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Pittsburgh (1942) - Lewis Seiler

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 06 Sep 2011 21:38:52 | Comments : 6
Pittsburgh (1942)

Pittsburgh (1942) - Lewis Seiler
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 050 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 27mn | Size: 1.40 GB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Director: Lewis Seiler | Genre: Drama

“The three stars of Universal's The Spoilers - Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne and Randolph Scott - were reunited for the pageantlike adventure yarn Pittsburgh. This is a saga of the steel industry, with longtime buddies Pittsburgh Markham (Wayne) and Cash Evans (Scott) rising from the ranks of miners to run their own foundry. Ruthlessly devoted to his work, Pittsburgh eventually has a falling out with Cash and also jeopardizes his romantic relationship with beautiful Josie Winters (Dietrich). Thanks to his duplicitous business practices, Pittsburgh loses both Josie and his steel mill; but when America enters WW II, he redeems himself by signing on as a common workman with Cash's still-thriving organization.”
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Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 30 Aug 2011 22:30:44 | Comments : 1
Seven Sinners (1940)

Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 050 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 23mn | Size: 1.32 GB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Director: Tay Garnett | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

“Cabaret singer Bijou (Marlene Dietrich) drifts from one Indonesian island to another due to her talent for inciting riots among the men at the cafés where she sings. Raging fisticuffs at the Blue Devil Café get her deported to Boni-Komba. The little island is a port for the U.S. Navy and a refuge for lowlifes, criminals, and ne'er-do-wells. Bijou lands on her feet with a job singing at the Seven Sinners Café. She also falls head over heels for a strapping navy lieutenant named Dan Brent (Wayne). There's trouble in low-rent paradise when Bijou's knife-throwing ex-flame Antro (Oskar Homolka) develops a jealous streak, and Lt. Brent's superiors find the idea of a naval officer falling for a rabble-rousing cabaret singer distasteful”
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Rene Clair - The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 23 Aug 2011 16:56:27 | Comments : 3
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

René Clair - The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 100 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 16mn | Size: 1.23 GB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Director: René Clair | Genres: Comedy, Romance

“Sultry screen siren Marlene Dietrich plays a dual role in the light romantic comedy The Flame of New Orleans (1941). As Claire Ledoux, Dietrich is a European adventuress during the 1840s. Leaving behind a colorful past, she comes to the shores of America in search of a rich husband and a life of comfort. Once she secures this in the form of wealthy fiance Roland Young, her past catches up with her, and she is forced to masquerade as a fictitious "bad seed" cousin to get herself off the hook. Along the way, however, she is unexpectedly sidetracked by the affections of a rugged sea captain played by Bruce Cabot.”

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William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 21 Aug 2011 08:26:29 | Comments : 1
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 100 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German | Runtime: 2h 43mn | Size: 2.63 GB
Sourced from MGM (2004) | Director: William Wyler | Genres: Drama, Romance, War

“Homer thinks maybe they should stop at his Uncle Butch's saloon for a drink before they get home. "You're home now, kid," the older man Al tells him. Three military veterans have just returned to their hometown of Boone City, somewhere in the Midwest, and each in his own way is dreading his approaching reunion. Al's dialogue brings down the curtain on the apprehensive first act of William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946). Seen more than six decades later, it feels surprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then studiously avoided. After the war years of patriotism and heroism in the movies, this was a sobering look at the problems veterans faced when they returned home.”
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Josef von Sternberg - The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 20 Aug 2011 22:09:13 | Comments : 0
The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Josef von Sternberg - The Scarlet Empress (1934)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 050 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 40mn | Size: 1.59 GB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Director: Josef von Sternberg | Genres: Drama, History
Extras: The World of Josef von Sternberg (1967) - The Criterion Collection #109 | Runtime: 20mn | Size: 382 MB

“ Filmmaker-svengali Josef von Sternberg escalates his obsession with screen legend Marlene Dietrich in this lavish depiction of sex and deceit in the eighteenth-century Russian court. A self-proclaimed “relentless excursion into style,” the pair’s sixth collaboration follows the exploits of Princess Sophia (Dietrich) as she evolves from trembling innocent to cunning sexual libertine Catherine the Great. With operatic melodrama, flamboyant visuals, and a cast of thousands, this ornate spectacle represents the apex of cinematic pageantry by Hollywood’s master of artifice.”
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Josef von Sternberg - The Blue Angel (1930) aka Der blaue Engel

