Thursday, April 3, 2025

Elizabeth R - BBC Mini Series - Episode 6 - Sweet England´s Pride (1972)

 This the final episode of this remarkable mini series. It deserved a 1080p resolution but this is the only available.

MOVIE LINK WITH SUBS IN ENGLISH: https://dai.ly/k1rSaYX2Zi7aRLCNgB4


We are now in the final years of Elizabeth’s life and reign. Though she defeated the Armada she is still at war with Spain and later battles have been a strain on the country’s treasury. Many of these battles have been headed by Robert Devereaux, the favorite who replaced Dudley but Devereaux is much more arrogant than his stepfather and a bigger headache for her Council.

Elizabeth still relies on her Spirit, the elder Cecil but his son now serves the Queen and serves her well despite her ever changing moods. If his father can deal with it, so can he but like his father he has another favorite causing chaos in the realm but as I said before, Devereaux is worse than Dudley.

This is no more evident then when he DARES to try to raise a hand to her in front of her Council and they all prove they would be willing to kill him right then and there because what he did was treason. Still, like Dudley before him, he is bound to make a mistake that will get him out of favor.

He does make a mistake and it is the ultimate betrayal, a rebellion! Not even Dudley had the balls to do that and making matters worse he makes fun of her. His arrogance was so great he honestly thought the people would back him but they know which way the wind blows and it is always in the Queen’s favor. This time she does not hesitate. She orders his execution and he can’t talk his way out of it this time. He is even willing to throw his own kin under the bus to spare his swelled head but it’s not enough. He’s finished, it’s his own doing and the Council members present are enjoying every second of his downfall and demise.

Elizabeth’s final days are full of agony and pain. Her servants plead with her to go to bed but she refuses and spends long hours standing, her thumb in her mouth. This actually happened and Glenda recreates this splendidly. Finally she sits down and dies peacefully but not until she names Mary Queen of Scots’ son James VI as her heir and with this final act she unites the kingdoms of Scotland and England.

This series respects the history it represents with a cast equally respectful and sadly they do not make historical dramas like this anymore. Now it’s more sexualized rather than plot driven and younger generations look more to these shows to learn their history rather than look in the materials the writers of this series did.

THIS IS NOT ALL, FOLKS! 

I WILL TRY TO POST THE MOVIE 'MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS'  WITH VANESSA REDGRAVE AND GLENDA JACKSON, WHICH WAS FILMED BY THE SAME TIME.


Monday, March 31, 2025

Elizabeth R - Mini Series - Episode 5 - The Enterprise of England (1972)

The execution of Mary Queen of Scots has outraged the Catholic factions of Europe and now the Spanish are threatening to invade England. Elizabeth still holds Cecil and Walsingham responsible but Cecil is in poor health and she needs him now more than ever because her realm is in danger. Cecil has put up with a lot from her, yet he is still willing to serve her. So is Robert Dudley who is also in poor health and though still married part of his heart is still with Elizabeth.

His stepson, Robert Devereaux is the Queen’s new favorite and he is a little jealous yet there is nothing he can do about it. Elizabeth likes young, handsome men around her but they need to be able to cope with her ever changing moods like the rest of the court does.

The Spanish invasion begins at sea while Elizabeth rides out to Tilbury to rally her land forces. Glenda recites the Queen’s famous rallying cry with both power and passion and gives the men the boost they need to fight for England. But they really won’t need to. The damage is being done to the Spanish fleet at sea. The defeat of the Armada humiliated the Spanish and Phillip II. It also sent a message that Elizabeth wouldn’t give up her crown without a fight and her people were behind her.

But the joy of her victory is short lived. She soon learns her beloved Robert Dudley is dead. She knew he was ill but wasn’t ready to face the thought of losing him. Now she is forced to and we can see the deep love she still had for him by the intense grief she displays when she is finally alone. In this moment, she is not a Queen but a woman, a woman with a broken heart that will never heal.


NOW THE EPISODE IS PUBLISHED ON MY CHANNEL REVISTA CINE TV ORION AT DAILYMOTION. WITH ENGLISH SUBS.

https://dai.ly/k3zwpCdlbxxa4eCLTdu

Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Streets of San Francisco TV Series - Episode 0 - Pilot - (1972)

The Streets of San Francisco is an American television crime drama filmed on location in San Francisco and produced by Quinn Martin, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television (QM produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run).

It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two homicide inspectors in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons on ABC between 1972 and 1977, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes.[2] Douglas left the series at the start of its final season, and was replaced by Richard Hatch.

The series started with a pilot movie of the same title (based on the 1972 detective novel Poor, Poor Ophelia[3][4] by Carolyn Weston) a week before the series debuted. Edward Hume, who wrote the teleplay for the pilot, was credited as having developed the series based on characters in Weston's novel. The pilot featured guest stars Robert Wagner, Tom Bosley, a
nd Kim Darby.

