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Chris Marker – Le mystère Koumiko AKA The Koumiko Mystery (1967)


George Seaton – The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

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An American oil company executive of Swedish descent, now living in Sweden, is blackmailed into spying for the Allies during World War II. At first resentful, his relationship with a beautiful German Allied agent causes him to realize how vital his work is. When he learns that his anti-Nazi German associates are under suspicion from the Gestapo, he risks his own life to go back inside Nazi Germany to finish his work and try to save his friends. It’s an exciting story with great characters, filmed partly in the locations where the story took place.

3.51GB | 2 h 20 min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/60AFE7A433568DC/The.Counterfeit.Traitor.1962.576p.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/0CEE58804C18C11/The.Counterfeit.Traitor.1962.576p.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/AB728D8A42D0C93/The.Counterfeit.Traitor.1962.576p.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/EE4648E905A7123/The.Counterfeit.Traitor.1962.576p.part4.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English, Japanese (muxed)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Cleopatra (1963)

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Synopsis:
In 48 B.C., Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy, now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra, attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey, borne by his governors, Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesar’s support from her brother, Cleopatra hides herself in a rug, which Apollodorus, her servant, presents to Caesar. The Roman is immediately infatuated; banishing Ptolemy, he declares Cleopatra Egypt’s sole ruler and takes her as his mistress. A son, Caesarion, is born of their union. Caesar, however, must return to Italy. Although he is briefly reunited with Cleopatra during a magnificent reception for the queen in Rome, Caesar is assassinated shortly thereafter, and Cleopatra returns to Egypt. When Mark Antony, Caesar’s protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her lover and military ally. Their liaison notwithstanding, Antony, to consolidate his position in Rome, marries Octavia, sister of the ambitious Octavian. The marriage satisfies no one. Cleopatra is infuriated, and Antony, tiring of his Roman wife, returns to Egypt. There he flaunts his liaison by marrying Cleopatra in a public ceremony. Sensing Antony’s weakness, Octavian attacks and defeats his forces at Actium. Alarmed, Cleopatra withdraws her fleet and seeks refuge in her tomb.

5.68GB | 4h 10mn | 1024×462 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/504B5F3DC801DCE/Cleopatra.1963.Part1.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.5.1.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/F2822CE8419E91A/Cleopatra.1963.Part2.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.5.1.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English, Danish, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese (muxed)

Alain Jessua – Jeu de massacre AKA The Killing Game (1967)

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Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.

Review :
‘When I was a little boy, I wanted to be Tintin, and to live his life of adventures. Bob, in “Jeu De Massacre”, might have registered the same desire, but his dreams have never faded away and now nearing thirty, when he meets two cartoonists (the man writes the scripts, the wife draws), he tells them he’s been through all the stories they have invented: as soon as he appears on the screen, we feel how irrational Bob is. Michel Duchaussoy […] gives a tormented feverish performance; when he tells his imaginary adventures, he uses the “Passe Simple”, a tense you would not use in a conversation: it creates a gap between the narrator and what he is telling. Bob has an over possessive wealthy mother with whom he lives in Switzerland in a desirable mansion by the Leman Lake. He invites the two artists who have understood that they can make money out of this mythomania. Next step will be writing a brand new comic strip which introduces a new hero, some kind of “Super Bob”. It won’t be long before the rich kid wants to become this superman. Little by little, the writer’s wife, who draws the strip (the drawings are terribly dated, Barbarella style, but it inspires Bob’s vital extremism) begins to feel like becoming herself the heroine of the story and she creates Helen, Bob’s partner in crime. But soon, being on the paper won’t be enough…’

1.45GB | 1 h 34 min | 915×572 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/7707BB77CD41796/The.Killing.Game.1967.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/A9EE54634B3DDDC/The.Killing.Game.1967.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.part2.rar

Language:French
Subtitles:English

Bernard Chaouat & Patrice Duvic – Vampirisme AKA Vampirism (1967)

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Zenzô Matsuyama – Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku AKA Happiness of Us Alone (1961)

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Synopsis
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and dumb. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations … and joys.

Quote:
The directorial debut of longtime screenwriter and frequent Masaki Kobayashi collaborator Zenzo Matsuyama.

