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JIM BOWIE…a man with his name on a knife – and a woman with a weapon all her own!
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse’s murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

Director: Gordon Douglas
Writers: James R. Webb, Paul Wellman
Cast: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia
Producer: Henry Blanke
Cinematography: John F. Seitz
Music: Max Steiner
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 50mn

The Iron Mistress.1952.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 49 min
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Gordon Douglas – The Iron Mistress (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In a remote region of post-independence India, the love of a blind British woman pricks the conscience of an arms dealer.

Thunder.in.the.East.1952.BDRIP.576P.X264.AC3.AFKI.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 37 min
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#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Commentary by Film Historian Lee Gambin and Costume Historian Elissa Rose)

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Charles Vidor – Thunder in the East (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ladd is as hardboiled as ever in this minor film noir classic. He is a tough reporter in Chicago (though he is never shown working at a typewriter) who first appears at a run-down south side rooming house, attempting to talk a runaway girl into returning home. In the next room he finds the emaciated but beautiful body of a girl who has died of tuberculosis (Reed). Before the police arrive Ladd pockets her address book and then systematically begins to look up the various venal people in her life who tell her story in flashbacks. There is Kroeger, a vicious gangster; Muir, a nervous banker; Freeman, an invalid writer; Lees, an addled boxer; Havoc, a call girl; Hervey, a gangster’s moll; and, in a startling performance, Strudwick, as a melancholy mobster. Each tells a tale about Reed as Ladd reconstructs her life, encountering several murders and blackmail victims along the way, finally shooting it out with culprit Kroeger, killing him and being wounded himself. Ladd is so enraptured with the dead girl (not unlike Dana Andrews in LAURA) that he leaves his hospital bed to attend her funeral, where he burns her address book to protect her memory, a gallant beau geste. Seeing this, Kennedy, portraying the dead girl’s brother, tells Ladd that he knew her best of all. Based on a roughhouse 1933 novel, it’s a sad, sometimes morose film, but it’s told with great pace and power, most of it steel gray, full of soot and grime and struggle, like Chicago itself, where the exterior shots were done. Ladd is superb as the callous reporter with a soft heart for Reed’s memory. (This was Ladd and Reed’s second film together after BEYOND GLORY, although they do not appear in any scene as a twosome.) CHICAGO DEADLINE is typical of the hard-hitting, well-made crime films that were hallmarks of the late 1940s, and Ladd is the epitome of the shadowy hero, the man from the other side of the tracks who didn’t give a damn … except that he did. (Remade as “Fame Is the Name of the Game” for TV.)

Chicago Deadline.1949.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 26 min
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#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s
#2:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode)

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Lewis Allen – Chicago Deadline (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

During India’s first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve’s love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.

Thunder.in.the.East.1952.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.x264-tobias.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 37mn
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Charles Vidor – Thunder in the East (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
When ex-cop Steve Rollins is released from San Quentin after five years, his only thoughts are of revenge on the men who framed him for manslaughter. Back in San Francisco, his quest for the truth brings him up against ruthless waterfront gang boss Victor Amato.

2.71GB | 1 h 38 min | 1024×402 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B26680803E48910/Hell.on.Frisco.Bay.1955.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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

The post Frank Tuttle – Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens’ Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) is impressed by the way Shane handles himself when facing down the hostile minions of land baron Emile Meyer, though he has trouble placing his complete trust in the stranger, as his Marion (Jean Arthur) is attracted to Shane in spite of herself, and his son Joey (Brandon De Wilde) flat-out idolizes Shane. When Meyer is unable to drive off the homesteaders by sheer brute strength, he engages the services of black-clad, wholly evil hired gun Jack Wilson (Jack Palance)…

2.83GB | 1 h 58 min | 792×576 | mkv

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Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post George Stevens – Shane (1953) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Dennis Schwartz writes:
John Farrow’s Calcutta is a fast-paced old-fashioned adventure yarn, shot entirely in Paramount’s backlot. Seton Miller does the screenplay. It’s an entertaining potboiler, though a minor work … Ladd gives an icy action-hero performance as someone who revels in his disdain for women as untrustworthy companions. By Ladd’s politically incorrect moves, he takes on the characteristics of the film noir protagonist–which gives this programmer its energy. Ladd quotes an ancient Hindu saying ‘Man who trust woman walk on duckweed over pond,’ which tells us all we want to know about how he has stayed alive for so long while in the company of dangerous women, ones like Virginia, while Bill so easily succumbed to the beauty of the femme fatale

1.58GB | 1 h 22 min | 702×526 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8E5BDADE58E3EFA/Calcutta.1947.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post John Farrow – Calcutta (1947) first appeared on Cinema of the World.