Neo-Noir – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

THE GODSON (1967)

Jon W. — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:04:01 +0000

In Paris, Jef Costello is a lonely hit man who works under contract. He is hired to kill the owner of a club and becomes the prime suspect of the murder. However, his perfect alibi drops the accusation against him. His girlfriend Jane, her client and citizen above any suspicion Wiener and Valerie, the pianist of the club and main witness of the crime, provide the necessary evidence of his innocence supporting his alibi. Free, he is betrayed and chased by the gangsters sent by the one who hired him and also by the police, not convinced of his innocence. Jef seeks out who has hired him to revenge.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville. LE SAMOURAI
Writers: Jean-Pierre Melville (written by), Joan McLeod (novel) (uncredited), Georges Pellegri (uncredited).
Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathaly Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond, Robert Favart, Jean-Pierre Posier, Catherine Jourdan, Roger Fradet, Carlo Nell, Robert Rondo, André Salgues, André Thorent, Jacques Deschamps, Georges Casati, Jacques Léonard, Pierre Vaudier, Maurice Magalon, Gaston Meunier, Jean Gold, Georges Billy, Ari Aricardi, Guy Bonnafoux, Humberto Catalano, Carl Lechner, Maria Maneva.
Cinematographer: Henri Decaë.
Composer: François de Roubaix.

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RIP Alain Delon (1935-2024)

TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1960) [THE PINK FLAMINGO CUT]

Jon W. — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:19:54 +0000

In London’s Soho, Johnny Solo runs the Pink Flamingo Club. He’s tough to intimidate. So when he starts getting threats and demands for protection, he fights back. Behind the takeover plot is a competitor, Diamonds Dielli. Midnight Franklin, who’s Johnny’s girlfriend and one of the club’s headliners, wants to get Johnny out of the business. In the background are a sadistic client, an underage chorus girl, a wisecracking siren who’s not averse to rough trade, a visiting journalist, and a dancer who guards her past. Can Johnny win the struggle with Diamonds, and can Midnight get him out of harm’s way?

Director: Terence Young. AKA Playgirl After Dark
Writers: Herbert Kretzmer (screenplay), Harry Lee (idea).
Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Danik Patisson, Christopher Lee, Kai Fischer, Patrick Holt, Martin Boddey, Sheldon Lawrence, Barbara Windsor, John Salew, Tom Bowman, Ian Fleming, Penny Morrell, Katherine Keeton, Susan Denny, Judith Bruce, Elisabeth Wilson, Shari Kahn, Bill McGuffie, Michael Balfour, Larry Taylor, June Elvin, Morton Lowry, Martin Sterndale, Harry Lane, Robin Chapman.
Cinematographer: Otto Heller.
Composer: Eric Spear.

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Restoration by tygerbug all credits and thanks go to him for this amazing piece of work. This is -for now- the longest copy in existence of this film, as you may know this film is currently in the public domain in the U.S. with several copies floating around but all of them in black and white, this is a rare, fandubbed composite color copy that uses multiple sources. The only “official” color copy of this film released in the market is a German DVD released by Media Target in 2011, the problem with that DVD is and same goes for most German releases of American or British films from this period is that they only include German dubbed audio so a fandub was needed to sync the English audio from the other copies with this one which for what I’ve been told wasn’t easy at all, but not only that, the B&W copy also included some scenes that weren’t included in the German release and because tygerbug didn’t want to left them out he decided to manually re-colour those scenes and tried to match them as best as possible with the other color scenes. Also the German release had some unique scenes for which English audio couldn’t be found, for example the scene starting at 1:06:30, for this scene and another one later on there’s English subtitles which tygerbug also created and that I that I tweaked slightly and improved timings here and there. Finally and if all of this effort wasn’t enough, just as he was about to finish with this project tygerbug found out about a French VHS release of this film that included some censored scenes that weren’t included in either of the other 2 versions previously available, fortunately this VHS was in color so recolouring wasn’t required in this case, those scenes are also included in this composite, super extended cut of the film that he decided to baptize ‘The Pink Flamingo Cut’. Enjoy and thanks again to tygerbug for the exquisite reconstruction/restoration job!

HEATWAVE (1982)

Jon W. — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:32:36 +0000

During a sweltering Sydney summer, architect Stephen West faces determined community opposition to his greatest opus, a $200 million inner-city development called the Eden Project. The developer, Peter Houseman, hires goons to forcibly remove squatters and protesters from a line of old terraces that are to be demolished. Local newspaper publisher Mary Ford enlists union help to ban work on the project. Fiery activist Kate Dean rallies the divided residents, some of whom want to sell out. At a swanky Christmas party, she poses as a waitress in order to tip food over Houseman. When Ford disappears, architect West and activist Dean become uneasy allies in an attempt to find out what happened.

Director: Phillip Noyce.
Writers: Marc Rosenberg & Phillip Noyce (screenplay), Mark Stiles & Tim Gooding (based on an original screenplay by).
Stars: Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Gregg, Anna Maria Monticelli, John Meillon, Dennis Miller, Peter Hehir, Carole Skinner, Gillian Jones, Frank Gallacher, Tui Bow, Don Crosby, Lynette Curran, Graham Rouse, Paul Chubb, Vic Rooney, P.J. Jones, Gary Waddell, Alistair Duncan, Mercia Deane-Johns, Peter Williams, Robyn Moase, Bill Bader, Lloyd Scott, Robert Menzies, Kerry McGuire, Anna North, Mike Harris, Margo Lee, Bill McCluskey, Kathy Klinger, Joy Smithers, Ian Nimmo, Danny Costi, Richard Gilbert, Frankie Johns, Mark Allan, Frankie Johns, Phillip De Carle, Fred Welsh, Bill Lyle, Jim Karangis, Kati Edwards, Colin Yarwood, Frank Jaymes, Cecil Bratton, Janet Foye, Anna Taranto, Barbara Pappas, Elsa Wunder, Scott Griffiths, Sandy Parker, Frank Austin, Evelyn Docker, Elizabeth Burton, Simon Reptile, Bernard Curran, Alexander Economos, Karen Herbert, Rosa Martini, Nico Lisena, Alice Lodge, Samantha Rebillet, Michelle Linley.
Cinematographer: Vincent Monton.
Composer: Cameron Allan.

