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Shanghai Drama was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Le Drame de Shanghai. Director G. W. Pabst, best known for the erotic classics Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora’s Box, seems artistically subdued in this standard tale of pre-WW2 intrigue. The villains are the Japanese, who inveigle a group of exiled White Russians to aid in the subjugation of China. Trapped in the web of deceit is nightclub chanteuse Kay (Christine Mardayne), whose efforts to break away from a sinister Black Dragon-like society are doomed to failure. The film’s only ray of hope is manifested in the character of Kay’s daughter Vera (Suzanne Dempers), who is afforded the opportunity to start life anew with journalist Franchon (Raymond Rouleau). allmovie.com

Le.Drame.de.Shanghai.1938.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/93C0B0C5A3E58C0/Le.Drame.de.Shanghai.1938.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Catherine’s technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle’s husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques’s lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.

	
L'honorable.Catherine.1943.TVRip.x264-FuFu.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 37 min
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https://nitro.download/view/9199C521F8927EA/L’honorable.Catherine.1943.TVRip.x264-FuFu.mkv
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marcel L’Herbier & Jacques de Baroncelli – L’honorable Catherine AKA Honorable Catherine (1943) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In the forties and the fifties,Henry Decoin’s forte was the film noir:”non coupable” which remains ignored today might be his masterpiece,but there are other interesting works such as “la vérité sur Bébé Donge”or “les inconnus dans la maison” .The almost documentary approach of “Razzia sur la chnouff” (about drugs) seems modern even today.And some works which are difficult to see (“Maléfices” “Bonnes à tuer” and “tous peuvent me tuer” probably deserve to be watched).
“Les intrigantes ” belongs to Decoin’s films noirs.An extremely good cast (Jeanne Moreau,Raymond Pellegrin and Raymond Rouleau)is very appealing.It strongly displays Hitchcock’s influence ,much more than his contemporaries Clouzot and Duvivier: Moreau’s face reflected on Pellegrin’s glasses is a quotation from “Strangers on a train” (1951) and the use of a theater during the whole movie and for the final sequences recall “stage fright” (1950).Rouleau plays a theater owner who is accused of pushing his associate from a foot-bridge above the stage.
Louis de Funes’s fans can be interested in his small part of a lousy playwright.(dbdumonteil)

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https://nitro.download/view/013E17AEDB893E1/les_Intrigantes_(1954).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town’s minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression. John too, is accused; Abigail offers him a way to avoid hanging. Elisabeth has her own confession.

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https://nitro.download/view/BFBFD8C047DD2CF/The.Crucible.1957.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
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Subtitles:English, French

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