LINK FOR THE EPISODE, SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH:

https://dai.ly/k4evO4glzlXREMCLeHq

Friday, March 28, 2025

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 4 - Horrible Conspiracies

Mary, Queen of Scots, has been held prisoner in a British castle for 20 years, basically being spoiled while under house arrest, yet unable to leave. Behind the scenes scheming goes on with Catholic supporters of Queen Mary setting up a treachery against Queen Elizabeth. All Queen Mary seems to want is to return home or claim the throne of England through less nefarious means. Enemies of Queen Mary, desperate to rid themselves of her, step up to convince Queen Elizabeth to sign her execution, but she refuses. Their craftiness knows no bounds, and as history shows, that fate was sealed as Mary was in her castle prison.

Set nearly 30 years into her reign, Queen Elizabeth has given up on the idea of finding a husband and spawning an heir, so this episode deals mainly with political intrigue rather than the romantic pressures of the previous two episodes. Both queens are presented with noble personalities, so there's no Livia. Livilla, Messalina, Agrappinilla, Eleanor or Isabel to make a she devil out of either character.

Both women knew from birth that family loyalty in royalty is inconsequential when it comes to maintaining order for the throne. In their eyes, the other is the one doing the plotting, unaware of the set-up being plotted around them. In her second episode, Vivian Pickles is quite good, a bit more matronly and age appropriate than Vanessa Redgrave was in the same year's "Mary Queen of Scots" where Jackson also played Elizabeth. Both portrayals are worth acclaim though. The men here in charge of the plot are quite sinister, especially Dudley who tells a condemned man that death is quick but the path to it is tedious before he taunts him with torture. History has been brutal for millenniums, but the subtlety of the hint of that brutality makes it all the more vicious

Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I - Elizabeth R (Elizabeth Regina)

Vivian Pickles as Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

Movie File: https://mega.nz/file/XgABjbaI#xQINC0oBqxQEKEAKhndnl3Z-kd10vD1cjD3t23IWkAo

English Subtitles File: https://mega.nz/file/CgBnyTrQ#gq9D0mfUpd-kJrmzbOeW8Wl40eDlFhQMieDfc-QHdkU

Portuguese Subtitles File: https://mega.nz/file/L0Q1HIgI#2Zv2v8zahGEwxy84hUYSfBFCAb6A3xsp2aAUfNOoCZI

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Il Presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970)

In 1970 the football sports industry was nothing new, but a comedy/comical film about it definitely was. Alberto Sordi plays the part of Benito Fornaciari, a pale, religiously devout Catholic Upper Middle class Italian, who inherits from a long lost uncle a minor league football club, of all things!. He decides to visit the club so as to sell it. But the local population have other ideas, through an almost armed uprising they “force” him not to sell the club, but rather, lead it to other glories on the football field. Gradually his initial reservations about football slowly erode away to be replaced by an almost fanatical devotion to “his” football club, to the point that he abandons his family, friends and home town.

Director: Luigi Filippo D’Amico.

Writers: Sergio Amidei, Alberto Sordi, Adriano Zecca.

Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Accatino, Rino Cavalcanti, Dante Cleri, Teodoro Corrà, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Tina Lattanzi, Margarita Lozano, Carla Mancini, Elena Pedemonte, Omar Sivori, Francesco Sormano, Carlo Taranto, Giuliano Todeschini, Rosita Torosh.

Composer: Piero Piccioni.

VIDEO LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://files.fm/f/bffbs7funy

Elizabeth R - 1971 TV Mini series - Episode 3

As England reels after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France,  Elizabeth meets her most eligible suitor yet: François, Duke of Alençon, the younger brother of the French king. A marriage will cement France's sought-for alliance with England. Despite the Puritans' rousing opposition in the country (of which her zealously anti-Catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François. As her duties as queen clash with her feelings as a woman, Elizabeth faces her toughest decision.

The marriage would have cemented an alliance between England and France. However, Elizabeth eventually abandoned the proposal in 1581. 

Elizabeth is charmed by François, but her advisors are cautious and anti-Catholic. 

The Puritans in England are also strongly opposed to the marriage. 

Elizabeth's xenophobic subjects are also discontent with the proposal. 

Elizabeth may have been aware that Anjou was her last realistic chance of marriage and of having an heir. 

Director

Richard Martin

Writer

Julian Mitchell

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines and Michael Williams as Duke of Alençon.

Subtitles: English and Portuguese.

