Plot Synopsis:
William Gibson’s novel The Cobweb was brought to the screen by MGM with an impressive, hand-picked cast. Richard Widmark plays the head of a posh psychiatric clinic. Widmark’s wife Gloria Grahame jockeys for the honor of selecting new drapes for the hospital’s library. One wouldn’t think that such a trivial decision would spark so much melodrama; but thanks to those drapes, we are allowed to probe the disturbed psyches of martinet business affairs director Lillian Gish, philandering doctor Charles Boyer, lonely activities director Lauren Bacall, and suicidal patient John Kerr. Oscar Levant, who spent most of his life in and out of “little white rooms”, is ideally cast as a neurotic musician, while Fay Wray has a superb cameo as Boyer’s long-suffering wife. Cobweb served as the screen debuts for both John Kerr and Susan Strasberg. by Hal Erickson

1.68GB | 2h 03m | 720×334 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2F90C85BD06538F/The.Cobweb.1955.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor’s daughter, cross the border posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn’t want to go.

Extra commentary track by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Steve Mitchell is included.

3.19GB | 1h 52m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2A5A8392C055706/The.Secret.Ways.1961.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Phil Karlson & Richard Widmark – The Secret Ways (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men..

2.57GB | 1h 39m | 1024×434 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/63CBE55EADB16DF/The.Last.Wagon.1956.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/DE164B8E22AB9E0/The.Last.Wagon.1956.576p.BluRay.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/DDB108E9784C7A0/The.Last.Wagon.1956.576p.BluRay.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/B7BF0BB52AAF79B/The.Last.Wagon.1956.576p.BluRay.x264.part3.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French

The post Delmer Daves – The Last Wagon (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Recycling elements of My Darling Clementine and The Searchers in a bitter, latter-day light, this late Western by John Ford initiates the last, dark phase of the master’s vision of the corrupting influences of the progress of civilization in the wilderness. James Stewart is introduced to the Ford stock company as a thoroughly venal town marshal, Guthrie McCabe, who’s pressed into service by the cavalry to oversee the ransoming of several whites long held captive by the Indians. McCabe is concerned with nothing but making a buck on the enterprise and coming back with his scalp intact, yet against his better judgment he becomes an arbiter of social and personal justice, and a de facto one-man protest against bigotry and hypocrisy. The cinematography is bleaker than anything seen in Ford’s more heroic Westerns, and the stylistic high point is a hilarious one-take conversation between Stewart and cavalryman Richard Widmark at the river’s edge. –Richard T. Jameson

Two.Rode.Together.1961.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-PTer.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 49 min
Size: 	2.81 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/26427215DF034DB/Two.Rode.Together.1961.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-PTer.mkv

Language(s):English, Spanish
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as a city medical officer, racing against time to stop a plague epidemic. The carrier was an illegal alien, who has been murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. At first facing opposition from rule-bound police captain Paul Douglas, Widmark is finally able to work hand-in-glove with Douglas in tracking down Palance and Mostel, who have themselves become plague carriers. Many of the actors in Panic in the Streets are local nonprofessionals, selected by director Elia Kazan because of their “rightness” within the framework of the story; the rest of the cast is peopled by such film veterans as Barbara Bel Geddes, Tommy Cook, Emile Meyer and H.T. Tsiang. Widmark’s son is played by an uncredited Tommy Rettig, four years before he starred on the Lassie TV series. Though Elia Kazan liked to claim that much of Panic in the Streets was improvised, there was a script, adapted by Richard Murphy and Daniel Fuchs from a story by Edward Anhalt and Edna Anhalt.
— Hal Erickson

2.02GB | 1 h 36 min | 806×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DEE7519493E7C83/Panic.in.the.Streets.1950.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English, Greek (muxed)

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Synopsis:
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.

2.70GB | 1h 38mn | 766×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D0CBCDCCE7E5A44/Yellow.Sky.1948.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB_(audio_fixed).mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post William A. Wellman – Yellow Sky (1948) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In the small frontier mining town of Warlock, rancher Abe McQuown’s gang of cowboy cutthroats terrorize the peaceful community, humiliating the town’s legitimate deputy Sheriff and running him out of town. Helpless and in need of protection, the townsfolk hire the renowned town tamer Clay Blaisdell, as unofficial Marshal, to bring law and order to the town. Clay arrives with his good friend and backup Tom Morgan. The two men stand up to the ranch gang and quiet the town. Johnny Gannon, a former member of the ranch gang is bothered by the gang’s actions, reforms and takes on the deputy Sherrif job while his brother remains part of the gang. The addition of the official lawman to the mix further complicate matters, leading to an inevitable clash of the cowboys, the townsfolk, the gunslingers and the law.

2.95GB | 2h 1mn | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B26A4603ACAD138/Warlock.1959.VOSTFR.576p.BDRip.AC3.x264-KINeMA.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

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