Saturday, April 8, 2023

There's always tomorrow (1956) - lesser known drama directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Bennett

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 84 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049843/

Cast

Fred MacMurray ... Clifford Groves
Barbara Stanwyck ... Norma Miller Vale
Joan Bennett ... Marion Groves
William Reynolds ... Vinnie Groves
Pat Crowley ... Ann
Gigi Perreau ... Ellen Groves
Jane Darwell ... Mrs. Rogers
Race Gentry ... Bob

Description: Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Alone and depressed, he meets old flame Norma, and one thing leads to another. While their relationship is still fairly innocent, his son Vinnie sees them together and suspects the worst. It's time for tortured souls behind rain-streaming windows...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/ugckcygu


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.26 GB, 3830 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 854x462 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 63/116 MB (main/commentary), 104/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek) 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 historian Samm Deighan. 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)

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Gang Busters (1942) - lesser known crime serial from Universal Studios directed by Noel M. Smith/Ray Taylor, starring Kent Taylor, Irene Harvey, Ralph Morgan, Robert Armstrong and Joseph Crehan

Rating 7.1/10
Runtime: 251 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Noel M. Smith/Ray Taylor
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034767/

Cast

Kent Taylor ... Det. Lt. Bill Bannister
Irene Hervey ... Vicki Logan
Ralph Morgan ... Dr. Clayton Maxton AKA Prof. Mortis
Robert Armstrong ... Det. Tim Nolan
Richard Davies ... Happy Haskins
Joseph Crehan ... Police Chief Martin O'Brien
George Watts ... Mayor Hansen
Ralf Harolde ... Halliger

Description: Detective Lt.Bill Bannister has the assignment to run down an unknown gang of terrorists spreading a net of crime over the city. Aiding him is Detective Tim Nolan, news photographer Vicki Logan and reporter Happy Haskins. Bill finds that the gang's leader is a mysterious Professor Mortis and the gang is made up of known criminals officially listed in the police records as dead. Each has become of member of Mortis' "League of Murdered Men" after seemingly committing suicide by hanging while on death row. Bill eventually, after surviving a plane crash, being dynamited, dropped down a well and other nuisances, tracks the gang to two hideouts; a subterranean cell beneath the city's subways and a suburban mystery house.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/emflfc45


Video and audio information:

Video : 272 MB, 2001 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 632x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 26 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English hearing impaired closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired) posters and screenshots included

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Kiss the blood off my hands (1948) - little known film noir directed by Norman Foster, starring Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine and Robert Newton

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 89 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Norman Foster
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040512/

Cast

Joan Fontaine ... Jane Wharton
Burt Lancaster ... Bill Saunders
Robert Newton ... Harry Carter
Lewis L. Russell ... Tom Widgery
Aminta Dyne ... Landlady
Grizelda Hervey ... Mrs. Paton

Description: In London, Canadian-born American war veteran Bill Saunders, uneducated, has always felt most at home at war in it matching his violent temper, his war experience only exacerbating that temper. It is that temper that gets him into potential trouble as a barroom brawl leads to him accidentally killing a man. Initially able to escape that situation and evade the police, he subsequently comes into the realm of two people who will individually shape his life. The first is shy public health nurse Jane Wharton, who, despite the non-trusting nature of their initial meeting and knowing deep in her heart that he did something wrong, is nonetheless drawn to him as the two start to fall for each other, she potentially being the source of redemption he needs in his life. Threatening that potential redemption is the second, Harry Carter, who witnessed Bill kill that man, and who believes he can use that information to blackmail Bill into helping him in some big score.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/wdnr5h97


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.75 GB, 3170 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 788x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 127/54 MB (main/commentary), 224/96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 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, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Turkish, Croatian, 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 historian Jeremy Arnold. 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)

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Hollow triumph AKA The scar (1948) - little known film noir directed by Steve Sekely, starring Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks and John Qualen

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 83 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Steve Sekely/Paul Hendreid
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040444/

Cast

Paul Henreid ... John Muller
Joan Bennett ... Evelyn Hahn
Eduard Franz ... Frederick Muller
Leslie Brooks ... Virginia Taylor
John Qualen ... Swangron
Mabel Paige ... Charwoman
Herbert Rudley ... Marcy
Charles Arnt ... Coblenz
George Chandler ... Aubrey - Assistant

Description: After being released from prison, John Muller reunites his gang. He plots to heist the casino owned by dangerous and powerful mobster Rocky Stansyck, but the holdup goes wrong. Johnny gets away and hides out in a city where he's not known, until he's followed by a man who tells him he's the doppelganger of his neighbor, psychoanalyst Dr. Bartok; the only difference is the scar on Bartok's face. Muller decides to assume the doctor's identity to save his life. But will it work?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/jy3j4lcx


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.24 GB, 3864 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 96/49 MB (main/commentary), 161/82 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 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, Greek, Italian, Turkish) 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 historian Imogen Sara Smith. 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)

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Ruthless (1948) - little known crime/film noir movie directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet and Martha Vickers

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040751/

Cast

Zachary Scott ... Horace Woodruff Vendig
Louis Hayward ... Vic Lambdin
Diana Lynn ... Martha Burnside
Sydney Greenstreet ... Buck Mansfield
Lucille Bremer ... Christa Mansfield
Martha Vickers ... Susan Duane
Edith Barrett ... Mrs. Burnside
Dennis Hoey ... Mr. Burnside
Raymond Burr ... Pete Vendig

