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Spy Hunt (1950) George Sherman, Howard Duff

rarefilm — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:59:46 +0000

Roger Quain, who escorts two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, agrees to help a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, by hiding a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But, while in the Swiss Alps, the train is derailed, the panthers escape and three enemy agents hunt down the animals, Catherine and Roger. Will they escape them?

Director: George Sherman

Stars: Howard Duff, Märta Torén, Philip Friend

Also Known As (AKA): Contraespionaje, Chasse aux espions, Le collier de la panthère, Panther’s Moon, K 2 operazione controspionaggio, Luta de Espiões, Spy Ring

IMDB

File Name : Spy Hunt.1950.mkv
File Size : 1.54 GB / 1572.8 MB
Resolution : 790×576
Duration : 01:14:55
Video : AVC, 2 500 kb/s, 24.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 224 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 2 streams

Quality: BRRip
Language: English, commentary (2 separate audio tracks)
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United States
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Spy_Hunt.1950.mkv

The Betrayal (1957) Ernest Morris, Philip Friend, Diana Decker, Philip Saville

rarefilm — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:11:34 +0000

An Allied pilot is captured by the Germans during the war. During his imprisonment, he is blinded by his captors. Realizing that one of his fellow officers betrayed him to the enemy, after the war, despite his disability, he vows to find the traitor.

Also Known As (AKA): La voz del traidor

IMDB

File Name : The Betrayal.avi
File Size : 950.01 MB
Resolution : 608×464
Duration : 01:22:17

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Crime, War

The_Betrayal.avi

The Bells Go Down (1943) Basil Dearden, Tommy Trinder

rarefilm — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:42:01 +0000

The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.

IMDB

File Name : The Bells Go Down 1943.avi
File Size : 1.46 GB / 1493.03 MB
Resolution : 720×544
Duration : 01:25:21

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Drama, War

The_Bells_Go_Down_1943.avi

The Diamond (1954) Dennis O’Keefe, Montgomery Tully, Margaret Sheridan, Philip Friend

rarefilm — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:08:54 +0000

U.S. Treasury Investigator Joe Dennison is sent to England on the trail of a gang of thieves responsible for stealing a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault. One of the crooks is on his way to England to spend the money on phony diamonds. Scotland Yard Inspector McClaren, assigned to work with Dennison on the case, is also working on the disappearance of Dr. Eric Miller, an atomic scientist. Dennison discovers while interviewing Miller’s daughter Marlene that she is wearing a brooch containing a phony diamond, and the brooch had been made by her father.

Also Known As (AKA): Enquête spéciale, La gang dei falsari, Agente federal X-678, The Diamond Wizard, Diamanten

IMDB

File Name : The Diamond Wizard 1954.avi
File Size : 1.17 GB / 1197.71 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:23:30

Quality: WEBRip
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Drama

The_Diamond_Wizard_1954.avi

Smuggler’s Island (1951) Edward Ludwig, Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Friend

rarefilm — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:17:57 +0000

Ex-Navy man Steve Kent, struggling to make a living in Macao, is approached by beautiful Vivian Craig. She wants to hire him and his boat to retrieve some medicine from a plane which crashed into the ocean on a flight from Manila. Kent dives at the crash-site but discovers he’s been tricked into retrieving a cache of gold bars. He intends to report this cache to authorities but his growing attraction to Vivian soon causes him to change his mind. Vivian’s husband, Allan, now appears on the scene. Kent reluctantly agrees to sail the gold to Hong Kong where it will be sold and the proceeds divided equally between himself, Vivian, and Allan. On the voyage to Hong Kong, however, Kent’s boat is pursued both by the police and by a pirate named Bok-Ying.

Also Known As (AKA): Les pirates de Macao, Hong Kong, Piraten von Macao

IMDB

File Name : Smugglers Island 1951.mp4
File Size : 1501.67 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:14:12

Quality: VHSRip
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance

Smugglers_Island_1951.mp4

Buccaneer’s Girl (1950) Frederick De Cordova, Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas

rarefilm — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:48:15 +0000

Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and falls for the pirate; later, having become a New Orleans entertainer, she meets his alter ego, who’s engaged to the governor’s daughter. Sea battles and land rescues follow in lighthearted style.

Also Known As (AKA): A Rainha dos Piratas, La fille des boucaniers, La corsara, A Noiva do Corsário, El capitán pirata, Die Piratenbraut

IMDB

File Name : Buccaneers Girl.1950.mkv
File Size : 1407.71 MB
Resolution : 1464×1080
Duration : 01:16:51
Video : AVC, 2 300 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 256 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: English
Subs: Portuguese (embedded)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Buccaneers_Girl.1950.mkv

Background (1953) Daniel Birt, Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Drama

rarefilm — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:32:12 +0000

In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. They underestimate the effect of their announcement on their three children, who assume that family friend Bill Ogden is to blame. Uncle Bill may indeed be waiting in the wings, but it’s all hardly his fault.

Also Known As (AKA): Rozwód, Edge of Divorce

IMDB

File Name : Background_1953.mkv
File Size : 1124.66 MB
Resolution : 720×540
Duration : 01:20:03
Video : AVC (AVC), 25.000 fps
Audio : AAC (AAC LC), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Background_1953.mkv

Desperate Moment (1953) Compton Bennett, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War

rarefilm — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:37:25 +0000

In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. During the final days of the war, Simon and three other men tried to steal penicillin, from a British Army outpost, for sale on the black market. During the robbery, a British guard got killed. Simon was captured and he initially refused to incriminate himself. However, Simon’s accomplices told him that his girlfriend, Anna DeBurg, died. With nothing to lose, Simon agreed to falsely-confess to the murder of the British soldier in order to save the others and also to receive antibiotics for his illness. The military authorities convict him and sentence him to life in prison. During his transport by train to a central prison, Simon tries to escape. His escape fails and he ends up in the prison hospital where he recovers from his illness. While convalescing, a bewildered Simon is shocked to …

IMDB

File Name : Desperate Moment 1953.avi
File Size : 970.18 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:24:25
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (DivX 5), 1 501 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 96.0 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: VHSRip
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War

Desperate_Moment_1953.avi