Based on the Bela Bartok opera. Bluebeard woos his women and then swiftly disposes of them.

Powell originally intended for this to be screened without subtitles so the viewer could be fully immersed in the music and visuals. In 1978, he reissued the film with some contextual-setting hardsubs. This is that version.

Bluebeard's.Castle.1963.(1978.Version).BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Subtitles:English hardsubbed, English

	
Duke Bluebeard's Castle.1963.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

Journey.Into.Fear.1943.Norman.Foster.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, English [SDH]

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A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. What he doesn’t know is that the ship is guarded by the spirit of an ancient Moro princess.

1.01GB | 1h 33m | 720×404 | mkv

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A remarkable monkey may hold the key to the mysterious murder of a wealthy philanthropist.

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Steven K. Hill writes:
Shot largely among the gritty working class landscapes of mid-century San Francisco, Woman on the Run spotlights Ann Sheridan as an acerbic wise-cracking wife in search of her estranged husband who suddenly disappears after witnessing a gangland assassination.

After a suffering through a series of disappointing roles at Warner Bros, Sheridan bought out her remaining contract and turned to the upstart independent Fidelity Pictures in an attempt to re-establish her career as a leading lady. The resultant film was Woman on the Run, and Sheridan delivers a tour-de-force performance, aided by equally strong turns by Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith, and Ross Elliott in the supporting roles.

Director Norman Foster, a former protégé of Orson Welles, had just returned to Hollywood after helming a successful string of features in Mexico and captured the anxiety-driven mood of Alan Campbell’s screenplay with seemingly effortless dexterity. The Bay Area location filming—in addition to the opening sequence shot in Bunker Hill and the dramatic climax staged at the Santa Monica Pier—was beautifully shot by esteemed cinematographer Hal Mohr and adds atmospheric realism to the production that studio-bound efforts of the era could not hope to match.

Although the film opened strongly amidst positive critical reviews, attendance dwindled precipitously due in part to a bizarre advertising campaign that touted the movie as a woman’s picture: “a probing study of the failure of modern marriage.” Quickly falling into obscurity, the film has been long and unjustly neglected, compelling Film Noir Foundation founder and president Eddie Muller to remark that “If Woman on the Run had been directed by Raoul Walsh or Joseph H. Lewis or Don Siegel, it would have been rediscovered decades ago and heralded as a minor masterpiece.”

For years it was believed that a restoration of Woman on the Run was impossible after the last known surviving print of this film was destroyed in a studio fire. An exhaustive worldwide search was eventually rewarded with the discovery of duplicate pre-print elements in the vaults of the British Film Institute.

2.2GB | 1 h 18 min | 776×576 | mkv

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Subtitles: English

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Quote:
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

+Commentary with Film Historian Jeremy Arnold

1.94GB | 1h 19m | 788×576 | mkv

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Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
The story of an Arkansas farm woman and her son. When the son expresses his desire to marry a girl who comes from a family that the mother thinks is trash, she enrolls him in the army.

Review:
In this sentimental film directed by John Ford a mother disapproves of her son’s marriage and gets him drafted; he is killed in the war, and she comes to realize her error.

In Three Cedars, Arkansas Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) works in the field with her son Jim (Norman Foster). She reads to him from the Bible about the dangers of an evil woman, and he says he wants to enlist. Jim meets Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon) at night, putting her drunk father to bed and hiding his jug in the hayloft. Mary asks Jim not to enlist. Jim tells his mother he wants to earn wages so that he can marry. Hannah tells Mary to stay away from Jim and gets Jim put in the army. Jim gets off a troop train and kisses Mary, who tells him she is going to have a baby. He tries to stay to marry her, but he is forced back on the train. Jim fights in the trenches. In a rain storm Mary’s father asks Hannah to help deliver Mary’s baby. A telegram to Hannah reports that Jim was killed. She pieces together a torn photo of him.

Ten years later Hannah buys 20 acres more. Jimmy Saunders fights at school with boys who say his mother never married. He and Mary want to move away. Hannah is invited to go to France as a gold-star mother on a pilgrimage. She declines until they accuse her of being scared. She boards the train, and Mary gives her flowers to take. Hannah befriends a Carolina woman who smokes a pipe on the cruise ship, and in Paris they both excel at a shooting gallery. The mothers are honored by the French and place flowers. Hannah says her son disgraced her, and she won’t go to the cemetery.

On a bridge Hannah finds a drunk young American named Gary Worth (Maurice Murphy). She gets a taxi to take him home, and everyone argues over the fare. She fixes breakfast for him, and he tells her he wants to marry Suzanne (Heather Angel); but he needs his mother’s permission. Suzanne comes in and at first thinks Hannah is Gary’s mother. The three spend their last day together in the country at a hay festival. Hannah realizes that Suzanne is pregnant and offers to take her in. Hannah calls on Mrs. Worth (Hedda Hopper) about her son, saying they both are cruel because they are possessive. Hannah says she killed her son in the war, and she tells Mrs. Worth to let Gary go his way with Suzanne if she wants him. Mrs. Worth accepts Suzanne. Hannah goes to Jim’s grave and asks forgiveness. Hannah calls on Mary and asks her to forgive her too, hugging and kissing Jimmy.

The sad lesson of a possessive parent who ruins her son’s life is eventually learned when she finds a similar situation in France. The tremendous losses in a world war take many forms.

— Sanderson Beck (Movie Mirror)

Pilgrimage (1933) -- John Ford.mkv

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