Big house, U.S.A. (1955) - another film noir/prison flick, starring Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, William Talman and Charles Bronson

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 82 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Howard W. Koch
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047879/

Cast

Broderick Crawford ... Rollo Lamar
Ralph Meeker ... Jerry Barker
Reed Hadley ... Special FBI Agent James Madden
William Talman ... William 'Machine Gun' Mason
Lon Chaney Jr. ... Alamo Smith
Charles Bronson ... Benny Kelly
Felicia Farr ... Emily Euridice Evans
Roy Roberts ... Chief Ranger Will Erickson
Willis Bouchey ... Robertson Lambert
Peter J. Votrian ... Danny Lambert

Description: When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he goes for help. Instead, Barker calls the father and demands $200,000 ransom. The money is delivered and Barker buries most of it. Meanwhile, the panicky boy has fallen from the tower to his death, and Barker drops the body off a cliff. The FBI, led by James Madden, capture Barker but can't convict him of kidnapping and he is given only five years for extortion and sent to Casabel Island Prison. There he is assigned a cell with Rollo Lambar, Alamo Smith, Benny Kelly and Machine Gun Mason. The FBI have now traced an affiliation between Barker and Emily Evans, a nurse at Danny's camp. The five cell-mates, led by Rollo, who plans to kill Benny and dress him in Barker's clothes to throw off the police, execute an underwater prison escape and head north for the ransom money.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.65 GB, 4589 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 840x480 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 146
Audio : 126 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC, VBR


Unfortunately no subtitles available online for this movie, posters and screenshots included

Boris Karloff's Thriller - season 2, episodes 9-16

Episode 9 - A third for Pinochle

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Edward Andrews ... Maynard Thispin
Doro Merande ... Melba Pennaroyd
Ann Shoemaker ... Mrs. Thispin
June Walker ... Dierdre Pennaroyd
Barbara Perry ... Babs Dawson
Ken Lynch ... The Lieutenant

Description: Milquetoast plans bumping off his spouse, unaware the nosy sisters across the street just killed one's husband. Layabout Maynard has a cozy love nest for his kept woman Babs, but his stingy wife severely cramps his cheating style, so the would-be bon vivant accelerates his scheme.


Episode 10 - The closed cabinet

Cast:

Olive Sturgess ... Evie Bishop
David Frankham ... Alan Mervyn
Jennifer Raine ... Lucy Mervyn
Peter Forster ... George Mervyn
Doris Lloyd ... Dame Alice
Patricia Manning ... Lady Beatrice

Description: A medieval curse has hung over the Mervyn family for three hundred years, dictating that there will be a murder in the clan in every generation. A young American visitor is determined to break the curse by solving the riddle of the mysterious locked cabinet in the murder room.


Episode 11 - Dialogues with death

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself/Pop Jenkins/Col. Jackson Beauregard Finchess
Norma Crane ... Nell Le Jean ('Welcome Home')
Ed Nelson ... Tom Ellison/Daniel Le Jean
Estelle Winwood ... Aunt Emily Finchess ('Welcome Home')
William Schallert ... Prof. John MacFarland ('Friend of the Dead')
George Kane ... Harry Jervis ('Friend of the Dead')
Jimmy Joyce ... Burt ('Friend of the Dead')

Description: Two tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, an elderly morgue attendant can speak to the cadavers in his charge and he learns the identity of the gunman who killed a noted racketeer. In the second story, a greedy nephew returns to his family home in the Lousiana bayou to claim his inheritance but why does his dotty old aunt insist that he is dead?


Episode 12 - The return of Andrew Bentley

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself - Host
John Newland ... Ellis Corbett
Antoinette Bower ... Sheila Corbett
Philip Bourneuf ... Dr. Weatherbee
Oscar Beregi Jr. ... Rev. Burkhardt
Ken Renard ... Jacob
Terence de Marney ... Amos Wilder
Reggie Nalder ... Andrew Bentley

Description: White magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.