English subs link for download: https://mega.nz/file/eppVBSQQ#XLX8ufJv0f1ghSKAtz6y4K20G2RLk5elgVV9Wge9XJY

Portuguese subs link for download: https://mega.nz/file/ShoAnRzK#NGwOvv-PX2JahEkLGQ9hArdwF0TwiMX2FTq4UQgxcYU

Video link for download: https://mega.nz/file/eoBhWDob#Zar3yx2i6LJxM6A12k5LwKxOERdxxi15NiF7ngE_1xk

Link for costume movie review: https://frockflicks.com/tbt-elizabeth-r-1971/


Sunday, March 16, 2025

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 2

At last crowned queen, Elizabeth, 25 yeras old,  finds herself under immense pressure to marry, while her relationship with Robert Dudley prompts widespread scrutiny, threatening a scandal.

Now on the throne. Queen Elizabeth is a young monarch with plenty of suitors.

The King of Spain expresses an interest, but to Elizabeth  his Catholicism and interest in her half sister gets in the way.

Elizabeth is attracted to Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse.

Unfortunately, Dudley is married, his ancestors had a penchant for betrayal and when his wife is suddenly found dead, Dudley is accused.


Director

Herbert Wise

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines


Subs in English and Portuguese for download:

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 1

 


After the death of her half-brother King Edward VI, the young Princess Elizabeth is dragged into an ongoing battle with her half-sister, the newly crowned Queen Mary.

Jason Kemp later played King Edward VI's uncle Arthur, Prince of Wales in The Shadow of the Tower (1972), which is a prequel to this miniseries.

Bernard Hepton (Archbishop Thomas Cranmer), Rosalie Crutchley (Catherine Parr), Basil Dignam (Bishop Stephen Gardiner) and John Ronane (Thomas Seymour) all reprise their roles from The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).

Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 90-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the ABC in Australia and broadcast in the United States on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. The series has been repeated several times, most recently from 15 March 2023, by BBC Four.

Elizabeth R was filmed at a variety of locations including Penshurst Place which doubled as the queen's castle grounds and Chiddingstone in Kent, though all the interiors were recorded at the BBC Television Centre.

The first episode was broadcast on 17 February 1971, beginning on screen with the year 1549 as the setting, with Princess Elizabeth's difficult ascent to the throne of England nine years later. The final episode was shown on 24 March 1971, the 368th anniversary of the Queen's death on March 24, 1603. It was repeated almost immediately in response to audience demand

This is not a YouTube video. Find the link for the 1st episode and two subs (English, Portuguese). Download to watch.

Portuguese subtitles: https://mega.nz/file/7l4WQDTQ#Lu86qUqv8U-YrH9NstNvcNiBqx7GbwgJ8ARByqaHcvk

English subtitles: https://mega.nz/file/ulRBjYwD#8at5IaBqhbfHjB3qcrMnwCzkrNoT3ILEr-VGFr5TYJU

Video: https://mega.nz/file/z94WgK5B#xCy4eLrRB6Em-1tuRXMl4fRtgNkNkl1DGC0eJPaooY0

Tonight or Never - Heute nacht oder nie - (1972)

Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?

Director: Daniel Schmid. 

Stars: Ingrid Caven, Voli Gelier, Peter Chatel, Igor Josza, Peter Kern, Béatrice Stoll, Rosemarie Heinikel, Harry Baer, Viktor Latscha, Irene Olgiatti, Peter-Christian Berner, Anna Fadda, Léonie Küng, Angelika Prosa, Liz Panama, Bohoumil Octabecz, Silvio Pasquarelli, Peter Hartmann.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3454162242214

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The Gorgon Case - Sprawa Gorgonowej - (1977)

On December 30, 1931 a 17-year-old daughter of engineer Henryk Zaremba is murdered. Rita Gorgonowa, a housekeeper, nanny of Zaremba\’s children, and his lover is accused of the murder. It was the most sensational murder of those times, followed with interest by the general public in Poland. The film is a reconstruction of the events, in particular of the trial itself. Majewski\’s picture raises the issues related to the functioning of the judiciary system, stressing the fundamental principle of law that in order to sentence an accused person indisputable evidence of guilt is required.

Director: Janusz Majewski. 

Stars: Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski, Andrzej Lapicki, Roman Wilhelmi, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Jan Englert, Wojciech Pszoniak, Stanislaw Zaczyk, Wiktor.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/4602424527526

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Jacob, the Liar - Jakob der Lügner - (1975)

Trapped in a Polish Ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still-a man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people. 

Director: Frank Beyer. 

Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Manuela Simon, Dersö Garas, Zsuzsa Gordon, Friedrich Richter, Margit Bara, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 

1975 Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Bear.

1977 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/2610668505766

Elizabeth R - BBC Mini Series - Episode 6 - Sweet England´s Pride (1972)

  This the final episode of this remarkable mini series. It deserved a 1080p resolution but this is the only available. MOVIE LINK WITH SUBS...