Gradually picking up dramatic steam as it moves through its 2 1/2 hour running time, this gangster film is loosely based on the career of one of Naples’ most sadistic crime bosses, Raffaele Cutolo. Here, the mobster (played by Ben Gazzara) is simply called “The Professor” and is first introduced in prison where he landed after murdering a stranger who was flirting with his sister. From prison he begins to move up the Camorra ladder when he recruits inmates to join him in bringing down the leading crime boss and has his sister pay off their families in return. Without ever leaving prison “The Professor” succeeds in replacing the ruling “don” but far from resting on his laurels he starts to wipe out his enemies and anyone whose loyalty might be in question. Still hampered by his incarceration, he finally escapes and joins forces with the Cosa Nostra and even begins to put major politicians in his pocket. It seems like nothing can stop him until a lone and much-benighted police chief (Leo Gullotta) enters the picture.
Eleanor Mannikka
New York Times

The Professor.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 44mn
Size: 	2.14 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x400 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 700 Kbps
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Audio
#1:  	Italian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 160 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/BB29CD8EBDCE914/The_Professor.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
Legendary actor Ben Gazzara made his feature film debut in The Strange One, recreating his Broadway role in Calder Willingham’s gripping “End as a Man”. Gazzara stars as Cadet Sgt. Jocko De Paris, a sadomasochistic bully in a Southern military academy who uses his magnetism and the school’s own military code to manipulate his fellow cadets and officers. When he engineers the expulsion of a hated rival, his reign of terror begins to unravel.

The film features a solid cast drawn from The Actors Studio in New York, including Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman, George Peppard (also in his film debut) and Larry Gates, and is directed by Jack Garfein and scripted by Willingham, based on his novel. It was censored in its original 1957 theatrical release, for its homoerotic elements and homosexual subtext, but is presented here restored and uncut/uncensored for the first time on Blu-ray.

Jack Garfein - (1957) The Strange One.mkv

General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
Size: 3.18 GiB
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Codec: x264
Resolution: 1024x554 
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 4 159 kb/s
BPP: 0.306
Audio
#1: English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Mono)
#2: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary with critic Nick Pinkerton)

https://nitro.download/view/7028B2DDE92C460/Jack_Garfein_-_(1957)_The_Strange_One.mkv

https://fikper.com/Wp5u8foE1X/Jack_Garfein_-_(1957)_The_Strange_One.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Plot
Helen keeps on receiving phone calls from a child, who claims being her nephew Michael – but Michael died 15 years ago…

746MB | 1h 27m | 560×416 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/FDAAF26EC2DCAFC/Shattered_Silence.When_Michael_Calls.1972.DVDRip.XviD.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Summary:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

Aboard the R/V Triton, the Project Neptune team is doing oceanographic research. Director Andrews (Walter Pidgeon) is trying to keep the research going in spite of opposition from Foundation Head Sheppard. Below on the ocean floor, in the Sealab, the team led by Hamilton is about to return to the surface when the Sealab is ripped loose from it’s moorings and sent careening into a trench. Trapped too deep for divers, the only chance is rescue by a new US Navy mini-sub, piloted by the arrogant Cdr Blake (Ben Gazzara) USN. Blake, Chief Diver MacKay (Ernest Borgnine), Diver Cousins & Dr. Jansen (Yvette Mimieux) (Hamilton’s fiance) dive in the mini sub to attempt the rescue of the trapped Hamilton & crew.

+Commentary with Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and Film Historian Jason Pichonsky

1.87GB | 1h 38m | 854×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2BE7865B65B2377/The.Neptune.Factor.1973.480p.BluRay.FLAC2.0-oo0.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/731EAFC6081D3AA/The.Neptune.Factor.1973.480p.BluRay.FLAC2.0-oo0.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/185DB39658DA85E/The.Neptune.Factor.1973.480p.BluRay.FLAC2.0-oo0.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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This is a compilation film consisting exclusivley of archive footage. Rather not the usual sort of film you get from Tinto Brass.

Trivia from IMDB:
“This film was scheduled for the second New York Film Festival (1964), but was withheld by authorities in Italy and thus deprived of a showing. In 1971, the film was re-titled and released in the USA as “Thermidor” (after the 11th month of the French Revolutionary calendar), with a new English narration, and with some attempt at updating made by its American distributor.”

Wikipedia:
“Ça ira – Il fiume della rivolta, also released internationally as Thermidor, is an Italian collage film of documentary film and drama film genres directed by Tinto Brass. Taking its name from the popular revolutionary song Ça ira, the film is a critical narrative of 20th century revolutions from 1900 to 1962 and their legacy.

The first film directed by Brass, Ça ira – Il fiume della rivolta was produced in 1962 but it could be premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 1964, to see theatrical release in December.”

This is a very bad copy, mainly as a means to get english subtitles.

329MB | 1h 24m | 486×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9114D56A4A4DE84/1964_-_Ca_Ira_-_Il_Fiume_Della_Rivolta_(Tinto_Brass).mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:None

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A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him.

2.13GB | 1h 14m | 770×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/4A55B08B4E4A838/Pursuit.1972.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/E06AA68FA7544C0/Pursuit.1972.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/E12856A836BAC75/Pursuit.1972.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/2A4B8BA3AC86A07/Pursuit.1972.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part3.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Quote:
The killing of a Chinese Bookie was released in 1976 after what Cassavetes
described as a very rushed editing period. The film was a commercial failure
and was pulled from the theaters after seven days. Two years later after the
completion of Opening Night, Cassavets re-edited the film-cutting nearly
thirty minutes-and re-released it in the version presented here.

True to Cassavetes’ form, the 108-minute version is not just a simple edit of the 135-minute version. The order of several scenes has been changed, there are different edits of a few scenes, and there are a few segments unique to the 108-minute version. The bulk of the cutting in the 1978 version removed many of the nightclub routines that were in the 1976 version.

2.86GB | 1h 48m | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D277DDD0ED079EA/The.Killing.of.a.Chinese.Bookie.1976.(1978.cut).576p.BDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English HOH

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