Synopsis:
During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier ,Paul,takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents .His sergeant has given him one hour.He meets his mother in the church and learns that his fiancee does not live with her anymore.She’s working in a tavern for soldiers where the owner,Auguste ,woos her.The former love does not want to see Paul anymore because he never wrote to her since he left for war.In fact,it’s Paul mother who has concealed the messages:she has turned her out of the house because she does not want a girl in state custody to be her daughter-in-law .Auguste is jealous and wants the Gendarmes to arrest Paul as a deserter.After another bombing ,Auguste is buried beneath the ruins of his cafe.Paul gets on the moving train in the nick of time.Marie will wait for him.

Three Hours (1939) -- Leonide Moguy.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 24mn
Size: 	2.10 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 100 Kbps
BPP: 	0.284
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps
#2:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Commentary for selected scenes)

https://nitro.download/view/8F717B497B3EBBC/Three_Hours_(1939)_–_Leonide_Moguy.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Russian (muxed)

The post Léonide Moguy – Je t’attendrai AKA Three Hours (1939) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot:
This film is an adaptation of the historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.

The work is non-fictional in nature, in that the main character іs based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not аs exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol’s later fiction. This story can be understood in the context of the Romantic nationalism movement in literature, which developed around a historical ethnic culture which meets the Romantic ideal.

Tarass_Boulba.avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 26mn
Size:	1.03 GiB
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Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	768x576
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 512 kb/s
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2.0ch MP3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/5DAE207A3DF4BBB/Tarass_Boulba.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Alexis Granowsky – Tarass Boulba (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus, unaware that the skeletons that he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is her next target.

Cauldron.of.Blood.1970.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 39 min
Size: 	2.31 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.212
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#1:  	English 1.0ch FLAC @ 327 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/1DF1B1DA89A8099/Cauldron.of.Blood.1970.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

The post Santos Alcocer & Edward Mann – El coleccionista de cadáveres AKA Cauldron of Blood (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDB user review:
Jacques De Baroncelli was a prolific director ,active from the silent age (1916)up to post-war years (“Rocambole” 1947).”La Duchesse De Langeais”(1942) is considered his best work.

This one is a comedy.The beginning might remind some users of a famous scene of the all-time classic “it’s a wonderful life” -which had still to be made in 1938-: a young man ,weary of life ,wants to throw himself into the river ;but a young girl does it at the very moment he is about to act.He saves her and a “guardian angel” welcomes him ,in the shape of a tramp ,played by the always wonderful Michel Simon.Nothing magic,nothing religious ,like in Capra’s beloved work.Simply the two young people decides to live under the stars ,like their mate .The chick (Meg Lemonnier)is a wealthy banker’s daughter and the boy (Jean ¨-Pierre Aumont) a poor artist ,but he is handsome whereas all the men the rich dad wanted his heir to marry were graybeards.

Dad gets out of his way to find back his precious darling;but gangsters get wind of the disappearance and demand a ransom.This is a pleasant cops and robbers comedy in which everyone ,the bad guys and the good ones all wind up in a court .

belle étoile.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	1.46 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC

https://nitro.download/view/6A16168F6BDA62D/belle_etoile.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/13C985561AF6DD5/belle_etoile.en.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jacques de Baroncelli – Belle Etoile (1938) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it’s paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979. -Letterboxd

Quote:
The third of ABC’s miniseries offerings, The French Atlantic Affair was an expensive but pulpish all-star version of the same-named Ernest Lehmann novel. Chad Everett essays the nominal leading role as Robbins-esque novelist Harold Columbine, one of dozens of wealthy, well-dressed passengers on a luxury ocean liner. Columbine’s earlier, sympathetic articles on cult leader Craig Dunleavy (Telly Savalas) may well prove to be life-savers when Dunleavy and his henchmen take over the liner and hold its 3,000-plus celebrity passengers for a 70-million-dollar ransom (that translates to 13 tons of solid gold). The script contrives to include a lavish costume ball wherein most of the younger actresses appear in extremely revealing costumes. Although title designer Phil Norman won an Emmy award for his efforts, viewers and critics were generally cool to the charms of The French Atlantic Affair when the three-part melodrama aired on November 15, 16, and 18, 1979 — probably because the miniseries’ melodramatic convolutions were dwarfed by the real-life hostage drama then unfolding in Iran. -TvGuide

Episode 1
Part 1 of a three-part miniseries about the hijacking of a luxury liner by cultists who demand a $70-million ransom.

Episode 2
The murder of 12 passengers sparks desperate attempts to save the hijacked ocean liner.

Episode 3
A sophisticated computer, timed explosives and an unexpected double-cross figure into the conclusion.

4.49GB | 4h 52m | 718×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6A9204D765BF3B4/The_French_Atlantic_Affair.E01.1979.DVDRIP.x264_-TDR.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/BC8A674B903D9C7/The_French_Atlantic_Affair.E02.1979.DVDRIP.x264_-TDR.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6CD46AD26BAED76/The_French_Atlantic_Affair.E03.1979.DVDRIP.x264_-TDR.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post Douglas Heyes – The French Atlantic Affair (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis: “A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.”
– IMDb

2.66GB | 1h 38m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B8D63190582D3B6/Drole.de.drame.1937.BDRip.576p.x264-FuFu.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Marcel Carné – Drôle de drame AKA Bizarre, bizarre (1937) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In Zola’s Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she’s Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She’s an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count’s impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims. She bankrupts him, arranges the debauching of his wife, and seduces his son on his wedding day. What else can she accomplish before she leaves Paris airborne?

2.55GB | 1h 32m | 1024×556 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A3154A6CBEE169A/Nana.1983.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Dan Wolman – Nana (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.