PLOT: ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
In this comedy, a model finds herself inadvertently embroiled in the theft of a society woman’s valuable pearl necklace after modeling a wedding dress in the aristocrat’s home. The pearls are hooked onto the hem of her voluminous dress. Afterward the model quickly flees the crime scene by diving into a taxi. The driver takes a shine to the girl and helps her hide. He and his friends then begin investigating the theft.

They Met in a Taxi.avi

General
Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 8mn
Size:	818 MiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	608x464
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 558 kb/s
Audio
2.0ch MP3 @ 106 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/357AF4EE3E436F9/They_Met_in_a_Taxi.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Alfred E. Green – They Met in a Taxi (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Also known as Mad Wednesday, this collaboration between silent comedy star Harold Lloyd and screwball comedy genius Preston Sturges was meant to be a splashy comeback for both. Unfortunately, it sank at the box office.

The film starts with original footage from Lloyd’s 1925 classic The Freshman. Because of his success on the football field, Harold Diddlebock (Lloyd, who seems to have hardly changed in 22 years, – still sporting a straw hat, and horn rimmed glasses) is offered a job. Full of hope and promise, the former gridiron champ finds himself in a minor bookkeeping position, where he remains forgotten for the next 22 years, until he’s abruptly fired.

Stunned, Diddlebock finds a friendly barman with a wicked talent for mixing drinks (Edgar Kennedy). When he awakes two days later, he has no idea what he’s spent the last 48 hours doing. It turns out he’s bought a circus and… well, you get the idea. Every scene is its own little gem of delirium, including one in which an artistic bartender invents the drink that launches Diddlebock into his drunken spree.

Lloyd isn’t always adept with Sturges’s madcap dialogue, but the sterling supporting cast of character actors makes that language spin like a top.

Players: Harold Lloyd, Raymond Walburn, Franklin Panghorn, Margaret Hamilton, Edgar Kennedy (as the Barman), Rudy Vallee, and Jackie the Lion.

700MB | 1h 29m | 512×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/492F357EBBA85A7/The_Sin_of_Harold_Diddlebock_(1947).avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Preston Sturges – The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A workplace practical joke goes awry when an office clerk (Dick Powell), believing he has won a $25,000 prize, takes his girlfriend (Ellen Drew) on an extravagant Christmas shopping spree…in the middle of July! When the truth comes out, he’s not prepared for the consequences.

1.92GB | 1h 07mn | 786×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/CC4A710832BA570/Christmas_in_July__1940__576p_BluRay-HJ-KG.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English

The post Preston Sturges – Christmas in July (1940) first appeared on Cinema of the World.