Episode 13 - The remarkable Mrs. Hawk

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Jo Van Fleet ... Mrs. Cissy Hawk
John Carradine ... Jason Longfellow
Paul Newlan ... Sheriff Tom Ulysses Willetts
Hal Baylor ... Pete Gogan
Martin Eric ... Larkin
Donald Elson ... Clemins

Description: Cissy Hawk's farm keeps gaining massive blue ribbon hogs, while the passing drifters she hires magically disappear. Well-read grifter Jason Longfellow figures he'll last a lot longer at her Isle of Aiaie via blackmail, but seductive Cissy keeps local Sheriff Ulysses wound around her finger tighter than a pig's tail.


Episode 14 - Portrait without a face

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Jane Greer ... Ann Moffat
Robert Webber ... Arthur Henshaw
Katherine Squire ... Agatha Moffat
George Mitchell ... Sheriff Pete Browning
Brian Gaffikin ... Nat Fairchild
John Banner ... Prof. Martin Vander Hoven

Description: Six months after an artist is mysteriously murdered, a blank canvas in his studio begins filling itself in, portraying the crime and building up to the revelation of the killer's identity.


Episode 15 - An attractive family

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Richard Long ... Dick Farrington
Leo G. Carroll ... Major Downey
Otto Kruger ... Bert Farrington
Joan Tetzel ... Marian Farrington
Joyce Bulifant ... Jinny Wells
Will Wright ... Constable Tom Walker

Description: Family that kills together seeks to stay together in style, by icing the heir of one of their victims, before she comes into her inheritance. If the heiress audits the books, she'll discover that the family has already blown her share of the estate. Her newlywed sister was backed off a cliff while having her photo snapped, so the younger sister is understandably leery of heights, but not of her very understanding new in-laws.


Episode 16 - Waxworks

Cast:

Boris Karloff ... Himself
Oskar Homolka ... Pierre Jacquelin
Martin Kosleck ... Col. Andre Bertroux
Antoinette Bower ... Annette Jacquelin
Ron Ely ... Lt. Mike Hudson
Alan Baxter ... Sergeant Dane
Booth Colman ... Lieutenant Bailey
J. Pat O'Malley ... The Morgue Attendant

Description: A murder outside a traveling wax museum attracts the attention of the police--and a European detective who claims that the wax figures of murderers are brought to life by black magic so they can kill again.


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

2x09 - A third for Pinochle (audio commentary by Ron Borst and Jim Wynorski, isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x10 - The closed cabinet (Isolated music score by Jerry Goldsmith)
2x11 - Dialogues with death (Isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x12 - The return of Andrew Bentley (Audio commentary by Gary Gerani and David Schow, isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x13 - The remarkable Mrs. Hawk (Isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x14 - Portrait without a face (Isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x15 - An attractive family (Isolated music score by Morton Stevens)
2x16 - Waxworks (Audio commentary by Ron Borst and Gary Gerani, isolated music score by Morton Stevens)


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Storm fear (1955) - another lesser known film noir, starring Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace and Dan Duryea

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 88 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Cornel Wilde
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049801/

Cast

Cornel Wilde ... Charlie Blake
Jean Wallace ... Elizabeth Blake
Dan Duryea ... Fred Blake
Lee Grant ... Edna Rogers
David Stollery ... David Blake
Dennis Weaver ... Hank
Steven Hill ... Benjie

Description: After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother's mountain retreat. As time passes the criminals are anxious to move on, but need to rest so Charlie has time to recover. Complicating matters more is Charlie's love for Elizabeth, his bother's wife, with whom he once had an affair. More trouble ensues when it is revealed that the Elizabeth's son was fathered by Charlie, not her husband...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.15 GB, 1989 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 854x462 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 146
Audio : 119 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC, VBR


Unfortunately no subtitles available online for this movie, posters and screenshots included

Edge of doom (1950) - another lesser known film noir from director Mark Robson, starring Farley Granger and Dana Andrews

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 99 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Mark Robson
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042428/

Cast

Dana Andrews ... Father Thomas Roth
Farley Granger ... Martin Lynn
Joan Evans ... Rita Conroy
Robert Keith ... Detect. Lieutenant Mandel
Paul Stewart ... Mr. Craig
Mala Powers ... Julie
Adele Jergens ... Irene
Harold Vermilyea ... Father Kirkman
John Ridgely ... 1st Detective