1.98GB | 2 h 8 min | 855×364 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1C48E6FB7AFB367/Happiness.of.Us.Alone.1961.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/096947A8EDC7843/Happiness.of.Us.Alone.1961.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese | English | Japanese Sign Language
Subtitles:English, Japanese

Roger Corman – Tales of Terror (1962) (HD)

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A capital summarization of Roger Corman’s Poe cycle. The model is L’Amore, the meditation on the director’s art in contrasting moods addressed by the actor — Magnani playing urbane and then peasant for Rossellini, Vincent Price fitting Corman’s sense of the grotesque into august and absurdist guises. Morella, the first tale, gives a deft synthesis of House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum. Maggie Pierce enters a crumbling castle, inside are tarantulas in crimson chalices and a cake wrapped in cobwebs, Price is her grief-consumed father, her dead mother (Leona Gage) looms in spirit (an overseeing portrait) and in the flesh (a mummy in the boudoir); the vengeful past averts family healing, so the climax mates incest with necrophilia amid the flames. The Black Cat is tilted towards A Bucket of Blood, keyed up to Peter Lorre’s sublimely viscous feeling for farce. Lorre’s soused stroll through mock-Victoriana (“Could you spare a dime for a moral cripple?”) leads him to the wine-tasting convention for his mugging face-off with Price, distorted by an increasingly blotto camera eye. Conjugal infidelity soon is uncovered, Price and Lorre’s wife (Joyce Jameson) are entombed behind a bricked wall, dubbed a “marvelous jest” by the desperate prey, a “nice, professional job” by the tranquil predator; Corman’s knowing hallucinations are stretched through funhouse lenses on their way to the meowing punchline, and possibly to Jean-Pierre Melville’s homage in Le Cercle Rouge. Morella unspools via tracking shot, The Black Cat follows freeze-frame with quick zoom, and The Case of M. Valdemar picks up the colored swirl of a mesmerist’s glass wheel. Price is a dying man who, hoping for an end to his agony, offers himself to science — hypnotist Basil Rathbone covets his wife (Debra Paget) and takes over his soul, the whole process filmed with Price in close-up to suggest Major Amberson’s expiration turned psychedelic. Argento and Romero would later show how Poe’s tales can inform modern terror, Corman shows how they can voice different facets of an artist’s sensibility. With David Frankham, and Wally Campo.

Fernando F. Croce

4.43GB | 1h 28mn | 1280×546 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/0DCAC070AE6827E/Tales_of_Terror.1962.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/A5F9771C73134CF/Tales_of_Terror.1962.720p.BluRay.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/203F78DEB1CF493/Tales_of_Terror.1962.720p.BluRay.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/19BBDDDB88AD49D/Tales_of_Terror.1962.720p.BluRay.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/E0E9068F65C60A1/Tales_of_Terror.1962.720p.BluRay.part4.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/AF99B6AE5530731/Tales_of_Terror.1962.720p.BluRay.part5.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Portuguese (idx/sub)

Eugène Lourié – Gorgo (1961)

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A salvage vessle is nearly sunk off the Irish coast by an undersea earthquake. A few nights later, a walking sea monster tangles with the fishing boats and enters the town. The salvage vessel captures Gorgo and takes it to London for display. Gorgo’s mother, who is upset and significantly larger follows his trail to London leaving a wake of destruction in her path.

1.62GB | 1 h 16 min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/50AE527E9FFC27A/Gorgo.1961.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/246601329AF71BD/Gorgo.1961.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None


Kihachi Okamoto – Sengoku yaro AKA Warring Clans (1963)

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In this Japanese samurai adventure, a brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to the enemy. The remaining samurai try in vain to coerce him back, but their efforts are thwarted by crooked warriors who launch an attack.
The sword fights are especially exciting.

an imdb user wrote:
Before “Samurai Assassin”, “Sword of Doom” or “Kill!”, director Okamoto helms this light hearted actioner that has just about every element from other chambara movies. Well photographed and meticulously planned, it’s an impressive genre film.