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FEVER (1987)

Jon W. — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:33:17 +0000

Policeman Jack Welles finds himself in possession of the pay off from a huge drug deal. He decides to keep the money but his plans turn sour when he discovers his wife with her young lover. In the ensuing struggle the lovers mistakenly believe they have killed Jack. They take the money and run, pursued by Jack and a hit man from the drug syndicate. The action explodes as they each fight for their own desires and obsessions.

Director: Craig Lahiff.
Writers: Josephine Emery (screenplay) (as John Emery), Josephine Emery (based on a story by) (as John Emery) & Craig Lahiff (based on a story by).
Stars: Bill Hunter, Gary Sweet, Mary Regan, Jim Holt, Lawrence Mah, Rodney Van Der Wall, Carmel Young, Peter Goerecke, Adrian Shirley, Kathryn Fisher, Peter Douglas, Hedley Cullen, Warwick Cooper, David Winston, Mandy Huxtable.
Cinematographer: Robert Cribbett, David Foreman.
Composer: Frank Stangio.

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There’s a little video glitch from for 35 seconds or so from 53:33 till 54:08, other than that this is a very good VHSRip.

MINAGOROSHI NO REIKA (1968)

Jon W. — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:47:37 +0000

Tai Katô’s highly stylised & often-seedy tale of revenge is definitely not for the faint hearted! Five women sexually molest a 16-year-old delivery boy & drive him to suicide. Like Oshima’s Violence at Noon & Imamura’s Vengeance is Mine, this legendary exploitation film portrays the disturbing anatomy of a serial killer. Stars Makoto Satô as the revenge-driven killer who sets out to avenge his friend’s suicide by appointing himself judge, jury & executioner.

Director: Tai Katô. AKA I, the Executioner / Requiem for a Massacre
Writers: Tadashi Hiromi (story), Tai Katô, Haruhiko Mimura, Yôji Yamada. みな殺しの霊歌
Stars: Junko Toda, Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O, Makoto Satô, Kin Sugai.
Cinematographer: Keiji Maruyama.
Composer: Hajime Kaburagi.

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LI GUI CHAN SHEN (1987)

Jon W. — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:50:28 +0000

Fred Tan’s Split of the Spirit is a macabre tale of supernatural possession, necromantic battles, and the vengeful phantom of a woman scorned. In Tan’s stylish neo-noir thriller, a renowned female choreographer becomes overtaken by the specter of a murdered woman, who forces her to enact revenge upon the men who have wronged her.

Director: Fred Tan. AKA 離魂 / Split of the Spirit.
Writer: Fred Tan.
Stars: Siu-Fung Wong, Shu-Yuan Hsu, Shao-Kang Wu, Kuan-Chung Ku, Lap Ban Chan, Ai-Li Chou, Cynthia Khan, Tai-Kit Mak, Tuan-Sun Yang, Yuan-Chang Yang.
Cinematographer: Wei-Han Yang.
Composer: Hung-Yi Chang.

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EYEWITNESS (1981)

Jon W. — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:25:19 +0000

——UPGRADED——

New York City custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There’s been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that Daryll really knows something, they target both him and Tony to keep their secrets hidden.

Director: Peter Yates.
Writer: Steve Tesich.
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, James Woods, Christopher Plummer, Irene Worth, Pamela Reed, Albert Paulsen, Kenneth McMillan, Morgan Freeman, Alice Drummond, Sharon Chatten, Chao Li Chi, Keone Young, Dennis Sakamoto, Henry Yuk, Mikhail Bogin, Moshe Geffen, Jo Davidson, Bill Mazer, John Roland, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Milton Zane, Richard Murphy, Dow McKeever, Jhoe Breedlove, Kimmy Wong, Alex Rosa, Mark Burns, Iris Whitney.
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti.
Composer: Stanley Silverman.

Optional subtitles in English, Spanish, German, Bulgarian, Polish and Romanian are available for this film, to enable them on the video player click on the cogwheel, click again on the last option (субтитры) and select the language of your choice.

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MKV | 8.93 GB | 1920×1040 | 23.976 FPS | 11,800 kb/s | FLAC 602 kb/s & AAC 87 kb/s (Commentary by Peter Yates)
Language: English | Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian (soft)

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DELUSION (1991)

Jon W. — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:30:08 +0000

——UPGRADED——

A man who has just embezzled money from his company is driving through the Nevada desert. He picks up a pretty girl and her seemingly goofy boyfriend. The girl is a Las Vegas showgirl and the boyfriend turns out to be a professional killer, and he has no intention of letting the motorist finish the trip.

Director: Carl Colpaert.
Writers: Carl Colpaert, Kurt Voss.
Stars: Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach, Robert Costanzo, Tracey Walter, Barbara Alyn Woods, Amanda Horan Kennedy, Angelina Fiordellisi, Raymond Singer.
Cinematographer: Geza Sinkovics.
Composer: Barry Adamson.

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