On a 4th of July weekend, three barnstorming skydivers arrive to perform in a small Kansas town. They are hosted by the youngest member Webson’s (Wilson) aunt, the unhappily married Elizabeth (Kerr). While Browdy (Hackman) one-nights with a topless dancer, a doomed romance flares up between Elizabeth and Rettig (Lancaster). Tension builds, and explodes with a spectacular skydiving show.

The.Gypsy.Moths.1969.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C777F53261E6C52/The.Gypsy.Moths.1969.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Subtitles:English, English SDH

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A 1979 war film about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa. The screenplay was by Cy Endfield, from his book, and Anthony Story. The film was directed by Douglas Hickox. The score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

Zulu Dawn is a prequel to Zulu, released in 1964, which depicts the historical Battle of Rorke’s Drift later the same day, and was written and co-directed by Cy Endfield.

Zulu Dawn.1979.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/7AC7B2242F1E978/Zulu_Dawn.1979.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):English, Zulu
Subtitles:English hardcoded for Zulu

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PLOT: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.

Brute.Force.1947.Jules.Dassin.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264.mkv

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#2:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 100 kb/s (Commentary from 2007 featuring film-noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini)

https://nitro.download/view/2574F4DAE964329/Brute.Force.1947.Jules.Dassin.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264.mkv

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Subtitles:English, English [SDH], French

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Apache was based on Paul I. Wellman’s novel Broncho Apache, which in turn was inspired by a true story. Burt Lancaster plays Massai, a lieutenant of the great Apache warrior Geronimo (here depicted as an old man, played by Monte Blue). Though his tribe has signed surrender terms with the conquering whites, Massai refuses to do so. He escapes from a prison train and conducts a one-man war against the white intruders-and against some of his own people. Along the way, he claims Nalinle (Jean Peters), whom he previously regarded as a traitor to his cause, as his wife. John McIntire plays famed Indian scout Al Sieber, who-in this film, if not in real life-is sympathetic to the Indians’ plight and Massai’s single-purposed cause. The real-life counterpart to Massai was killed by Sieber’s minions after agreeing to call off the hostilies; United Artists objected to this, forcing producer/star Burt Lancaster to shoot an unconvincingly happy ending.

Apache.1954.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/A0125A51B78F8FB/Apache.1954.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Burt Lancaster’s megawatt grin and acrobatic athleticism light up this grandly entertaining swashbuckler. He tumbles, vaults, and swings his way through the role of a Robin Hood-esque rogue who executes dazzling feats of derring-do as he and his rough-and-ready band of mountain men launch a rebellion against the occupying German gentry in 12th-century Italy. The filmmaker’s powers as an aesthetician are on full display in the exquisite Technicolor compositions, including one particularly striking moment of Tourneurian shadow play: a climactic duel in the dark wrought in finely shaded chiaroscuro.

The.Flame.and.the.Arrow.1950.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/98FE93A66B11A3C/The.Flame.and.the.Arrow.1950.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Subtitles:English,Italian

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The Unforgiven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Huston. It stars Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford and Lillian Gish. The story is based upon a novel by Alan Le May.The film, uncommonly for its time, spotlights the issue of racism against Native Americans and people believed to have Native American blood in the Old West. The movie is also known for problems behind the scenes. John Huston often said this was his least satisfying movie.

The Zacharys are a thriving and respected family on the Texas frontier. Father Will Zachary was killed by Kiowa Indians, leaving his oldest son Ben (Burt Lancaster) as the head of the family. Both Ben and his mother Mattilda (Lillian Gish) are very protective of the Zachary’s adopted daughter, Rachel (Audrey Hepburn), while her other brothers, Cash (Audie Murphy) and Andy (Doug McClure), treat her as they would any sister. The family is supported by their closest neighbor, Zeb Rawlins (Charles Bickford), whose shy son Charlie (Albert Salmi) wants to marry Rachel. Ben, long aware that she is not actually his sister, loves Rachel and is reluctant…

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https://nitro.download/view/54478E1C8B037C8/the_Unforgiven.1960.BDRip-AVC_msltel.mkv
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English,Russian

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One of the few bona fide counter-cultural films to be produced by a major studio, The Swimmer is a sun-scorched and surreal suburban satire that boasts a fine performance from Burt Lancaster (Castle Keep, Buffalo Bill and the Indians) as Ned Merrill, the all-American man who one day determines to swim home to his Connecticut mansion via a series of pools in his neighbourhood.

Directed by Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife) imbues Eleanor Perry’s (David and Lisa, Ladybug Ladybug) adaptation of John Cheever’s short story with stunning expressionistic flourishes, creating a true masterpiece of cinema.

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John Cheever’s “misery in suburbia” short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry’s The Swimmer, adapted for the screen by Perry’s wife Eleanor, is a rare, and for the most part successful, attempt at offering a Cheever story in feature-length form. Dressed only in swimming trunks throughout the film, Burt Lancaster plays a wealthy, middle-aged advertising man, embarked on a long and revelatory journey through suburban Connecticut. Lancaster slowly makes his way to his split-level home by travelling from house to house, and from swimming pool to swimming pool. At each stop, Lancaster comes face to face with an incident in his past. Informing Kim Hunter that he once harbored a secret love for her, Lancaster is mildly upset by Hunter’s indifference. Elderly Cornelia Otis Skinner is incensed at Lancaster’s intrusion in her backyard and orders him to leave. At the next home, Lancaster tries to seduce the nubile Janet Landgard, who’d once baby-sat for his daughters, but she runs away in horror. And so it goes: as each subsequent suburbanite peels off his self-protective veneer, Lancaster grows more and more disillusioned with what he thought was his ideal lifestyle. The more intensely painful episode is the confrontation between Lancaster and ex-mistress Janice Rule (this scene was directed, without credit, by Sydney Pollack). Thoroughly defeated, the all-but-naked Lancaster laboriously makes his way through the Connecticut woods in a blinding rainstorm, desperately seeking out his own home where he fully expects his “loving” wife and daughters to greet him. Not this time. Dismissed as too self-consciously “arty” at the time of its release, The Swimmer’s reputation increased over the decades following its release thanks to constant late-night TV exposure. The film represents the first movie work of 22-year-old composer Marvin Hamlisch.

+Commentary with Frank Perry biographer Justin Bozung

2.27GB | 1h 35m | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/04C77BE07AF2D9E/The.Swimmer.1968.BDRIP.4K.Powerhouse.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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