Synopsis:
This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about “the enemy” and the “rights and wrongs” of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.

2.48GB | 2 h 13 min | 788×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/858AF09E56EA043/All.Quiet.on.the.Western.Front.1930.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Synopsis:
Pre-code melodrama starring John Gilbert as Jack Thomas, rich, penthouse-dwelling playboy with a brand new fiancee named Marjorie (Leila Hyams) and his own English “gentleman’s gentleman” (just given orders to burn his gallery of photos and phone numbers). Called to meet his guardian “Papa Mario”, Jack is informed he has a brother named Frank and a father who has been shot and is calling for his long-lost son from his deathbed. This is all news to Jack who didn’t know about this family at all (he thought he was an orphan). Arriving at the rundown Hotel Ritzi, Jack finds out the whole truth – that his father and brother are bootleggers/gangsters, that he is actually an Italian, and his real name’s not Jack, it’s Giacomo! Okey dokey. Frank (Louis Wolheim) is a (very) rough-faced, tough talker who forces Jack to take the rap for some stolen emeralds given to Jack by the dying dad. Unfortunately Jack had already gifted the emeralds to Marjorie, who finding out he’s a “thief”, writes him a “Dear John” letter and leaves town. So – Jack decides to join the racket with his brother, then ends up saving his brother’s life from a rival gang. Now the rivals are out to get the man who shot one of their own, and it all comes to brew at a “Peace Banquet” at the hotel.”

1.40GB | 1h 33mn | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/59E45ED897CCBE8/Gentleman’s_Fate_(1931)_–_Mervyn_LeRoy.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:Russian (muxed)

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