Posted on July 31, 2017 | Comments Off on Night and the City (1950) Criterion Collection 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Night and the City (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Sport | Thriller
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom
Director: Jules Dassin
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Tags: Francis L. Sullivan, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom, Hugh Marlowe, Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark
Posted on November 29, 2016 | Comments Off on Rififi (1955) Criterion Collection 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
Crime | Thriller
A twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious heist in the City of Lights. At once naturalistic and expressionistic, a melange of suspense, brutality, and dark humor.
Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey, Pierre Grasset, Robert Hossein
Director: Jules Dassin
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Tags: Carl Möhner, Janine Darcey, Jean Servais, Jules Dassin, Pierre Grasset, Robert Hossein, Robert Manuel
Posted on November 13, 2014 | Comments Off on The Naked City (1948) 720p BluRay AAC1.0 x264-DON
The Naked City (1948)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Dorothy Hart
Narrator: Mark Hellinger
Director: Jules Dassin
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Tags: Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Dorothy Hart, Howard Duff, Jules Dassin, Mark Hellinger, Ted de Corsia
Posted on October 5, 2014 | Comments Off on Topkapi (1964) 720p BluRay DD2.0 x264-CtrlHD
Topkapi (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Thought by many to be the inspiration for the TV series 'Mission: Impossible', Jules Dassin's comedy-thriller follows a group of art thieves as they plot and plan to rob a jewelled dagger from the fortress-like Topkapi Palace museum in sun-soaked Istanbul. With an international cast and a screenplay written by ex-Ealing stalwart Monja Danischewsky, 'Topkapi' is one of the great comic-exotic heist movies.
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Jules Dassin
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Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Jess Hahn, Jules Dassin, Maximilian Schell, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley
Posted on June 30, 2013 | Comments Off on Brute Force (1947) 720p BluRay DTS x264-CtrlHD
Brute Force (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin's forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (a riveting Hume Cronyn). Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Sam Levene
Director: Jules Dassin
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Tags: Ann Blyth, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Hume Cronyn, Jules Dassin, Sam Levene, Yvonne De Carlo
