrect his child. Smith designs a unique suit of unearthly material, and hires a financially-stricken tailor to make it to the unique specifications. Meanwhile, the tailor's abused wife turns to a damaged mannequin for solace.


Episode 5 - God grante that she lye stille

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Ronald Howard ... Dr. Edward Stone
Sarah Marshall ... Lady Margaret Clewer / Elspeth Clewer
Henry Daniell ... Vicar John Weatherford
Avis Scott ... Nurse Emmons
Madeleine Taylor Holmes ... Sarah
Victor Buono ... Dr. Van de Velde

Description: In 1661 Elspeth Clewer is burned as a witch, cursing her family with her dying breath. Three hundred years to the day afterward, Lady Margaret Clewer returns to her ancestral home to claim her inheritance and finds the ghost of Elspeth trying to seize her body so she can walk the Earth once more.


Episode 6 - Masquerade

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Elizabeth Montgomery ... Rosamond Denham
Tom Poston ... Charlie Denham
John Carradine ... Jed Carta
Jack Lambert ... Lem Carta
Dorothy Neumann ... Ruthie Carta

Description: A family of cannibalistic thieves menace a young couple, but the husband laughs off their scary Southern hotel as a joke. The lovebirds became lost on a second honeymoon and sought shelter in the spooky Baits Hotel, but were quickly locked in by the Carta Family. The gorgeous wife Rosalynn is appalled to find the Cartas have a private jail cell, containing haggard female relative Ruth Carta, who pleads for the young woman to release her.


Episode 7 - The last of the Sommervilles

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself / Dr. Albert Farnham
Phyllis Thaxter ... Ursula Sommerville
Martita Hunt ... Celia Sommerville
Chet Stratton ... Harvey Parchester
Peter Walker ... Rutherford Sommerville

Description: Dragging a murder victim to burial is just one chore a servant undertakes to become the last Sommerville standing, to win a wealthy old woman's inheritance. As a distant relative, Ursula steps up her elimination contest when a closer, desperate Sommerville arrives to drain off some of his aunt's estate for a business bailout.


Episode 8 - Letter to a lover

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Ann Todd ... Sylvia Lawrence
Murray Matheson ... Andrew Lawrence
Felix Deebank ... Donald Carver
Avis Scott ... Estelle Weber
Jack Greening ... Inspector Rogers
Richard Peel ... Sergeant Lathrop
Brendan Dillon ... Coggins

Description: After the murder of a London doctor, emotionally disturbed Sylvia Lawrence secretly sends a letter to her ex-lover Donald revealing that her husband Andrew is holding her a virtual prisoner at their remote vacation home; Andrew claims to be protecting her but what is he really hiding? And why is he being blackmailed by the late doctor's nurse?


Extras for episodes from this post (promos not included in my source):

2x01 - What beckoning ghost? (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x02 - Guillotine (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x03 - The Premature burial (Audio commentary by Ernest Dickerson, Tim Lucas and David Schow, Isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x04 - The weird tailor (Audio commentary by Daniel Benton and Gary Gerani, Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x05 - God grante that she lye stille (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x06 - Masquerade (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x07 - The last of the Somervilles (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x08 - Letter to a lover (Isolated music score by Morton Stevens)


Download link (torrent file)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_RW9OekdnNnREZ2c

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=05985147157223391714

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes movies - The House of Fear (1945)

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 69 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Roy William Neill
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037794/

Cast

Basil Rathbone ... Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce ... Dr. Watson
Dennis Hoey ... Inspector Lestrade
Aubrey Mather ... Bruce Alastair
Paul Cavanagh ... Dr. Simon Merrivale
Holmes Herbert ... Alan Cosgrave
Harry Cording ... Captain John Simpson
Sally Shepherd ... Mrs. Monteith
Gavin Muir ... Chalmers

Description: Sherlock Holmes is approached by an insurance company representative when two members of a very exclusive club die in mysterious circumstances. In a manor house in a remote part of Scotland, the only 7 members of the Good Comrades club meet for dinner but during the meal, Ralph King receives an envelope addressed to him and he died the following night. Soon after, a second message is received for Stanley Rayburn, a once distinguished actor and he too soon died in mysterious circumstances. The envelopes they receive contain only orange pips, one for each remaining member of the club. They all suspect one another and as the murders continue, the number of suspects is reduced. For Sherlock Holmes however, the case is not so simple and he looks to another solution to the crime.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/i0t1ygj7


Video and audio information:

Video : 863 MB, 1743 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 222 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, German, Turkish, Serbian, Greek, Finnish), posters and screenshots included

