A college fraternity prank goes wrong and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, it’s graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation. Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.

Terror.Train.1980.1080p.BluRay.XR-KULT.UNCUT.FLAC.x264-MaG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 36 min
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https://nitro.download/view/52D3AA7EB13DF30/Terror.Train.1980.1080p.BluRay.XR-KULT.UNCUT.FLAC.x264-MaG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English SDH

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A unique film for its time, Anna’s Sin is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello set in Rome of the early 1950s. In particular, Anna’s Sin stages an interracial relationship at the moment of the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, Pan-Africanism and anti-colonial struggle. Originally debuting in Italy in 1952, Anna’s Sin was released in the U.S. in 1954 and later re-released in 1961 as an interracial exploitation film. For many years, Anna’s Sin was an out-of-circulation, “lost” film, with The Wisconsin Historical Society Archives in Madison, Wisconsin holding a rare English-dubbed version. In 2017, the UCLA Film & Television Archives digitized a 35mm print of the film held by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and are pleased to organize a virtual screening of this rarely seen work.

Anna’s Sin offers a glimpse of Italy of the 1950s, then in the early period of its postwar “economic boom.” After the devastation of World War II, Italy, with assistance from the U.S. Marshall Plan, entered a period of enormous and rapid economic recovery. The Italy shown in the film is distinct from its representation in neorealist films of the period. Rather than a destitute country struggling with poverty and devastation, Anna’s Sin displays a vibrant Italian youth culture, influenced by American popular culture, and particularly by jazz music. In Anna’s Sin, Italy is also a site of African American expatriatism as exemplified by novelist and screenwriter William Demby and translator Ben Johnson’s roles.

The film was written and produced by its lead actor Anna Vita, an Italian star of fotoromanzos (photo romance novels). Vita conceived Anna’s Sin as a starring vehicle for Canada Lee (Cry, the Beloved Country, 1951), after meeting the actor and activist. Following Lee’s untimely death in 1952 prior to production, Ben Johnson took up the lead role of John Ruthford, an African American Shakespearean actor who arrives in Rome to stage Othello; Vita performs the title role of Anna Curti, who Ruthford casts as Desdemona. Ruthford’s character is a reference to performer and activist Paul Robeson, who in 1930 became the first African American to perform Othello in London since the 19th century. The story follows John and Anna’s burgeoning romance as they stage Othello, with key scenes from the play appearing within the film. Their relationship is threatened by Anna’s scheming guardian, Alberto (Paul Muller), who wishes to marry Anna for her inheritance. The narrative is also complicated by Ruthford’s hidden past, one tied to Sam Hudson (William Demby), an expatriate who holds the key to Ruthford’s freedom.

In the realm of Othello film adaptations, Anna’s Sin is contemporaneous with Orson Welles’ The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (1951), in which Welles performs the lead, perpetuating a long tradition of white actors performing the role in blackface. Not only is Anna’s Sin notable for its progressive racial politics, it eschews and critiques blackface performance through the casting of a Black American actor as Othello. As demonstrated in an Ebony feature interview of the period, Vita wrote Anna’s Sin with the intent of making a political comment upon the times, stating, “I wanted to say something for the Negro and against prejudice.” Ultimately, Anna’s Sin speaks to mid-20th century transnational circuits of civil rights activism, an expanse that included Hollywood and Rome’s “Hollywood on the Tiber.”

Anna’s Sin (Camillo Mastrocinque, 1953).mkv

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Language(s):Dubbed English
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At a mountain ski resort, some two hundred passengers board the train for the return to Jackson City. At the controls is veteran engineer Holly Gibson, and as the train proceeds downhill, Gibson discovers that the main brakes have frozen….

700MB | 1h 10m | 512×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/CA2783D287D6B82/Runaway!.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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A college fraternity prank goes wrong and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, it’s graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation. Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.

2.14GB | 1h 37m | 1024×556 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/22FCCE3BC4EE73F/Terror.Train.1980.x264.576p.BDRip-RLYEH.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Plot synopsis:
A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande must deal with murderous raiding Apaches, his son who’s a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.

Rio Grande is a 1950 film and the third installment of John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy”, following Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). John Wayne stars in all three films, as Captain Kirby Yorke (York) in Fort Apache, then as Capt. of Cavalry Nathan Cutting Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and finally as a promoted Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke (York) in Rio Grande.

Ford wanted to make The Quiet Man first, but the man pulling the purse strings at Republic Pictures, Herbert Yates, insisted that Ford make Rio Grande first, using the same combination of Wayne and Maureen O’Hara; Yates didn’t feel that the script of The Quiet Man was that good, and wanted Rio Grande out first to pay for The Quiet Man. (To Yates’s surprise The Quiet Man, on its eventual release in 1952, would become Republic’s number one film and become a favorite of Ford/Wayne fans.)

2.66GB | 1h 45m | 786×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F09BE7658DC92FE/Rio.Grande.1950.BDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv
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https://tezfiles.com/file/018d2059100b3/Rio.Grande.1950.BDRip.x264-FuFu.mp4

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (Muxed)

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As a monetary rater of movies, you can tell that I have leanings. My film studies background is rooted in films noir and gritty westerns and at heart, The Getaway is a pulp crime drama with a southwestern flavor. Of course I love it; there’s a heist, a duel, a shootout, a con and every other genre staple that I’ve written about before (not to mention it played a pivotal role in my graduating thesis). It’s true that these details ingratiate the film to me, but it’s also true that The Getaway is a fantastic film. It’s a Steve McQueen movie, after all! That alone makes it a classic and worth watching.

However, it’s the direction by Sam Peckinpah that elevates the film to cinematic extraordinariness, a personal rating of 8.5/10 instead of a seven. In this instance, my film appreciation outranks my boyish genre loves and McQueen man crush. Peckinpah is a master. I’ve stated before and I will state again that Robert Altman is my favorite director, but if I’m ever put in a position where I’m directing a film on my own, it will be Sam Peckinpah that I will mimic most in style. His filmography is one masterpiece followed by another and in my opinion, The Getaway is one of his best.

That’s where my self-proclaimed proficiency in film fandom is either debunked or respectfully ironic. To this day, Sam Peckinpah is considered a brilliant director. However, at the time, critics considered Sam Peckinpah to be a sell out for directing The Getaway. The dark horse, indie, underground director… doing a Steve McQueen movie? It’s the equivalent of Martin Scorsese signing on to direct a Vin Diesel sequel. In other words, it lowered a few opinions of the man and it might lower a few opinions of me to say otherwise.

And it’s true. Peckinpah did, for lack of a better phrase, sell out. He was struggling financially and intentionally set out to make a film that would yield a high profit. By definition, he sold out. However, other connotations of the term do not apply. Peckinpah did not go through the motions. In fact, he pulled out all the stops. Maybe The Getaway wasn’t his magnum opus, but it was his chance to prove to mainstream America that he was more than just an art house filmmaker of gratuitous violence, and that’s exactly what Peckinpah did. He may not have thought so, but I think he nailed it. He created a masterpiece that could be loved by all and I believe, in doing so, he created something worthy of the top Peckinpah DVD shelf alongside the likes of The Wild Bunch.
Written by Zachary Mann

2.06GB | 2h 02m | 1024×440 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/28576FA984F7D4F/Getaway.mkv

Language(s):English,Spanish
Subtitles:English (+HoH), French, German (+HoH), Italian (+HoH), Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian & Swedish

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Synopsis
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger’s bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Dillinger.1973.720p.BluRay.x264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 47 min
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https://nitro.download/view/707E8728AB81A0D/Dillinger.1973.720p.BluRay.x264-KG.mkv

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

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