Description: St. Stephen's is a poor Catholic parish, the neighborhood in which it is located the home of many down-and-outers, who are just trying to survive. One of the more devout of the parishioners was Mrs. Martin Lynn, who just passed away. Her son, Martin Lynn Jr., is a hard working, conscientious young man, who feels the church has done his family no good. Unable to pay for a lavish funeral for his mother which he feels he owes her, unable to convince the church to do so on his behalf, and unforgiving of the fact that the church would not sanction even a burial for his father who committed suicide years ago, Martin, in a fit of violence, kills the seemingly unsympathetic senior parish priest, Father Kirkman, who admitted that he lost touch with his parishioners in his later years. Following the killing, Martin, not wanting to implicate his loving girlfriend Julie in the crime, tries desperately to find anyone else to help him arrange the lavish funeral. As he is denied at every turn, he begins to alienate those around him. The only person who can at least assist and who Martin hasn't alienated is the parish's junior priest, Father Roth. When Father Roth discovers through other means that Martin killed Father Kirkman, Father Roth prays that Martin will do what's best for his immortal soul.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.35 GB, 1989 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 134 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (separate English and Portuguese) posters and screenshots included

A bullet for Joey (1955) - lesser known film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, George Raft and Audrey Totter

Rating 6.0/10
Runtime: 85 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Lewis Allen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047904/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Inspector Raoul Leduc
George Raft ... Joe Victor aka Steiner
Audrey Totter ... Joyce Geary
George Dolenz ... Dr. Carl Macklin
Peter van Eyck ... Eric Hartman
Toni Gerry ... Yvonne Temblay
Bill Bryant ... Jack Allen
John Cliff ... Morrie

Description: Montreal, Canada, sometime in the 50's. The former well-known gangster Joey Victor is fetched from Europe, where he was deported to from USA. His task is to kidnap the nuclear physicist Dr. Macklin and bring him behind the Iron Curtain. Joey reactivates his old gang, including the formerly attractive Joyce. She shall seduce the erotically inexperienced Macklin and lure him out of his closely protected quarters. But the FBI becomes suspicious...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.10 GB, 1845 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 133
Audio : 120 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes movies - The woman in green (1945)

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 68 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Roy William Neill
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038259/

Cast

Basil Rathbone ... Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce ... Dr. Watson
Hillary Brooke ... Lydia
Henry Daniell ... Professor Moriarty
Paul Cavanagh ... Sir George Fenwick
Matthew Boulton ... Inspector Gregson
Eve Amber ... Maude
Frederick Worlock ... Onslow
Coulter Irwin ... Williams

Description: A serial killer appears to be on the loose in London and Sherlock Holmes assists Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard in the investigation. Holmes is brought into the case when Maude Fenwick asks him to investigate her father, Sir George Fenwick, who has been acting very oddly of late. Holmes had seen him in a hotel bar a few nights before with a very attractive and mysterious woman. He traces her to a club for hypnotists and eventually to his archenemy, Professor Moriarty.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 774 MB, 1598 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 217 MB, 448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

The thing from another world (1951) - classic 1950s sci-fi thriller from director Howard Hawks

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 86 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

Cast

Margaret Sheridan ... Nikki
Kenneth Tobey ... Captain Patrick Hendry
Robert Cornthwaite ... Dr. Arthur Carrington
Douglas Spencer ... Scotty
James Young ... Lt. Eddie Dykes
Dewey Martin ... Crew Chief Bob
Robert Nichols ... Lt. Ken 'Mac' MacPherson
William Self ... Corporal Barnes
Eduard Franz ... Dr. Stern