The film opens with action as the Iga ninja chase and attack a lone young man who turns out to be another Iga ninja but has quit the clan in search of a moral life. The young man defeats the ninja including the feared leader. Observing the fight is a wandering ronin who befriends the young man noting that while the man is a good fighter, he’s ignorant of the ways of the world. Almost immediately they are greeted by an odd stranger who claims he will soon become the ruler of Japan. The stranger convinces them to join a passing armed delivery service headed by a young woman who’s a short sword expert. And so it starts, complete with political intrigue, a stolen shipment of rifles, a ruthless pirate gang commanded by a beautiful princess and the return of the Iga ninja who have vowed to kill the young man.

The film is very brisk and Okamoto’s direction is stylish and experimental, especially in the editing. Shot in clear black and white and with a jazzy, quirky score by Masaru Sato, the film is a lot of fun despite the rather standard storyline.

The fight scenes are extremely well shot with careful camera placement and sharp editing taking place of actual movement from the actors. Believe me, I’d rather see actors who can actually do the moves but here is an example of how to shoot a fight when the actors may not be the best. It works really well.

Recommended.

697MB | 01:37:42 | 640×272 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/71FAD0E3BC37F16/Warring.Clans.1963.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.avi
https://nitroflare.com/view/55EA20AD4B3A29A/Warring.Clans.1963.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.idx
https://nitroflare.com/view/92B947106C4EE3D/Warring.Clans.1963.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx/sub)

Konrad Wolf – Der geteilte Himmel AKA The Divided Heaven (1964)

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While recovering from a mental breakdown, the young Rita Seidel recalls the last two years, in which she fell in love with Manfred, a chemist who is ten years older. As Manfred became disillusioned with his opportunities in East Germany, he moved to the West. Rita followed him there and tried to persuade him to return but soon realized he would never do it. Rita comes to terms with the past and decides to concentrate on her work and the building of a socialist society. Although some of the characters are shown as overzealous in their support of the regime, for obvious reasons the nature of the East German dictatorship is never depicted or discussed. The Stasi, the all-pervasive secret police headed by the director’s brother Markus Wolf, is not mentioned. The film is set in the period immediately before the erection of the Berlin Wall.

The script was adapted from Christa Wolf’s novel Divided Heaven, released in 1963. The film was removed from circulation on several occasions in the following years, when the Socialist Unity Party of Germany decreed it, depending on the political situation. In 1995, a group of historians and cinema researchers chose Divided Heaven as one of the 100 most important German films ever made. (Wikipedia)

1.59GB | 1h 53mn | 1021×454 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/827C90A9FE15237/Der_geteilte_Himmel.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D2BF877DDFB527D/Der_geteilte_Himmel.part2.rar

Language(s):German
Subtitles: English (default), French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean muxed

Hynek Bocan – Pasták AKA Reform School AKA Borstal (1968)

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Pasták is a Czech drama film. It was made by director Hynek Bočan in 1968 but only released in 1990.
A young teacher is sent to a rural reform school, where he is faced with brutality of the inmates. The story, based on the novel of the same name by Karel Misafi, was banned during the final editing of the film and was only finished and released after the Velvet Revolution.

The director Hynek Boãan (b. 1938) avoided persecution during “normalization” by shooting harmless comedies and fairy tales. After the Velvet Revolution he became one of the most productive directors of television series. He was responsible for the continuation of the popular television series “Nemocnice na kraji mûsta po dvaceti letech” [Hospital on the Edge of Town After 20 Years] dealing with the fates of doctors and their patients. At the present, he is making a series about the lives of famous ice hockey players on the decline.

2.01GB | 1h 31mn | 757×568 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5243E93CA1D5CAE/Pastak.1968.x264.AC3.DVDRIP-Xi0NGZAiXiA.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/5E21B604C3B525F/Pastak.1968.x264.AC3.DVDRIP-Xi0NGZAiXiA.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/54ECB2B4A99EBB9/Pastak.1968.x264.AC3.DVDRIP-Xi0NGZAiXiA.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7A6945D58208A51/Pastak.1968.x264.AC3.DVDRIP-Xi0NGZAiXiA_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:Czech,English

Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt – Tænk på et tal AKA Think of a Number (1969)

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The story opens just before Christmas, when solitary, apathetic bank clerk Flemming Borck uncovers a plot to rob his bank. (It’s a convoluted set-up, so we’ll just leave it at that.) After doing a little rookie recon, Borck identifies the would-be bank robber as a faux shopping-mall Santa Claus, and counter-plots to steal the money himself and let Santa take the blame. This works out about as badly as you might imagine, and our bumbling protagonist spirals further and further away from the carefree, laconic lifestyle he had hoped to ensure for himself.

