Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.

A.Midsummer.Night's.Dream1935.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 23 min
Size: 	1.99 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x480 ~> 720x540
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 666 kb/s
BPP: 	0.201
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch Vorbis @ 96.0 kb/s (Commentary by film historian Scott MacQueen)

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

The post William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Shannon Kelley writes:
The powers and fascinations of director John Ford and playwright Eugene O’Neill are happily met in this 1940 feature dramatizing the lives of men who serve as crew members aboard commercial freighters. Like O’Neill, Ford nursed a lifelong obsession with sailing and the sea, and had spent his early years in Portland, Maine, amid the maritime culture that this picture describes. Adapted and updated by screenwriter Dudley Nichols (Ford’s frequent collaborator) from four of O’Neill’s early plays set aboard the fictional “SS Glencairn,” the film recounts the experiences of the ship’s crew while transporting ammunition from the West Indies to England during World War II. The story thus presents four mini-dramas, each with its own catharsis, while neatly making general points about the specialized society in which these men live—disregarded by callous superiors, consigned to repeated voyages for lack of better work, and developing codes of honor and friendships that sustain them through the severe physical and psychological hardships of their lives.

Nichols and Ford expertly martial the unconventional, four-part structure to create recurrent emotional surges, akin to the ebb and flow of great waves, as endurance and loyalty are tested again and again. The various anecdotes underscore the pressures that so often lead to bouts of drinking and brawling (tantamount to bonding), and just as often, to the decision to ship out on yet another grueling voyage. Richard Hageman’s music score underlines the same “ebb and flow” movement, adroitly counterposing the spirited shanty “Blow the Man Down” with the plaintive “Harbor Lights,” contrasting the urge to adventure with the longing for home.

Ford makes ingenious use of an admirable group of character actors, whose personification of the tight-knit crew collapses the space between stars and supporting players, taking full advantage of sterling dialogue and weighty dramatic opportunities. Particularly impressive are Thomas Mitchell as swaggering “Driscoll,” a fractured character in the best O’Neill tradition, and Mildred Natwick in her first film role as a Cockney prostitute in a harbor saloon.

A penetrating portrait of the dispossessed, the film was not a financial success, but showcases numerous talents to wonderful advantage, and as an incidental fact, was purportedly greatly admired by Eugene O’Neill, who was said to have screened the film privately numerous times

2.20GB | 1 h 41 min | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/34FA9874D4854B7/The.Long.Voyage.Home.1940.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post John Ford – The Long Voyage Home (1940) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
What will a father do to give his son everything?

Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr (in an Academy Award-nominated performance*). When the boy is five, his father (Tracy) commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocketlike career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife’s love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream. Based on the play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley. *1949: Best Actress.

— WAC case synopsis

1.48GB | 1h 52mn | 720×540 | mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post George Cukor – Edward, My Son (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Also filmed by Dupont in German (Menschen im Käfig) and French (Le cap perdu) versions with different casts.

1.29GB | 1 h 25 min | 687×576 | mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/24DBE845F754828/Cape.Forlorn.1931.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Ewald André Dupont – Cape Forlorn AKA The Love Storm (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A 1927 British silent sports film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter. It is one of Hitchcock’s nine surviving silent films. The Ring is Hitchcock’s only original screenplay although he worked extensively alongside other writers throughout his career.

The film was made by at Elstree Studios by the newly-established British International Pictures who emerged as one of the two British major studios during the late 1920s and began hiring leading directors from Britain and abroad. It was Hitchcock’s first film for the company, after joining from Gainsborough Pictures. It was also the first ever film to be released by the company.

* The film, while widely considered a minor work[citation needed], features photography tricks Hitchcock would use again years later in films like The Man Who Knew Too Much, most notably during the climactic boxing sequences.
– Wikipedia

The film was a major critical success on its release. However, when it went on general release it was considered a box office failure.

https://nitro.download/view/997024889FADB4D/The_Ring_1927_720p_WEB-DL_AAC2.0_H.264-brento.mkv

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:None

The post Alfred Hitchcock – The Ring (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.