Description: In 1949, in the Officers Club in Anchorage, Alaska, the pilot Captain Patrick "Pat" Hendry is summoned by General Fogarty to fly to a remote outpost to investigate something that has crushed on Earth. Captain Hendry flies with his crew and meets Dr. Arthur Carrington and his team of scientists and they fly to the location. They discover a flying saucer buried in the ice and they use Thermite bombs expecting to release the spacecraft. However, it explodes and is totally destroyed by the bombs. They also find a frozen life form and bring it to the research station. When the creature thaws, it attacks the dogs and loses one arm. Dr. Carrington researches and discovers that it is a vegetable life that reproduces like plants. Captain Hendry believes that the dangerous creature is an invader and decides to find a way to destroy it with his team. But Dr. Carrington believes that the scientific discovery is more important than lives and protects the creature.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.64 GB, 2700 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 118
Audio : 119 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR


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

Wagon master (1950) - lesser known western from director John Ford, starring Ben Johnson

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 86 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Ford
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043117/

Cast

Ben Johnson ... Travis Blue
Joanne Dru ... Denver
Harry Carey Jr. ... Sandy
Ward Bond ... Elder Wiggs
Charles Kemper ... Uncle Shiloh Clegg
Alan Mowbray ... Dr. A. Locksley Hall
Jane Darwell ... Sister Ledyard

Description: As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge a trail across unknown territory and face many hardships along the way. They quickly come across some stranded travelers, a medicine show run by Dr. A. Locksley Hall which includes the attractive Denver. Along the way however, they are also joined by Shiloh Clegg and his murderous clan of robbers and thieves. An encounter with the Navajo leads to an invitation to their camp but after one of the Clegg boys gets a whipping for attacking one of the Navajo women, Uncle Shiloh plans his revenge. It's left to Sandy and Travis to protect the travelers and get them to their destination.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.18 GB, 1950 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 118/62 MB (main/commentary), 192/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/1 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR


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


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Harry Carey Jr, Peter Bogdanovich and John Ford. 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)

Some came running (1958) - classic drama starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 130 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052218/

Cast

Frank Sinatra ... Dave Hirsh
Dean Martin ... Bama Dillert
Shirley MacLaine ... Ginnie Moorehead
Martha Hyer ... Gwen French
Arthur Kennedy ... Frank Hirsh
Nancy Gates ... Edith Barclay
Leora Dana ... Agnes Hirsh
Betty Lou Keim ... Dawn Hirsh
Larry Gates ... Professor Robert Haven French
Steve Peck ... Raymond Lanchak
Connie Gilchrist ... Jane Barclay
Ned Wever ... Smitty

Description: In 1948 Dave Hirsh returns to his home town of Parkman, Indiana. He's left the army and isn't quite sure what he will do for the rest of his life, though he does aspire to be a writer. He's not sure why he's returned home. He doesn't get along with his older brother Frank - who put him in a home after their parents were killed - and his sister-in-law Agnes hates him. He meets up with a professional gambler Bama Dillert and they soon become fast friends. He also has to deal with Ginnie Moorehead, a girl he met in Chicago the night of his departure and she's decided to tag along. He doesn't plan on staying in town for very long until he meets Dawn French a teacher of creative writing at the local college and an ardent admirer of his earlier works. He falls for her but she's not so quick to fall for him. As life in a small town continues to encroach on his style, Dave has a run-in with a Chicago hood who thinks that Ginnie is his girl, leading to tragedy all 'round.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.18 GB, 1295 Kbps, 25 fps, 716x424 ~> 1017x424 (2.4:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 179 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


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

Somebody up there likes me (1956) - boxing drama based on Rocky Graziano's biopic, starring Paul Newman

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Wise
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049778/

Cast

Paul Newman ... Rocky
Pier Angeli ... Norma
Everett Sloane ... Irving Cohen
Eileen Heckart ... Ma Barbella
Sal Mineo ... Romolo
Harold J. Stone ... Nick Barbella
Joseph Buloff ... Benny
Sammy White ... Whitey Bimstein

Description: Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However, he is immediately drafted to the army. But they can't keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.42 GB, 1736 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 853x480 (16:9), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 130
Audio : 156/57 MB (main/commentary), 192/70 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/1 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Serbian, Turkish, Italian, Dutch, 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 Paul Newman, Robert Loggia, director Robert Wise, Martin Scorsese and Richard Schickel. 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)