Synopsis:
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver’s, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation, and this is not helped by the more straightforward enticements of Mrs Weaver.

3.11GB | 2h 14mn | 954×576 | mkv

<https://nitro.download/view/343F6B10CA221BF/This_Sporting_Life_(1963)_–_Lindsay_Anderson.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Synopsis:
Professor David Pollock is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi, who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi’s mistress, Yasmin Azir is a beautiful mystery who becomes intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but she repeatedly double crosses him in one escapade after another, he can’t decide on who she is working for. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the message and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister.

3.06GB | 1h 45mn | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/69BB3E41034518B/Arabesque.1966.576p.BDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French (muxed)

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The adventures and the exploits of notorious English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard in 1720s London.

1.46GB | 1:52:21 | 704×544 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/63AACE490C91F4E/Where%27sJack.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/2E34FF300320690/Where%27sJack.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post James Clavell – Where’s Jack? (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

From VLN:

A play, written by Dennis Potter, which deals with the turningpoint in science when Charles Darwin released his theories from the point of view of a religious scientist who can’t bare the thought that the Genesis isn’t to be taken literally. Not as famous as his Musical mini-series “The Singing Detective” and “Pennies From Heaven”, not as notorious as his banned play “Brimstone & Treacle” Potter writes a very quiet and heartbreaking play about a boy who watches his father’s life work being destroyed.

Synopsis
Although credited with being “Based on ‘Father and Son’ by Edmund Gosse, Where Adam Stood is, in Potter’s own words, “in no sense an adaptation. … I only took a few pages from it.” (Fuller 1993:52)

Parallel to the Gosse memoir of his father, though, the play deals simultaneously with the relationship between a fundamentalist father and his young, motherless son, as well as, on a much broader canvas, with the collision between fundamentalist religion and the beginnings of a challenging scientific paradigm which appeared to contradict it – Darwin’s theory of natural selection and evolution…. FULL PLOT

Max Harris as Edmund Gosse

Alan Badel as Phillip Gosse

https://nitro.download/view/4FC63B4C6F4BB82/Where_Adam_Stood_(Potter).avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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