From Carol Reed, the renowned director of Night Train to Munich, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, The Man Between, Trapeze and Oliver!, comes this thrilling drama starring Ralph Richardson (The Sound Barrier), Trevor Howard (The Offence), Robert Morley (When Eight Bells Toll), Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables), Kerima (The Devil Is a Woman), George Coulouris (Citizen Kane), Wilfrid Hyde-White (The Browning Version) and James Kenney (The Slasher). When the immoral Peter Willems (Howard) is accused of stealing in his position at a Dutch East Indies port, he persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard (Richardson), to take him up-river to a secret trading post on a remote Indonesian island. There, he falls in love with the beautiful native woman Aissa (Kerima), as the cunning Babalatchi (Coulouris) tries to trick and blackmail him into disclosing the entrance of the secret trading route. Beautifully shot in black-and-white by John Wilcox (The Last Valley) and Edward Scaife (An Inspector Calls), Outcast of the Islands is a compelling adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s classic novel.

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The post Carol Reed – Outcast of the Islands (1951) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to
become the next champion.

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The post Basil Dearden – The Rainbow Jacket (1954) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin has other ideas though, and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.

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In this adaptation made during the the London Blitz of George Bernard Shaw’s edgy comedy of the same name, Wendy Hiller as the idealistic title character is running a Salvation Army shelter in the East End that aims to save the souls of the destitute while preserving their physical well-being. She becomes engaged to the sceptical, unworldly Adolphus Cusins (Rex Harrison), a professor of Ancient Greek who discards his agnosticism and joins the Salvation Army to be near his fiancee. Cusins is then startled to learn that Major Barbara in fact comes from a privileged background – she is the grand-daughter of an earl on her mother’s side, and her long-absent estranged father Andrew Undershaft (a young Robert Morley) is a multi-millionaire arms manufacturer.

Undershaft is a self-made cynic, a man who relies on his intelligence and wealth to overawe others. When invited to resume contact with his wife and children to help with the family finances, he becomes convinced that Barbara is wasting her abilities in evangelising to the poor, and seeks to overturn her belief system. For her part, Barbara is fascinated by her father yet appalled that his fortune has been built out of violence and destruction. But when Undershaft makes a large and much-needed donation to the Salvation Army that Barbara’s superiors have no hesitation in accepting, he succeeds in challenging his daughter’s principles and undermining her loyalties. At the same time, Cusins is finding Undershaft’s philosophical stance strangely congenial…

2.29GB | 2h 01m | 718×538 | mkv

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The post Gabriel Pascal & Harold French & David Lean – Major Barbara (1941) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Alistair MacLean’s two-fisted, no-holds-barred adventure yarns are a natural for the screen. When Eight Bells Toll brings in more slugging, quick action twists, sharp dialog, amusing acting than many pix twice its length.
Anthony Hopkins has a role that creates a character full of resource, courage, cheek and personality. A kind of James Bond, without the latter’s trademarks. Character is a naval secret service agent assigned to find out how millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated. He starts his explorations in the bleakness of the Western Highlands of Scotland. Hopkins and his pal (Corin Redgrave) posing as marine biologists find mystery and hostility among the natives and the obvious suspect is a suave, rich Greek tycoon (Jack Hawkins) whose luxury yacht guests some odd characters.

Main femme appeal comes from Nathalie Delon as the mystery woman who is allegedly Hawkins’ wife but apparently goes over to the Hopkins camp. Hawkins, himself, as the Greek tycoon retains his usual stature and his voice (lost to throat cancer) is very shrewdly dubbed [by Charles Gray] . Comedy relief comes from Robert Morley, as Hopkins’ snobbish, stuffy chief.

2.66GB | 1 h 34 min | 1024×436 | mkv

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Quote:
Four teenage teddy boys are tried in the Old Bailey, charged with the “murder in the course of theft” of a garage night watchman, a conviction for which carries an automatic death penalty. Although initial evidence from the prosecuting counsel seems damning of the youthful gang, their unorthodox defence lawyer’s skilful arguments soon throw the jury into confusion and disarray.An innovatively flashback-structured courtroom drama from the kitchen-sink era, starring Richard Todd and Robert Morley as the legal eagles who go head to head. This gripping period piece exploits the media controversy that engulfed capital punishment at that time (it was abolished in 1965), and was one of the first British social melodramas to acknowledge the rise of teenage gangs and the juvenile delinquency resulting from them.

Notes:
Never released on vhs or dvd.
Clean, high-bitrate broadcast by the BBC.

Key plot points revolve around “old” British currency, referred to in the dialogue through slang:
12 pence (pennys) = 1 shilling (s)
20 shillings == 1 pound (£)
farthing = ¼ penny (¼d)
ha’penny = ½ penny (½d)
tuppence = 2 pence (2d)
thrupence = 3 pence (3d)
tanner = 6 pence (6d)
bob = shilling
quid = pound

The word “shilling” was usually omitted from prices in everyday speech, so “one pound two and six”, for example, was £1 2s 6d.

1.46GB | 1h 57m | 704×400 | avi

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Subtitles:English

The post Sidney J. Furie – The Boys (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known, wins an election on the promise of peace and prosperity, yet ironically ends up as the presiding spirit of an interminable war with Revolutionary France. Both his health and his private life suffer from the strain.

1.72GB | 1h 42mn | 720×540 | mkv

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