The wild bunch (1969) - excellent western from director Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and Edmond O'Brien

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 144 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/

Cast

William Holden ... Pike Bishop
Ernest Borgnine ... Dutch Engstrom
Robert Ryan ... Deke Thornton
Edmond O'Brien ... Freddie Sykes
Warren Oates ... Lyle Gorch
Jaime Sánchez ... Angel
Ben Johnson ... Tector Gorch
Emilio Fernández ... Mapache
Strother Martin ... Coffer
L.Q. Jones ... T.C
Albert Dekker ... Harrigan
Bo Hopkins ... Crazy Lee

Description: A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapache" Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/StiHgQ0Ky8Hd4xp/file


Also included a set of extra materials:

* An excerpt from "A simple adventure story - Sam Peckinpah, Mexico and The Wild Bunch" - a documentary film by Nick Redman
* Never seen before outtakes
* "Sam Peckinpah's West - Legacy of a Hollywood renegade" - the documentary reveals a tortured artist whose genius and demons changed the Western forever. Interviewees include actor/director Billy Bob Thornton, Benicio Del Toro, Paul Schrader, film critic Roger Ebert, actors who worked with Peckinpah such as Harry Dean Stanton, Stella Stevens, L.Q. Jones and others. The personal side of Peckinpah will feature interviews with family members, sister Fern Lee, son Mathew Peckinpah, plus exclusive home movies and photos.
* "The wild bunch - An album in montage" - Nominated in 1996 for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage is a behind the scenes look at the making of an American classic. In 1995, some 70 minutes of black and white footage of Peckinpah directing The Wild Bunch were discovered on a shelf in the vaults of Warner Bros. Studios. No one knows who shot them or how they got there, but they've sat there for over a quarter of a century. Paul Seydor, a Peckinpah scholar, teamed up with Nick Redman, a music archivist who'd recently restored the soundtrack of The Wild Bunch for compact disc. Combining newly found footage, scenes from the finished movie, and commentary, they have created a remarkably insightful work: a privileged glimpse at a great director working on his masterpiece. With the voices of Ed Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brian and others.
* "Cambridge Film Handbooks: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch" (1999) by Stephen Price - Demonstrating to filmmakers the power of irony as a narrative voice and its effectiveness as a tool for exploring and portraying brutality, The Wild Bunch fundamentally changed the Western, moving it into a more brutal and psychopathic territory than it had ever inhabited before. This volume includes freshly commissioned essays by several leading scholars of Peckinpah's work. Examining the film's production history from script to screen, its rich and ambivalent vision of American society, and its relationship to the western genre, among other topics, it provides a definitive reinterpretation of an enduring film classic.
Stephen Prince is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultra-Violent Movies; Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film; and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film.
* "Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the rise of ultraviolent movies" (1998) by Stephen Prince - More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social effects, and the relation of contemporary ultraviolence to the radical, humanistic filmmaking that Peckinpah practiced. Prince demonstrates Peckinpah's complex approach to screen violence and shows him as a serious artist whose work was tied to the social and political upheavals of the 1960s. He explains how the director's commitment to showing the horror and pain of violence compelled him to use a complex style that aimed to control the viewer's response. Prince offers an unprecedented portrait of Peckinpah the filmmaker. Drawing on primary research materials--Peckinpah's unpublished correspondence, scripts, production memos, and editing notes--he provides a wealth of new information about the making of the films and Peckinpah's critical shaping of their content and violent imagery. This material shows Peckinpah as a filmmaker of intelligence, a keen observer of American society, and a tragic artist disturbed by the images he created.


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.24 GB, 2213 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x422 (2.4:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 464/83 MB (main/commentary), 448/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Greek, Turkish, Polish), posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Peckinpah biographers: Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle. 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, commentary on Track 2)

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Tight spot (1955) - lesser known film noir directed by Phil Karlson, starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 96 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Phil Karlson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048724/

Cast

Ginger Rogers ... Sherry Conley
Edward G. Robinson ... Lloyd Hallett
Brian Keith ... Vince Striker
Lucy Marlow ... Prison Girl
Lorne Greene ... Benjamin Costain
Katherine Anderson ... Mrs. Willoughby
Allen Nourse ... Marvin Rickles
Peter Leeds ... Fred Packer

Description: Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand, and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel, several attempts are made on her life, and she falls for Vince, the policemen guarding her.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/9Q6yKSx7T7A


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.56 GB, 3813 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 66/66 MB (main/commentary), 96/96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Serbian) 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 Nora Flore. 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)