This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a restaurateur who has decreed that his seven daughters must marry in order of age — the oldest one first. Kathryn Grayson isn’t the oldest, but she has the sweetest singing voice, and it is she who bags the first husband (Van Heflin). For the record, the remaining six sisters are played by Marsha Hunt, Frances Rafferty, Cecilia Parker, Peggy Moran, Dorothy Morris and Frances Raeburn. Seven Sweethearts was produced by Joe Pasternak, who’d been doing much the same material when in charge of Universal’s Deanna Durbin vehicles. ~ Hal Erickson

Note: this is NOT set in the early 1900s. I think Hal needs to watch a bit more closely, if he watches at all.

1.46GB | 1h 37m | 720×480 | mkv

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Police detective Mary Ryan is given an assignment to break up a gang of jewel thieves and fences. She, using an alias as a convict, is placed in the cell with a suspected member of the gang. Upon release she becomes a gang member but the gang leader is suspicious of her.

0.99GB | 1h 07mn | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E19318E1916C128/Mary.Ryan.Detective.1949.DVDRip.x264-FUFU.mkv

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Synopsis:
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He’s taken the rap for Rick, who owes him $50 Grand. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, knowing that Joe will be caught escaping and be shot or locked away forever. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than he’s supposed to, and we are posed with two very important questions: Is Joe really the cold and heartless criminal he appears to be, or is there a heart of gold under that gritty exterior? And does Joe belong with the tough, street-wise Pat, or with the prim, moralizing Ann?

2.01GB | 1 h 18 min | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/AE1A6E2C9EAF1BD/Raw.Deal.1948.576p.BluRay.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/46C8A69350FBEB6/Raw.Deal.1948.576p.BluRay.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/841A966B59FC78B/Raw.Deal.1948.576p.BluRay.x264.part3.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Synopsis:
In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in this drama. After the war he goes back to his hometown on the German-Polish border to his old teaching job. Time passes and he becomes increasingly cynical and bitter; he then finds himself increasingly drawn to dark, oppressive ideologies that cause his fiancee to abandon him. He then rapes a female student and finds himself thrown out of his village. It is not long before he joins the Nazi party where he quickly rises in the ranks. By the time he returns to his village, he has become a terrifying Nazi commandant.

2.23GB | 1 h 25 min | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/ADBA8A338E0CF9E/None.Shall.Escape.1944.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Synopsis:
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy–one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted–and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.

Review:
ANNAPOLIS SALUTE is a short and sweet 65-minute film about Bill Martin (Ellison), a new cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy. He falls in love with Julia (Hunt), the sister of his classmate (Arthur Lake); unfortunately another classmate (Van Heflin) is also taken with Julia, creating conflict between the men, but she’s only got eyes for Bill.

The path to true love isn’t smooth, especially when a drunken young woman (Ann Hovey) has a car wreck with Bill’s cap in her car, which gets him in trouble with the academy; Bill and Julia also face pressure from Bill’s proud father (Harry Carey Sr.) not to get too serious too fast, given how many years it will be before Bill is free to wed.

Ellison, who had spent the previous couple of years appearing in a number of Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, is appealing as an honorable young man, and Hunt is charming as always, managing to imbue her lightly written character with more depth than appears on paper. Carey similarly always adds tremendously to any film in which he appears.

Hunt and Heflin would both later work at MGM; half a decade after appearing in ANNAPOLIS SALUTE, they costarred in MGM’s KID GLOVE KILLER (1942) and SEVEN SWEETHEARTS (1942).

ANNAPOLIS SALUTE isn’t anything out of the ordinary, but it does what it sets out to do, entertain its audience for an hour or so with an interesting story about young men in the service. Viewing this knowing that it’s likely all of these young men would have been serving in WWII around the time of their graduation gives the film a bit of added poignance; indeed, it seems quite likely that many of the men seen in the background would later serve in the war in real life.

— Laura Grieve (Laura’s Miscellaneous Musings).

993MB | 1h 4mn | 720×540 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/60374586BD8874A/Annapolis_Salute_%281937%29_–_Christy_Cabanne.mkv

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