synopsis
It is 1912, and George Apley (Ronald Colman) is a stuffy, self-satisfied member of Boston’s upper class, confident of the superiority of his hometown and his family. He is fond of quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson at every opportunity. For 18 years, he has hosted Thanksgiving dinners at his home, but the dinner that opens the film marks an irrevocable change. His comfortable, predictable world is overturned when he learns, to his horror, that both his son and his daughter have fallen in love with non-Bostonians instead of with the partners he has arranged. Son John, always intended for his cousin Agnes, a shy girl who adores him, has fallen for Myrtle, the daughter of a successful manufacturer who lives in Worcester. Daughter Eleanor is in love with Howard Boulder, a lecturer at Harvard whom George causes to lose his job.

Will George learn his lessons and become a better person?

The Late George Apley.1947.DVDrip.24fps.x264.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Joseph L. Mankiewicz – The Late George Apley (1947) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Two strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an “imaginary” honeymoon with their “winnings”.

1.44GB | 1h 39mn | 712×534 | mkv

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Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post Lewis Milestone – Lucky Partners (1940) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An unjustly neglected, extremely funny jab at the media empire and the world of big business. Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) is an unemployed genius who holds a Ph.D., skims the encyclopedia for enjoyment and never forgets a thing he’s read. He applies for work at a soap company owned by Burbridge Waters (Vincent Price) but is rebuffed by the suds magnate. Beauregard is so annoyed by the treatment he receives at Waters’s hands that he decides to bankrupt the company by becoming a contestant on the popular radio quiz show. Broadly handled but squarely on-target in its satire of the media, Champagne for Caesar is nimbly helmed by direct [Richard] Whorf and benefits considerably from its talented cast. Colman’s typically understated style meshes nicely with Holm’s,and they provide an appropriate foil for Price’s deliberately hamminess as the megalomaniacal mogul…Denied a full run upon its initial release and broadcast on television in trucated form, this unexpected if modest delight is likely to leave you howling.
— The Movie Guide.

1.67GB | 1h 39mn | 708×531 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4AD6C52F8105E61/Champagne_for_Caesar_(1950)_–_Richard_Whorf.mkv

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

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Synopsis:
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life–he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed “The Amateur Cracksman”. When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to “retire” from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.

1.14GB | 1h 10mn | 704×528 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B690DB1FB87B58A/Raffles_(1930)_–_George_Fitzmaurice.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post George Fitzmaurice & Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast – Raffles (1930) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDb user comments
Both this original and the Wellman remake are marvellous Golden Age films – it’s difficult to compare silents with talkies, or either to the book. In the book you use your imagination, this 1926 original had a cast of thousands, ’39 was a populist version with identical screenplay, full orchestra and name changes, ’66 only had 2 brothers and muzak, whilst if made today would probably have nothing real in it at all.

Three English brothers – Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes and Neil Hamilton – join the French Foreign Legion to escape one of them being accused of stealing a large diamond. They find a hard life awaiting them, coming from the hordes of seething Arabs but more especially their own intense Sergeant Lejaune (Noah Beery). The greasy rat Boldini as played by William Powell jarred a little, but only because you know how urbane he really was in retrospect, while you can almost hear Colman uttering his lines in his own inimitable way. The acting was believable, the direction appeared faultless and generally production values were Paramount-high.

Although I’ve seen the ’39 film many more times I’m finding every time I watch this one (definitely unremastered too) it grows on me more and more, so heartily recommend it as the next best thing to Wren’s novel.

1.37GB | 1:42:26 | 640×480 | avi

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Herbert Brenon – Beau Geste (1926) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
‘The Economics of Happiness’ features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance – and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.

825MB | 1h 8mn | 778×438 | avi

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
Promising medical student Martin Arrowsmith turns down a chance to do research at the McGurk Institute with Professor Max Gottlieb because he wants to marry his sweetheart Leora Tozer. The newlyweds have a tough time on the rural doctoring circuit in Minnesota, but through the encouragement of touring lecturer Gustav Sondelius Martin finds his way back to the Institute in New York with Gottlieb. After a couple years, he’s “scooped” on a major find by Louis Pasteur, but then takes a dangerous trip to the Caribbean to do experimental serum trials on a runaway plague.

Quote:
In this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Sinclair Lewis, Dr. Martin Arrowsmith, an idealistic small town doctor, relocates to the West Indies hoping to end the bubonic-plague epidemic. While there, he must reconcile his desire for prestige with the needs of real people in pain.

https://nitro.download/view/987DCD6E690DAC9/Arrowsmith.1931.DVDRip.x264-pirata00.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish

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