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 19 Aug 2011 20:01:45 | Comments : 0
The Blue Angel (1930)

Josef von Sternberg - The Blue Angel (1930) aka Der blaue Engel
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 1 733 Kbps | 636 x 572 (1.186) at 25.000 fps | AAC at 206 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Restored English version | Runtime: 1h 40mn | 1.37 GiB
Sourced: Film Prestige (Russia, 2004) | Genres: Drama, Musical

“This version is almost the exact same as the German version, but of course in English. That means it is still wonderful, but with all of the "Unrath" puns removed. The only reason to just stick with the German is because most of the language in this film is either still German, or hard to understand due to th actors' thick accents, Marlene, surprisingly, is perfectly accent less despite not knowing any English. Fans of the German version should still just check it out as a historical novelty and see how similar and/or different the film is.”
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Josef von Sternberg - Der blaue Engel (1930) aka The Blue Angel

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 19 Aug 2011 12:52:24 | Comments : 3
Der blaue Engel (1930)

Josef von Sternberg - Der blaue Engel (1930) aka The Blue Angel
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 1 733 Kbps | 624 x 512 (1.330) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 224 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Restored German version + Extras | Subtitles: English, French | Runtime: 1h 42mn + 21 min | 1.56 GiB + 407 MiB
German Audio Commentary by Werner Sudendorf | sourced: BMG Video (2001, Germany) | Genres: Drama, Musical

“"The Blue Angel" will always have a place in film history as the movie that brought Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. At the time it was made, at the birth of the sound era in 1929, it was seen as a vehicle for Emil Jannings, the German actor who had just won the first Academy Award for best actor. Dietrich's overnight stardom inspired distributors to recut the film, ending it with one of her songs instead of his pathetic closing moments, and this restored version shows the entire film for the first time in years.”
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Jack Conway - Libeled Lady (1936)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 18 Aug 2011 18:33:51 | Comments : 0
Libeled Lady (1936)

Jack Conway - Libeled Lady (1936)
DVD-Rip | AVI XVID at 1 599 Kbps | 704 x 528 (1.333) at 23.976 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French | Runtime: 1h 38mn | 1.24 GiB
Director: Jack Conway | Genres: Comedy, Romance

“Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, and William Powell star in this crackling screwball comedy about a cut-throat newspaper editor's scheme to prevent a libel suit that ends up exploding in everybody's face. Tracy plays Warren Haggerty, the managing editor of a newspaper that mistakenly prints a story declaring the rich Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) has stolen away another woman's husband. Connie retaliates by suing the paper for $5 million. This happens right before Warren is about to marry his fiancee Gladys (Jean Harlow). As he has done several times in the past, Warren delays the wedding in order to stop the libel suit.. ”
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Rouben Mamoulian - The Song Of Songs (1933)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 30 Jul 2011 03:50:17 | Comments : 4
The Song Of Songs (1933)

Rouben Mamoulian - The Song Of Songs (1933)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 010 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 26mn | 1.34 GiB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Genres: Drama, Romance

“Song of Songs was the first Marlene Dietrich vehicle not directed by Josef von Sternberg. The star plays a zaftig German peasant girl who becomes a nude model. She falls in love with a struggling sculptor, but her ambitions get the better of her and she marries a hedonistic baron. Leaving her husband, Dietrich sinks further down the social scale by becoming a cabaret singer. She is eventually reunited with the sculptor, but not before smashing the nude statue based on her voluptuous frame, thereby symbolically purging her checkered past..”
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Josef von Sternberg - The Devil Is A Woman (1935)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 30 Jul 2011 03:48:54 | Comments : 2
The Devil Is A Woman (1935)

Josef von Sternberg - The Devil Is A Woman (1935)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 049 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 16mn | 1.21 GiB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy

“Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this historical melodrama, which was a notorious and controversial box-office flop in its day. Antonio Galvan, a young military officer, meets a mysterious and alluring woman named Concha Perez and soon falls under her seductive spell. Antonio excitedly confesses his love for Concha to his friend Don Pasqual, an older and higher-ranking officer. Pasqual is horrified when he learns of Antonio's infatuation; years ago, he met Concha, and it was the start of a long and disastrous relationship in which the cold-hearted woman would repeatedly lure him into her romantic web..”
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Josef von Sternberg - Dishonored (1931)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 30 Jul 2011 03:48:41 | Comments : 1
Dishonored (1931)

