This was the first movie produced in Israel. It deals with the outbreak of hostilities during the war for independence in 1947. The message of this film was the sadness and stupidity of people killing each other and how “it’s always the old who lead us to war and only the young who die…” (Phil Ochs)

1.67GB | 1h 41m | 710×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/82160D834D4202F/Giv’a.24.Eina.Ona.AKA.Hill.24.Doesn’t.Answer.1955.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

Language:English and hebrew in the same track
Subtitles:English hardcoded for hebrew parts

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Synopsis:
‘Twenty years ago, old Mrs. Barlow was killed in her home at 12, Pimlico Square for her priceless rubies. The murderer searched the whole house without finding them, then disappeared. The house has been empty since then, but now Paul and Bella Mallen move into the apartment. Bella Mallen suffers from forgetfulness and nervousness – at least that is what her husband tells her. An elderly horse wrangler, B.G. Rough worked as a policeman twenty years ago and still remembers the unsolved case. He notices that Mr. Mallen looks just like Louis Barre, Mrs. Barlow’s nephew. And why does Mr. Mallen mysteriously leave every night just to go into the apartment next door, no. 14?’
– Mattias Thuresson

Gaslight.1940.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
Size: 	1.86 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	766x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.283
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 159 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3905913F59755AA/Gaslight.1940.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s).English
Subtitles:English SDH

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Synopsis:
Based on a short story by Alexander Pushkin, this creepy drama tells the tale of Countess Ranevskaya (Edith Evans), an elderly woman who sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards. Captain Herman Suvorin (Anton Walbrook), an embittered Russian soldier, becomes obsessed with discovering her secret and also finds himself smitten by her beautiful young companion, Lizaveta Ivanova (Yvonne Mitchell). As Suvorin gets closer to the truth, his quest takes an unforgettably eerie turn.

2.24GB | 1h 35mn | 786×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/15FC0233E4AFADB/The_Queen_of_Spades_(1949)_–_Thorold_Dickinson.mkv

Language:English+commentary
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Thorold Dickinson – The Queen of Spades (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
‘A high-ranking general is stationed in West Africa, but when a new doctor arrives at his post he is forced to face his dark past. The doctor is an old acquaintance and holds a deadly secret about the general, a secret that could destroy him forever. That is until the doctor is found murdered and the sinister world of the general begins to unravel.’
– Optimum Releasing

Extras:
Introduction by Philip Horne:

https://nitro.download/view/72C8F2E510DC7F0/The.High.Command.1938.DVDRip.XviD.AC3.avi
https://nitro.download/view/2112B740A6DFACA/The.High.Command.1938.Introduction.by.Philip.Horne.DVDRip.XviD.AC3.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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IMDb user:
There are several reasons to relish this curio. It was an apprentice work by Thorold Dickinson, the Hitchcock assistant and cutter who would shoot “Gaslight” and “The Queen of Spades” before becoming Britain’s first professor of film. It is one of the earliest sports movies to feature real sportsmen – acting very woodenly, as befits stiff-upper-lip soccer stars. It is anchored by a mischievously eccentric performance by Leslie Banks, who a few years later was to be the magnificent Chorus of Olivier’s “Henry V”.

Above all, the film lets us glimpse pre-war Britain’s, maybe the world’s, leading football club. Arsenal FC, the “Gunners”, had been raised to pre-eminence by Herbert Chapman, Britain’s first modern soccer manager, until his untimely death in 1934. Five years later his team were still on top, coached by his deputy George Allison, who appears in the movie.

Highbury Stadium, the setting for the murder, was state of the art. The scene in the treatment room underlines Chapman’s far-sighted, scientific approach to caring for his players. He was an early advocate of floodlights and numbered shirts, and even got the name of the local Tube station altered to advertise the Gunners. The film was a massive plug for them; alas, soon after its release the Second World War meant that the lads had to pick up real guns and compete in a more dangerous game. Afterwards Arsenal did not recover its top-of-the-tree status for 25 years. Unwittingly this production memorialises its greatest era.

https://nitro.download/view/164037ACCEEF18E/The_Arsenal_Stadium_Mystery.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

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