1.33GB | 1h 35mn | 768×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D1636A0CEAA5141/Think_of_a_Number.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/09EA21837B13E79/Think_of_a_Number.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/6A47B1554E577F5/Think_of_a_Number_corr_v2.srt

Language(s):Danish
Subtitles:English, Danish

Cornel Wilde – No Blade of Grass (1970)

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A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John Custance, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother’s farm in Scotland, where hopefully, there will be food and safety for all of them. Along the way, they encounter hostile soldiers, biker gangs, and all manner of people who are all too willing to take advantage of travelers for a mouthful of food.

1.69GB | 1 h 37 min | 859×358 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/CEB9E77572944A2/No.Blade.of.Grass.1970.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/05FAD87CC2CFF88/No.Blade.of.Grass.1970.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

J. Lee Thompson – Cape Fear (1962)

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Synopsis:
Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden’s life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family, particularly targeting Bowden’s daughter, Nancy. Initially, Cady uses his newfound knowledge of the law (learned in prison) to annoy the Bowdens, then poisons the family dog… Who’s next ?

2.60GB | 1h 45mn | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/8343B12944D1155/Cape.Fear.1962.576p.BDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D16204AE2E341A7/Cape.Fear.1962.576p.BDRip.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/F7490F89701E620/Cape.Fear.1962.576p.BDRip.x264.part3.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish (muxed)

György Révész – Utazás a koponyám körül AKA Trip Around My Cranium (1970)

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A thoroughly original, delightful comedy with serious undertones, this film is based upon the writings of a famous Hungarian journalist, Frigyes Karinthy. Karinthy, who, in his later years, suddenly became afflicted with a brain tumor, wrote a humorous novel about his thoughts during his illness. A Journey Around My Skull is not only a description of the illness and the great medical adventure of the writer, a strange, constantly unbalanced manner of life, but blends in several characteristics of Karinthy’s earlier works. The writer (played by Latinovits, who won the Best Actor Award at the recent San Sebastian Film Festival for his role here) is placed in pre-war Budapest, during the 1930s, and, while seated in his favorite cafe one day, he hears the roaring of trains. The recurrence of this sound is soon diagnosed as a brain tumor. He then travels to Stockholm for an operation and, while under local anaesthesia, the imaginative qualities of his mind, evocations of Karinthy’s flights of humorous fancy, take over the narrative. Everything is enlivened by rich, baroque escapades in which Karinthy’s personality breaks into several characters, including a sarcastic, bewigged aristocrat (called the Marquis), who comments upon the writer’s shortcomings. There are Felliniesque circus scenes, a phantasmagoric set with music hall interludes, a toy airplane ride, amusing flashbacks to childhood, allusions to Mussolini and Hitler—all the grab-bag flourishes of an artistic reverie, an imagination fluctuating between ecstasies and the intimation of doom. The excitements in A Journey Around My Skull are worth experiencing—it is experimental cinema at its best, a clever amalgam of wit and philosophical sardonicism that keeps an artist’s brain flourishing.

1.22GB | 1 h 17 min | 921×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/ADE7AC83601BE74/Gyorgy_Revesz_-_%281970%29_Trip_Around_My_Cranium.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/806C90F93E8BB50/Gyorgy_Revesz_-_%281970%29_Trip_Around_My_Cranium.part2.rar

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English, Hungarian


Jean Dréville – La Fayette (1961) (DVD)

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I’m the marquis de Lafayette !
..or La Fayette ,the French spelling.The first thing to bear in mind is that ,at the time,it was the biggest budget France had ever spent for a movie:hence the cast which includes Orson Welles as Franklin -a part he had already played in Sacha Guitry’s “si Versailles m’était conté”-,Vittorio DeSica ,Jack Hawkins ,Edmund Purdom ,Liselotte Pulver;on the other hand,the French stars are not big names: Pascale Audret and Michel LeRoyer were far from being very famous compared with Bardot,Delon,Belmondo,Ventura or Moreau.Other assets were Claude Renoir’s peerless cinematography and a lilting tuneful score .

