AMG Overview:
by Hal Erickson
MGM’s Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse were loaned to Universal for the Technicolor period piece Mark of the Renegade. Set in 19th-century California, the film stars Montalban as Marcos, in league with a band of pirates. Marcos falls into the hands of Don Pedro Garcia (Gilbert Roland), a despot who hopes to become dictator of California. Planning to force the cooperation of benevolent politico Jose De Vasquez (Antonio Moreno), Garcia orders Marcos to court De Vasquez’ comely daughter Anita (Cyd Charisse). It soon develops that Marcos is not the criminal he appears to be, and that he is dedicated to the vanquishing of the evil Garcia. Somehow, Mark of the Renegade finds an excuse for Cyd Charisse to perform a bewitching dance number.

704MB | 1h 16m | 608×436 | avi

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:Spanish hard subbed

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IMDB:
In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.

1.59GB | 1h 39m | 704×304 | mkv

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Language:English,Spanish,Italian
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
Scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) revisits On the Town (1949), but with a satirical, revisionist bite. In this send-up of musical and post-war optimism, the dreams of Army buddies Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Michael Kidd all fall apart, and their ten-year reunion is a “frost”; Dailey’s bitter song “Situation-wise” takes aim at the stultifying effect of the quintessentially 1950s life of an advertising executive. Even though the trio finally bonds over a disastrous TV appearance, Fair Weather takes further aim at television’s plastic insincerity and technical poverty. The film’s slightly anxious putdowns of television are underlined by its own imaginative, almost competitive use of CinemaScope, particularly in the trio’s energetic, un-pan-and-scannable trash can ballet, and the use of triple split screens and masking to visualize the friends’ alienation. Even the musical joy emanating from the garbage can number and Kelly’s impressive roller skate dance down a New York street cannot quite smooth over the underlying bitterness in It’s Always Fair Weather, turning it into one of the more intriguing productions from MGM’s storied Freed Unit. — Lucia Bozzola

1.57GB | 1h 41m | 1024×400 | mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/7D93705A037D5FE/Stanley_Donen_-_(1955)_It’s_Always_Fair_Weather.part1.rar
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:

In 1952, many “outdoors” adventure films would be shot on the studio back-lot, with fake-looking backgrounds and interior sets masquerading as exteriors. The Wild North benefits greatly from the fact that much of it was shot on authentic locations (the American state of Idaho standing in for northern Canada). The film also benefits from a clutch of strong leading performances from Stewart Granger and Wendell Corey, plus the ravishing Cyd Charisse (cast – some might say miscast – as a native Indian). The whole film is smartly presented by Andrew Marton, whose last film prior to this was another outdoor adventure with Stewart Granger, the 1950 version of King Solomon’s Mines.

Wise, handsome and resourceful fur-trapper Jules Vincent (Stewart Granger) is accused of a killing, and an inexperienced Mountie named Pedley (Wendell Corey) is the man who must bring him in. Vincent knows the rugged wilderness like the back of his hand, so he heads off into the snowy wastelands to hide from his pursuer. Pedley is determined to prove that he is suited to the dangerous Mountie’s work for which he has signed up, so he chases his quarry into the frozen wilds regardless of the risk to his life. After a long and arduous chase, Pedley finds himself lost in the middle of nowhere, totally exhausted and half-mad after his hair-raising journey. As winter closes in, it looks like the Mountie is facing certain death… but during their cat-and-mouse chase Vincent has grown to respect his pursuer. As a mark of this respect, Vincent helps Pedley to survive the winter, after which the mismatched pair make their way towards civilization.

MGM used to be able to knock out these stirring adventure flicks in their sleep, and this one is a pretty entertaining example of their output. Granger and Corey share a good on-screen chemistry, while director Marton successfully makes the scenery against which their adventures occur look suitably wild and beautiful. Within its 97 minute running time, the film is very fast-paced and crammed with incident. Amongst the more thrilling segments, Granger and Corey find themselves in one sequence attacked by a marauding wolf pack. Looking at the film nowadays, it has an old-fashioned style about it that viewers of a certain age and taste might not appreciate. And there have been so many films set in barren, far-flung corners of the world that some of us might no longer find the icy plains of Canada as fascinating as we once did. But, on the whole, The Wild North is a highly enjoyable chase adventure, worth watching for its nostalgic pleasures and its strong performances. As a wise man once said, they don’t make ’em like this any more….

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:Spanish

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Synopsis:
Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realized that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide to get a better reputation. But mob king Rico Angelo *insists* that he continues his services…

Review:
This Nicholas Ray (“Knock on Any Door”/”On Dangerous Ground”) film noir is set in Prohibition Chicago. Ray does wonders with George Wells’ slight script through his masterful use of the camera to evoke the characters’ alienation and vulnerability, and by also including exotic dance numbers and diverting costumes he creates some stunning visuals that have an eye-catching surreal look.

Thomas Farrell (Taylor) walks with a limp and is a mob lawyer, representing Rico Angelo’s (Cobb) 1930s Chicago gang. Farrell meets nightclub dancer and party girl Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) at a celebration Rico throws for his recent court victory, and the lawyer gets hot watching her sexy dance in the penthouse. After taking her home and finding that her roommate committed suicide, Farrell consoles Vicki. This leads to romance, as these two wounded souls who have prostituted themselves to survive find a new happiness together as soulmates.

Rico has Farrell lawyer for a mobster named Cookie. Farrell insists this is his last case he’ll do for the mob, which comes on the urgings of Vicki that he make a clean break and go legit. But Cookie jumps bail. The prosecutor (Kent Smith) arrests Farrell for bribing a juror and when he won’t rat out the mob, the prosecutor plays dirty and gets word out on the street that Farrell spilled his guts. Farrell panics, worried Rico will either get him or Vicki, and decides to work with the prosecutor. It leads to Vicki being kidnapped by Rico and threatened with disfigurement for Farrell’s betrayal. But it all ends on an optimistic note, as the hurt couple are given a new lease on life.

The film’s most amusing scene has Rico shoot up a portrait of Jean Harlow after learning about her marriage.

It’s a honey of a film, never mind the superficial flaws.

— Ozus’ World Movie Reviews [Dennis Schwartz]

2.15GB | 1h 38m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/20F89C8A9005E07/Party.Girl.1958.576p.BluRay.AAC.2.0.x264-KG.mkv

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

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“In Sight and Sound’s 2002 poll of the ten best films ever made, one musical made the list: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Without denying that film’s considerable charm, a musical released a year later (which failed to receive a single vote in Sight and Sound’s survey) may be worthier of similar hyperbolic citations: The Band Wagon. The films share several points of contact: both are backstage musicals built around songbook catalogues and produced for MGM by Arthur Freed; both have witty screenplays by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; and both feature important roles for Cyd Charisse. One may also see both films as primary examples of what André Bazin called the “genius” of the Hollywood system, in which great films are produced less through a single auteur than through a group of talented individuals working collectively with the sophisticated technical resources of a major studio while simultaneously drawing upon the rich traditions and forms of American popular culture.”
Joe McElhaney – Senses of Cinema

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French subtitles:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/fr/subtitles/3641746/the-band-wagon-fr

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

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