Description: While in a philanthropic meeting promoted by the millionaire Horace Woodruff Vendig, the guest Vic Lambdin tells the history of the beginning and end of his friendship with the host to his date Mallory Flagg. When they are boys, Horace is a poor boy from a dysfunctional family and Vic's best friend who saves wealthy Martha Burnside from drowning in a river. Horace is adopted by the rich Burnside family and later sent to Harvard; he gets engaged to Martha, on whom Vic has a crush. When ambitious Horace meets the wealthier Susan Duane, who belongs to a more influential family, he calls off his engagement to Martha and moves to New York with Susan to continue his social raise. Later he meets shark Buck Mansfield and seduces his young wife Christa to profit in business, leading to tragic consequences.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/3oc0jpb2


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.53 GB, 3446 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 81 MB, 107 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (Separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, February 25, 2023

The life and death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - war movie directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie and Neville Mapp

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 163 min
Language: English/French/German
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/

Cast

Roger Livesey ... Clive Candy
Deborah Kerr ... Edith Hunter
Anton Walbrook ... Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
James McKechnie ... Spud Wilson
Neville Mapp ... Stuffy Graves
Vincent Holman ... Club Porter (1942)
David Hutcheson ... Hoppy

Description: The setting is 1943 Britain. Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, a forty year military officer, is seen by some of his younger eager officers as an old, soft, pudgy man with a ridiculous mustache, he who has outdated ideas of what is required to win the war. But they have no idea of his background and military history, which shaped his outlook and the man he is today, including why he wears a mustache. This history includes a diplomatic row in Berlin over the German view of the British military in the Boer War, his time in the front lines in France during WWI and what he believes was the reason for the end of that war, and his need to reinvent himself over the course of WWII. He is also shaped by his friendship with four specific people, one being Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, a German officer with whom he had an inauspicious inaugural meeting in 1902. The other three are the significant women of his life: Berlin based English schoolteacher Edith Hunter, Red Cross nurse Barbara Wynne, and Angela "Johnny" Cannon, his personal driver during WWII.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/ipz9hxhk


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.41 GB, 2969 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 114/94 MB (main/commentary), 96/80 Kbps, 48000 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, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by director Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese. 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)

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Objective, Burma!! (1945) - lesser known war movie directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince and George Tobias

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 142 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037954/

Cast

Errol Flynn ... Capt. Nelson
James Brown ... SSgt. Treacy
William Prince ... Lt. Sid Jacobs
George Tobias ... Cpl. Gabby Gordon
Henry Hull ... Mark Williams
Warner Anderson ... Col. J. Carter
John Alvin ... Hogan

Description: In 1944, Capt. Charlie Nelson leads a platoon of paratroopers into Burma to blow up a Japanese radar station in advance of the allied invasion. They're accompanied on the mission by Mark William, an American journalist who is there to write about their exploits. The mission goes off without a hitch and without the loss of any men. The plan was for them to be picked up by two transport airplanes at an old landing strip but a Japanese patrol prevents them from doing so. The men are now forced to march towards the front lines, however the closer they get, the greater the number of Japanese troops they will face. With the Air Corps dropping them supplies at agreed locations, the men move on but few of them remain after encounters with the enemy. Eventually, they are all presumed lost just as the invasion is launched...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/sZtFJhcZSfj


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.62 GB, 3656 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 146/86 MB (main/commentary), 144/85 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 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, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Turkish) 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 historian/writer Rudy Behlmer, journalist/author Jon Burlingame and film historian Frank Thompson. 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)

Sunday, February 5, 2023

In which we serve (1942) - classic war drama co-directed by Noël Coward and David Lean, starring Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles and Celia Johnson

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 115 min
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Noël Coward/David Lean
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034891/

Cast

Noël Coward ... Capt. E.V. Kinross R.N. - Captain 'D'
John Mills ... Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake
Bernard Miles ... Chief Petty Officer Walter Hardy
Celia Johnson ... Mrs. Alix Kinross
Kay Walsh ... Freda Lewis
Joyce Carey ... Mrs. Kath Hardy
Derek Elphinstone ... No. 1

Description: This is the story of a British Naval ship, H.M.S. Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is the experienced Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him, but to the country, and most importantly, to themselves. They face challenges at sea, and also at home. They lose some of their shipmates in action, and some of their loved ones in the devastation that is the blitz. Throughout it all, the men of the Torrin serve valiantly and heroically...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/vb94gl4e


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.35 GB, 4174 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 766x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 70 MB, 85 Kbps, 48000 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, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Finnish, Dutch, Czech) posters and screenshots included

Double audio track information

Sunday, January 22, 2023

49th parallel (1941) - little known war drama directed by Michael Powell, starring Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey and Anton Walbrook

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 122 min
Language: English/French/German
Country: USA
Directed by: Michael Powell
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/

Cast

Leslie Howard ... Philip Armstrong Scott
Laurence Olivier ... Johnnie - The Trapper
Raymond Massey ... Andy Brock
Anton Walbrook ... Peter
Eric Portman ... Lieutenant Ernst Hirth
Glynis Johns ... Anna
Niall MacGinnis ... Vogel

Description: In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boat's fanatical Nazi Captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party (lead by Lieutenant Hirth) reaches the shore, the U-boat is spotted and sunk by the Canadian Armed Forces, leaving the six members of the shore party stranded in Canada. The Nazi Lieutenant then starts to plan his crew's return to the Fatherland. He needs to reach the neutral U.S., or be captured. Along the way, they meet a variety of characters, each with their own views on the war and nationalism...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/exzsrq59


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.70 GB, 3173 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 121 MB, 138 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, VBR


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