Plot:
The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn’t Live Here Any More. French-Canadian girl Simone Simon leases a Washington DC apartment from Marine William Terry. Since the Nation’s Capital is overcrowded (wartime, don’t you know), Simon must put up with a steady parade of Terry’s old cronies and girlfriends, all of whom have keys to the apartment. She also becomes the romantic bone of contention between Terry and his sailor pal James Ellison. The last half of the film is dominated by Robert Mitchum as a Chief Petty Officer, who wants to rent the apartment for himself and his wife.

1.07GB | 1h 15mn | 640×480 | avi

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
The story is pleasent fluff where Franz Lederer has to marry a rich woman in order to be chief executive of a big firm. He pretends to be in love Käthe von Nagy’s bar girl and just guess how this story could end.

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Clifford Pyncheon’s (Vincent Price) father, Gerald (Gilbert Emery), decides that in his dying days, the family’s mansion must be sold to clear their debts. Gerald also believes it will remove the family of a curse — a result of their many misdeeds over the years that allowed their once-prominent lifestyle. However, Gerald’s other son, Jaffrey (George Sanders), has different ideas as to what should be done with the property, and frames Clifford for murder in an attempt to keep the mansion.

2.19GB | 1h 28mn | 788×576 | mkv

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

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Synopsis:
Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

Review:
The screen edition of the Kern-Hammerstein musical play is a skillfully photographed work which includes among its ballads, songs and snatches some of the most distinguished melodies of this cinema season. From the Music Hall’s screen and also the throats of John Boles and Gloria Swanson, “Music in the Air” sends out in a high-hearted cavalcade all the gay, tender and superbly romantic lyrics which warmed the flinty heart of Broadway back in the Winter of ’32. The reporter, after listening to “I’ve Told Every Little Star,” finds his typewriter keys jogging along to the rhythms of the music. Then there are “One More Dance,” “The Song Is You,” “We Belong Together” and “There’s a Hill Beyond a Hill,” which is the particular favorite of this columnar ear.Mr. Kern’s matchless songs are enough to insure “Music in the Air” a position among the superior musical pictures. The photoplay as a whole is always a step or two behind its score, but since it manages to avoid a good many pitfalls of the operettish type of entertainment, perhaps we should be grateful for its numerous virtues. For one thing it confines its spectacle effects to the village capers of light-hearted Hungarian lads and maidens. Although the narrative is pretty kittenish in its burlesque of the artistic temperament, it is a definite improvement over most of its recent predecessors, and it is actively pleasant even when it fails to be properly robust in its comedy.As a setting for his partner’s music, Mr. Hammerstein is telling about the kindly music-master of Ebendorf who composes “I’ve Told Every Little Star,” and then drives off to Munich to see his old college friend, now a celebrated music publisher. His pretty daughter and the young village schoolmaster, who love each other with a pure Theocritean devotion, go along with him to see the sights. When the rural visitors reach their destination they find themselves in the midst of a temperamental quarrel between the lyric writer and the prima donna of an impending operetta. The quarrelsome artistes promptly pair off with the rural sweethearts in order to annoy each other. The writer promises the lass that he will put her in a show. The prima donna causes the boy to lose his head and almost persuades him to run off to Venice with her. After all the comic interchange of high pressure temperament, the country visitors are glad to crawl back to Ebendorf and the innocent diversions of smalltime life.Joe May, the German director of “Music in the Air,” tells this musical comedy story in a spirited style and he has succeeded in pacing the narrative briskly enough to avoid the prolonged periods of aridity to which the musical films have accustomed us. Miss Swanson makes an agreeable return to the screen as the prima donna. The years have not scarred her loveliness, and in addition she possesses a pleasing voice and a gift for light comedy. June Lang, in her screen début, reveals a charming face and manner as the guileless country maid. John Boles owns the most cultivated voice in the troupe, and he also is able to dash through the comic episodes with considerable success. It is in the comparatively minor rôles, though, that “Music in the Air” proves to be most personable. There are the delightful Al Shean in the music-master part, which he played on Broadway, Joseph Cawthorn as the crotchety orchestra conductor, Reginald Owen as the music publisher, and Roger Imhof as the good burgomaster of Ebendorf. “Music in the Air” is an agreeable addition to the holiday entertainment lists.The symphony orchestra at the Music Hall offers Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italienne.” Leon Leonidoff’s stage pageant, “Whim-wham,” is in three scenes: “Wings of Love,” “Rhythms in Melody” and “My Guiding Star.”
— Andre Sennwald (New York Times).

867MB | 1h 23mn | 636×480 | mkv

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Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
The movie begins with the discovery of a yoghi who, after being brought back to life by a maharajah, promises to do anything his saviour’s heart desires. Bizarrely, what the nobleman wants is for the yoghi to transport himself to the west and bring back an architect capable of building a magnificent mausoleum for his princess.

