Synopsis:
Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a pretty but odd young girl named Jennie Appleton appears and strikes up an unusual friendship with Eben.

Portrait of Jennie (1948) -- William Dieterle.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 26mn
Size: 	2.32 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 400 Kbps
BPP: 	0.321
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Commentary by Film Historian Troy Howarth)

https://nitro.download/view/DFBF4E9BCBB4AF9/Portrait_of_Jennie_(1948)_–_William_Dieterle.mkv

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

The post William Dieterle – Portrait of Jennie (1948) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart’s associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented “O’Hara”, whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming involved in Bogart’s machinations are a prim British married couple (Edward Underdown and blonde-wigged Jennifer Jones). As a climax to their many misadventures and double-crosses, the uranium seekers end up facing extermination by an Arab firing squad. The satirical nature of Beat the Devil eluded many moviegoers in 1953, and the film was a failure. The fact that the picture attained cult status in lesser years failed to impress its star Humphrey Bogart, who could only remember that he lost a considerable chunk of his own money when he became involved in the project. Peter Viernick worked on the script on an uncredited basis. Beat the Devil eventually fell into public domain, leading to numerous inferior editions by second and third-tiered labels.

+Commentary with film historians Nick Redman, Julie Kirgo and Lem Dobbs

2.68GB | 1h 33m | 792×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/20783A45B6084ED/Beat.the.Devil.1953.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/dIvXgyLRb8/Beat.the.Devil.1953.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv.html

Language:English
Subtitles:English

The post John Huston – Beat the Devil (1953) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina. Ruby Corey lived with her poor family in the swamps while Boake Tackman lived in a mansion with servants. As long as their friendship stayed within the socially acceptable limits no one objected. In adulthood their friendship becomes a mutual romantic attraction. Ruby wants to marry Boake but he only seems interested in romantic play without commitment. Maybe conscious of his social status or maybe being afraid to offend his snobbish family and conservative hometown folk, he marries a rich girl. Out of revenge Ruby marries Jim Gentry, a recently widowed rich old man to whom many townsfolk and local businesses owe money. When Gentry dies in an accident, the town blames Ruby. A now rich Ruby takes revenge on the town’s folk by calling in their debts and loans. The girl from the swamps has become the town’s biggest nightmare.

1.94GB | 1h 22m | 786×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B57609BD19CCC5F/Ruby_Gentry_(1952)_–_King_Vidor.mkv

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

The post King Vidor – Ruby Gentry (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Screen legend Jennifer Jones (Portrait of Jennie) stars as the young, beguiling Hazel Woodus in 1897 Shropshire, England. More than the people around her, she loves and understands the wild animals of the countryside, especially her pet fox. Whenever she has problems, she turns to the book of spells and charms left to her by her gypsy mother. When dashing local squire Jack Reddin (David Farrar, Hour of Glory) begins to pursue Hazel—despite her marriage to Baptist minister Edward Marston (Cyril Cusack, Fahrenheit 451)—a struggle for her body and soul ensues.

2.58GB | 1h 51mn | 788×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/06DBB641C3D34B9/Gone.to.Earth.1950.576p.Bluray.AAC.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English

The post Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – Gone to Earth (1950) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
The final film completed by Ernst Lubitsch, this zany, zippy comedy of manners, set in England on the cusp of World War II, is one of the worldly-wise director’s most effervescent creations. Jennifer Jones shines in a rare comedic turn as Cluny Brown, an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down—with plenty of help from Adam Belinski (Charles Boyer), an eccentric Continental exile who has fled the Nazis but is still worried about where his next meal is coming from. Sending up British class hierarchy with Lubitsch’s famously light touch, Cluny Brown is a topsy-turvy farce that says nuts to the squirrels and squirrels to the nuts.

1.53GB | 1 h 40 min | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C6E949954968810/Ernst_Lubitsch_-_(1946)_Cluny_Brown.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Ernst Lubitsch – Cluny Brown (1946) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of “a beautiful lady” in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

Extra commentary track by Film Historians Jon Burlingame, Edward Z. Epstein and Donald Spoto is included.

4.18GB | 2 h 37 min | 766×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/E86C094A2246867/The.Song.of.Bernadette.1943.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Henry King – The Song of Bernadette [+commentary] (1943) first appeared on Cinema of the World.