Josef von Sternberg - Dishonored (1931)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 037 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English & French | Runtime: 1h 27mn | 1.37 GiB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Genres: Drama, Music, War

“Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise. Marlene Dietrich delivers a subtle and witty performance as a Viennese prostitute who offers her services as a spy during WWI. As "Agent X-27" our heroine proves invaluable to her superiors, seducing and betraying enemy officers with the greatest of ease. But when she falls in love with Russian spy Lt. Kranau (Victor McLaglen), she permits him to escape her clutches, and as a consequence is sentenced to be executed..”
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Josef von Sternberg - Morocco (1930)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 30 Jul 2011 03:48:27 | Comments : 2
Morocco (1930)

Josef von Sternberg - Morocco (1930)
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 000 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English & French | Runtime: 1h 28mn | 1.35 GiB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Genres: Drama, Romance

“Like so many campaigners before him, GARY COOPER joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper meets café entertainer Marlene Dietrich (making her American film debut). A woman with a very checkered past, Dietrich toys with the callow Cooper, but eventually falls hopelessly in love with him, even to the extent of throwing over wealthy Adolphe Menjou. The now-famous final image of Morocco finds la Dietrich, decked out in her cabaret finery and wearing high heels, heading after Cooper's regiment across the desert with the rest of the "camp followers".. ”
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Renato Castellani - Un colpo di pistola (1942) aka A Pistol Shot

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 18 Jul 2011 15:34:41 | Comments : 0
Un colpo di pistola (1942)

Renato Castellani - Un colpo di pistola (1942) aka A Pistol Shot
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 082 Kbps | 704 x 576 (1.333) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: Italian | Subtitles: Italian | Runtime: 1h 27mn | 1.40 GiB
Director: Renato Castellani | Genre: Drama

“"Un colpo di pistola" is the first film directed by Renato Castellani. It was adapted from the short story "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin and was presented at the 1942 Venice Film Festival.. Colonel Andrea Anickoff challenged his best friend, Sergio Drutzky, to a duel when he found him courting the young woman, Mascia, he, too, was in love with. Sergio could not bring himself to kill his friend. He fired only after taking the bullet out of his pistol and when came Andrea's turn to fire, Sergio was eating cherries waiting for his opponent to shoot..”
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Margarethe von Trotta - Die bleierne Zeit (1981) aka Marianne and Juliane

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 18 Jul 2011 02:32:07 | Comments : 3
Die bleierne Zeit (1981)

Margarethe von Trotta - Die bleierne Zeit (1981) aka Marianne and Juliane
DVD-Rip | Xvid at 1 712 Kbps | 720 x 432 (1.667) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: German | Subtitles: English | Runtime: 1h 42mn | 1.37 GiB
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Genres: Drama, History

“Also known as Die Bleierne Zeit (The German Sisters), Marianne and Julienne is an extension of themes explored by director Margarethe von Trotta in her earlier Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness. Once more, the principal characters are two well-bred sisters, outwardly polar opposites of one another, but birds of a feather in many ways. Marianne (Barbara Sukowa) is a radical terrorist, while Juliane (Jutta Lampe) edits a mainstream feminist magazine. The film explores how the same ideological words can be harnessed for both order and chaos, depending on how far an activist is willing to go. Von Trotta based her screenplay for Marianne and Juliane on the real-life Enslein Sisters. ”
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Renato Castellani - Romeo and Juliet (1954)

Posted By : amlo01 | Date : 03 Jul 2011 13:24:29 | Comments : 0
Romeo and Juliet (1954)

Romeo and Juliet (1954) - Renato Castellani
BD-Rip | MKV Xvid at 1 957 Kbps | 720 x 544 (1.324) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: Spanish | Runtime: 2h 14mn | 2.06 GiB
Adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy | Director: Renato Castellani | Genres: Drama, Romance

“Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy. Cast as the "star cross'd lovers" this time out are Laurence Harvey, who's quite good, and Susan Shentall, who isn't. Whether or not Shentall would have improved with experience is a moot point, since she retired from the screen to get married soon afterward. Director Renato Castellani was showered with praise for his decision to lens the story on location in Italy. Less popular was his decision to delete several of Shakespeare's more famous passages, arguing that they held up the progress of the story (sometimes whole scenes, including the one with the apothecary, were chopped out).”
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