A G-man is sent to prison to befriend a suspected robbery ringleader and then helps him break out to gain his confidence.

The.Get-Away.1941.TVRip.AVC-Guild55(CG).mkv

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From 1945 comes one of the best adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Remarkably we get a dry and witty George Sanders (Addison DeWitt in All About Eve), a 20-year-old Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote), an equally young Donna Reed (The Donna Reed Show), and fabulous Oscar-winning photography mixing black and white with a little splash of color for effect when they show the painting. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a unique fantasy horror film that could easily slip into your collection next to the moody Universal monster classics, but containing more subtlety and wit to write it off as merely a creature feature. The story revolves around a man who sells his soul for eternal youth. He has a painting made that will age instead of him, and all of his sins will be wrought on the image of his visage in oil. He adopts a libertine immoral code, and loses all compassion and anything truly good about being human. Dorian transforms in to a young dashing beautiful monster.

The film follows Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield, King David) in 1886 as he has a portrait painted of himself and wishes to the heavens to sell his soul in exchange for never-ending youth. Somehow Gray’s wish comes true, and his soul ends up in the painting, which will now age instead of him. Dorian is a concert pianist, and he engages in philosophical discussions with Lord Wotton (Sanders) who speaks of beauty as being important for its own sake removed from morality and religion. Dorian begins to test the waters and his friend Wotton’s theories by entering in a cruel and destructive relationship with a vaudeville singer named Sybil Vane (Lansbury). He seduces her, and then says he resents her for falling for his machinations. This crushes the young beauty, and she ends up taking her own life out of devastation. Dorian becomes more and more callous and decadent, and he locks the painting up in his attic. His life begins to spiral down in to living only for the sake of beauty and pleasure, and Gray finds himself a mere shell without anything to keep him in check while the painting turns uglier and uglier. He is beautiful but his life is ugly beyond imagination.

Where Dr. Jekyll turned in to the hideously deformed Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray retains his good looks even though he has no soul. Wilde’s premise is kept intact for the movie translation written and directed by Albert Lewin. The novel’s author was fascinated by the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, but he wanted to apply his own “dandified” spin on the proceedings for his version of a Gothic horror story. Wilde was unabashedly homosexual, and fans of the novel’s homoeroticism may find this 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray lacking in truly scandalous aspects. But the film does get the mood and essence of the story down pat, even if it does have to adhere to the strict moral codes placed on movies of the time. It’s almost a pity the film couldn’t have been made a decade earlier when the film world was allowed to be more kinky. It’s all not nearly as macabre as it could be, but there is a nice idea about “is beauty enough” running through the film to make it interesting and to qualify it as a classic. Ironically the production is so beautiful it doesn’t capture the uglier sides of the novel.

Albert Lewin - (1945) The Picture of Dorian Gray.mkv

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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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Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Gina and Max’s current off again status is due to Max vowing to make a go of his marriage to his loving wife, Carol Poulton, with who he has had a sometimes strained relationship. Gina and Max’s relationship moves into another realm when she threatens to tell Carol of the the affair. That’s why Max is hesitant to divulge the full nature of his relationship to Gina when she is found murdered. He is certain that the murderer is a man named Carliss, who introduced himself to Max earlier as being with Scotland Yard, he assisting the local French authorities in the investigation into Gina’s murder, this before Gina was actually murdered. Carliss seemingly is trying to frame Max for the murder. Max understands more when he learns who Carliss is. Despite the authorities being after him, Max does whatever he can both to clear his name and protect Carol, who he believes is in danger herself.

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Subtitles:Russian (muxed)

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