But the harsh truth is that Dreville’s epic is virtually forgotten in today’s French collective memory:it has completely disappeared from dictionaries of films even the ones which feature the worst bombs though.And it’s certainly unfair.Michel Dreville has never been an unrecognized genius as his earlier works testify:melodrama -the priceless weepie “la cage aux rossignols”-,biographies- “horizons sans fin” about female pilot Hélène Boucher-,Alexandre Dumas -the first version of “la reine Margot ,which ,despite of Jeanne Moreau ,is inferior to Chereau’s remake with Isabelle Adjani.As for his comedies (“les sept péchés capitaux”,” à pied ,à cheval ou en spoutnik” ),since we cannot say something nice.His best works are probably “copie conforme” ,thanks to Louis Jouvet, an actor so great any movie he makes cannot be bad,and this “Lafayette”.

“Lafayette’ is not really a biography for Lafayette’s story is far from being over after his American adventure:he played a prominent part in the French revolution and even during the Restoration.Michel Le Royer is well cast as the lead:he has youth,panache and enthusiasm going for him and he’s credible -it was a hard task because the marquis was barely twenty -:he embodies the end of the courtier,as Louis the Fourteenth wanted the noble to be:the scene with Monsieur ,the king’s brother is revealing.Lafayette was ahead of his time, a visionary who had read the philosophers and who felt things were about to change:”now liberty has a home” he says ,on his way back to France.He could have added ” and its home is not mine”.

First part takes place in France ,after a short prologue which shows Brave New World’s plight;the second one makes good use of the cinemascope for the battles scene.The dialogue is above average .Besides,the director displays respect for the audience :the American and English speak English -there are a lot of subtitles-,and the French French,which,at the time was not that much obvious.Even Lafayette tries his hand at English with a funny accent.And unlike “the patriot” ,in Dreville’s movie,the English are not sadistic brutes and nasty executioners

Historians are going to say that,for instance, Marie -Antoinette and Lafayette ,were not as thick as thieves ,and that the queen called the New World hero “Monsieur Blondinet” (=fair-haired boy,meant pejoratively).These are minor quibbles.”La fayette” is not a masterpiece,but it’s pretty entertaining .

DVD Format: PAL
Program: DVDShrink
Menus: None
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: None
133 min.

https://nitroflare.com/view/4596308C4120F27/Lafayette.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/B0FFCD5A1BF8783/Lafayette.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/011E97D501E0004/Lafayette.part3.rar

Language(s):French and English
Subtitles:Hardsubbed French for English parts

Pierre Granier-Deferre – Paris au mois d’août AKA Paris In The Month Of August (1966)

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Henri is alone in Paris during the month of August while his wife and children go on vacation. By chance he meets Pat, a beautiful young English woman who’s come to Paris for a photoshoot but who has nobody to show her the town.

2.66GB | 1 h 43 min | 992×420 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/05367BE950612A7/Paris.In.The.Month.Of.August.1966.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7A64F5A29734744/Paris.In.The.Month.Of.August.1966.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/22E4B4AEF3C1002/Paris.In.The.Month.Of.August.1966.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D42C96C77341C66/Paris.Au.Mois_d%27Aout.1966.BDRip.x264-FuFu_corr2.srt

