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When the wicked Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer) kills Andre Moreau’s (Stewart Granger) best friend in a sword fighting duel and steals his love, Aline (Janet Leigh), the Frenchman vows revenge. While hiding out with a theatrical troupe and posing as the clown Scaramouche, Moreau works with the Marquis’ very own fencing instructor to hone his skill with the sword. Once he feels he’s up to task, he returns to the city to claim his revenge and win back Aline.

Scaramouche1952.mkv

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Synopsis: A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

Act.of.Violence.1948.Fred.Zinnemann.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 22 min
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English [SDH], French

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Synopsis:
War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a frightened Enley suddenly leaves for a convention in L.A., Parkson is close behind…

Act of Violence (1948) -- Fred Zinnemann.mkv

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Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

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Nothing like a love triangle to spice up Christmas, right? Don Hartman’s Holiday Affair delivers that and…well, not much else, but it’s still an enjoyable romantic comedy that’s fallen well under the radar during the last 70 years. At the center or if all is young widow Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh); she lives with her precocious son Timmy (Gordon Gebert), works as a comparison shopper, and has been dating lawyer Carl Davis (Wendell Corey) for two years. After a mistake almost costs Connie her job, she’s saved by clerk Steve Mason (Robert Mitchum)… that is, until he’s promptly fired for not calling her out. Nonetheless, their resulting afternoon is spent together and she takes a liking to the smooth- talking war veteran, who also leaves quite an impression on little Timmy. Carl, of course, is skeptical.

The fallout from their brief encounter leads to all sorts of polite but simmering comments from Carl. He proposes marriage to Connie and she finally accepts, with both actions clearly stemming from Steve’s entrance: he’s got to claim his territory, and she feels guilty for flirting with another man. Steve doesn’t give up; instead, he delivers an expensive Christmas gift for Tommy — a train set the young boy has wanted for months — which seems innocent enough, but Carl takes it as another way to buy their affection. The difference is that unlike her well-to-do fiancée, Connie’s mystery man barely has enough money to eat. She’s now torn between the aloof kindness of Steve’s gesture, the more stable but rigid prospect of domestic life with Carl, and her son, who needs her now more than ever.
It’s a dependable recipe for soapy drama — at least more than expected for a film categorized as a romantic comedy — and on that front, Holiday Affair delivers the goods. This is largely due to strong and well-cast characters: everyone is perfectly suited to their role, and even young Gordon Gebert steals many a scene as young Timmy. Several stand-alone moments also leave quite an impression, none more so than the painfully awkward Christmas dinner where Steve lays his feelings bare in front of the entire Ennis family… even the parents of Connie’s late husband. Yet the film’s much more scattered second half spins its wheels an awful lot, with more than a few late encounters stemming from fragile coincidences and silly or mawkish fare that wouldn’t feel out of place in a wooden Hallmark drama. Holiday Affair rallies in the home stretch for a decent send-off but, as a whole, it feels more like a loose collection of good-to-great scenes stitched together by a meager plot that struggles to maintain momentum even at just 87 minutes.

From one perspective, Holiday Affair is obviously an attempt to recapture the magic of then-recent Mitchum hits like Rachel and the Stranger (also featuring a love triangle) and, of course, 1947’s smoldering Out of the Past. And while it doesn’t quite have the impact or staying power of either of those films, Holiday Affair is still worth (re)discovering on Warner Archive’s new Blu-ray, which serves up yet another top-level 1080p transfer, lossless audio, and a few light but appreciated extras. If nothing else, it’s a solid second-team pick for your Christmas movie rotation.

Holiday Affair.1949.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C3C29825CCBFBF9/Holiday_Affair.1949.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Subtitles:English

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In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for “protection” and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated. (from IMDb)

5.01GB | 1h 40mn | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2B3BA17385D7C07/Boardwalk.1979.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (HoH)

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Tony Curtis will amaze and astound you with one of his best performances as Harry Houdini, “the man of 10,000 tricks.” Houdini has nothing up its sleeve, but the charismatic Curtis and Janet Leigh (“Hollywood’s Most Exciting Young Lovers,” proclaims the film’s original trailer, the sole bonus feature on this disc), as Houdini’s wife, Bess, levitate this conventional, albeit enormously entertaining 1953 biopic that follows the legendary magician and escape artist from his days as a sideshow attraction to international stardom. Houdini dedicates his life to giving audiences “bigger and bigger thrills,” and the film’s best scenes recreate Houdini’s act and death-defying escapes, including a harrowing plunge into the frozen Detroit River while locked in a trunk. Houdini’s fate is well-known, and while the film plays loose with the facts, it does conjure up an eerie foreboding by the time he takes the stage for his final, ill-fated Halloween performance. After Houdini’s first strait-jacket escape, an elderly magician urges him, “It’s isn’t a trick. Drop it. It will make you famous, but it will kill you”. Houdini is old fashioned movie magic that’s no trick and all treat.

2.80GB | 1h 45m | 786×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F259FBBAF51D76C/Houdini.1953.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
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The post George Marshall – Houdini (1953) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Howard Kemp is a bounty hunter who’s been after killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. Along the way, Kemp is forced to take on a couple of partners, an old prospector named Jesse Tate and a dishonorably discharged Union soldier, Roy Anderson. When they learn that Vandergroat has a $5000 reward on his head, greed starts to take the better of them. Vandergroat takes every advantage of the situation sowing doubt between the two men at every opportunity finally convincing one of them to help him escape.

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https://nitro.download/view/896F3D7B17CC897/The_Naked_Spur_(1953)_–_Anthony_Mann.mkv
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish (muxed), English (srt)

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