Herbert Rowland, although slightly perturbed by the sudden appearance of the strange mystic, jumps at the chance, even though the job comes with the condition that he must leave that moment without telling his fiancee where he’s going.

Once in India, Rowland learns the shocking truth – the princess is not dead. Instead, the maharajah intends to imprison her in the mausoleum as punishment for her infidelity.

Meanwhile, Rowland’s fiancee Irene decides to track down her man, little realising the dramatic fate in store for all involved in the sorry tale.
from On-magazine film-reviews

Das.indische.Grabmal.erster.Teil.Die.Sendung.des.Yoghi.1921.576p.BluRay.x264.ac3.avis.pbt.mkv

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Language(s):Silent with German inter-titles
Subtitles:English srt muxed

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The jealous & vindictive Rajah of Bengal continues to manipulate the fates of his three English captives in his mad scheme to punish his faithless wife.

THE Indian TOMB: THE TIGER OF BENGAL is a perfect example of the grand German cinema epics created during the silent era. Berlin film mogul Joe May turned the full resources of his modern 50-acre Maytown studio near Berlin over to the production, using 300 workmen to create the lavish sets necessary to tell such an exotic tale.

May contracted with authoress Thea von Harbou to write the script for THE Indian TOMB, based on her 1917 novella, assigning young Fritz Lang as her co-writer. Lang, who married von Harbou after starting the writing project, desired to direct the films himself, but he was deemed too inexperienced for such an important project by the financiers and May enthusiastically became the director. Furious, Lang left May’s employ; it would be more than 35 years before he was able to direct his own Indian TOMB films. (After their divorce, von Harbou became Nazi Germany’s official screenwriter; because of his Jewish ancestry, Lang felt it wisest to settle in Los Angeles.)

THE Indian TOMB: THE TIGER OF BENGAL was an artistic triumph, presenting wonderful vistas & sequences to delight the viewer’s imagination. The eerie Yard of the Lepers, for instance, with extras sporting real deformities, offers moments of terror & suspense as chilling as anything Hollywood had to offer. Further scenes – the Tiger Arena, the Suspension Bridge – add intricate strokes to the broad canvas which is THE Indian TOMB.

Conrad Veidt is mesmerizing as the troubled Rajah. With large, hypnotic eyes set in a bony face, he seems forever contemplating terrible memories. Veidt gives a measured, stylized performance, moving very slowly and deliberately, almost somnambulistic in his actions. The scene where he suddenly appears masquerading as an androgynous temple deity underscores the subtle sexual ambiguity of his nuanced portrayal.

Today, Conrad Veidt is remembered in America almost entirely for his villainous Major Strasser in CASABLANCA. This is a shame, as there was so much more to his life. Cultured & sophisticated, Veidt was considered to be one of the best (and one of the most handsome) actors in Germany, and he was a tremendous matinée idol in the 1920’s. Later, he became courageously outspoken in his anti-Nazi sentiments and he found it safer to relocate to England and eventually to America. In Hollywood, Veidt continued to denounce the evils of the Third Reich. Tragically, he was not to live long enough to see the inevitable defeat of Hitler. Completing only one further film after CASABLANCA, Conrad Veidt died of a heart attack while playing golf on April 3, 1943. He was 50 years old.

Equally intriguing is Bernhard Goetzke in the tiny role of the mysterious, implacable Yogi. Although his role is unfortunately much smaller than in Part One, he is still a worthy henchman to the Rajah. Olaf Fønss as the architect & Mia May (the director’s wife) as his courageous fiancée, present a refreshingly middle-aged view of romantic love. Their defiance of the Rajah & desperate flight to escape gives the film its most exciting sequences. (Joe & Mia May would also flee to Hollywood, where, after the end of his directing career, they would eventually operate a popular German restaurant.)

The story was originally presented as a filmed diptych. THE Indian TOMB: THE MISSION OF THE YOGI (1921) precedes THE Indian TOMB: THE TIGER OF BENGAL (1921). A box office disappointment in Germany & a failure in America, the films quickly passed into obscurity. However, down through the decades their reputations scored a renaissance. After much painstaking effort both films were archivally restored to their original luster. They have been released together on home video & DVD.

If only for the striking performance of Conrad Veidt the films would be significant. But their epic proportions & high adventure set in a remarkable culture are a window into the very best which German cinema had to offer in the 1920’s.

Das.indische.Grabmal.zweiter.Teil.Der.Tiger.von.Eschnapur.1921.576p.BluRay.x264.ac3.avis.pbt.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 50 min
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Language(s):Silent with German inter-titles
Subtitles:English srt muxed

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