Language(s):French, some English
Subtitles:English,French HoH

Terence Fisher – Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

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A group of English tourists are seeking a place to stay for the evening while travelling in the Carpathian mountains. The local monastery is full up and there are no vacancies at the inns, either. Our travellers wind up at Castle Dracula, which looks quaint enough in the daylight. Father Sandor from the monastery has warned them away from the place, but they stupidly ignore him. As night falls, one of the men is abducted by the castle’s caretaker, who upends him above a tub and slashes his throat. He bleeds into the tub, over the dusty remains therein, and suddenly, Dracula rises again and promptly transforms one of the women into a vampire wanton. Our hero and her fiancee seek help at the monastery and this time, Father Sandor takes them in. Sandor knows what evil has descended on the land, but is unable to stop Dracula from giving his unholy communion to our hero’s girl. The chase is on to destroy the vampire before his chosen bride joins him in undeath. The film climaxes with a twilight showdown on the frozen river that flows in front of Castle Dracula, when Father Sandor realizes that the running water beneath the ice is fatal to vampires….For a while, the formula in the Hammer Films had the power of myth. The elements assembled for the Hammer Horrors seemed ordained by fate. These movies pitted the upright forces of good against the depraved forces of evil according to strictly ritualized rules: the secondary female character becomes a vampire wanton, the hero’s girfriend becomes tainted, the vampire hunting savant educates the hero in the ways of vampire slaying, and the vampire is destroyed at the end–usually in some variety of spectacular disintegration. The formula strangled the Hammer Horrors in the end, reducing them to pale shadows that subsisted on t&a and a splash of red rather than the red meat of great horror movies. But at the oustet, before it was stale, it worked marvelously. Dracula: Prince of Darkness is an oddity in the progression of the Hammer movies. Oh, it follows the formula religiously, of course, but it is radically distinct from The Horror of Dracula. By removing the film from the confines of Victorian England and by changing the savant into robust Andrew Kier rather than slender Peter Cushing, Dracula: Prince of Darkness FEELS different from The Horror of Dracula even though it really isn’t different at all. This is the third of Hammer’s Dracula films and the second to star Christopher Lee (Lee declined a part in Brides of Dracula, fearing that he would be typecast). Lee cements his position as Lugosi’s heir to the part here, despite having no dialogue. The screenplay reportedly had Dracula uttering lines like, “I am the apocalypse!” which Lee refused to speak aloud on film (and really, who can blame him?). Lee’s cultured voice was a rich part of his performance in the first film. Its absence here is disappointing, but Lee’s PRESENCE still dominates the film. It should be said of this film that the scene where Father Sandor shoots the ice out from under Dracula at this film’s climax may very well be the best vampire slaying on film. It is certainly one of the most unusual.

3.28GB | 1h 30mn | 1280×544 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/ED9A1D4F7803ED3/dracula.prince.of.darkness.1966.720p.bluray.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/AC0B7297751A62F/dracula.prince.of.darkness.1966.720p.bluray.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7203BE3556C9CE9/dracula.prince.of.darkness.1966.720p.bluray.x264.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/DCFB7FAD823B46D/dracula.prince.of.darkness.1966.720p.bluray.x264.part4.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

Peter Graham Scott – Captain Clegg AKA Night Creatures (1962)

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Synopsis:
In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in this locale, and they send Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his crew to check it out. As the Captain gets into his investigation, mysterious swamp phantoms cloud up the real issue which seems plain enough to see. Captain Collier suspects that the odd village vicar (Peter Cushing) might be hiding something, and what better way to do that than by fortuitous ghosts to scare away the curious, or by posing as someone he is not?

2.10GB | 1 h 18 min | 1024×508 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/495E2DEA4E16A15/Captain.Clegg.AKA.Night.Creatures.1962.576p.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/07754B860708B9A/Captain.Clegg.AKA.Night.Creatures.1962.576p.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/DFB07766C18851F/Captain.Clegg.AKA.Night.Creatures.1962.576p.part3.rar

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

Anatole Litvak – Goodbye Again (1961)

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Goodbye Again, released in Europe as Aimez-vous Brahms? is a 1961 romantic drama film produced and directed by Anatole Litvak. The screenplay was written by Samuel A. Taylor, based on the novel Aimez-vous Brahms? by Françoise Sagan. The film, released by United Artists, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, and Jessie Royce Landis.

Paula Tessier (Bergman) is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest (Montand), a “philandering business executive” who refuses to stop seeing other women.[3] When Paula meets Philip (Perkins), the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man’s advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young “Maisies”. While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the May–December romance.

Quote:
These two actors [Montand and Perkins] are wonderful for their parts. It’s a long time since I worked with two actors I enjoyed so much. They are both charming, both great personalities and very different, and you understand why I—in my part as Paula—love them both. ”

—Letter written by Ingrid Bergman while on set

1.27GB | 1h 55mn | 716×464 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B9F011FC1C5718D/Goodbye_Again_1961-muxed.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/6D35D868436881C/Goodbye_Again_1961-muxed.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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