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IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080388/
Atlantic City, Louis Malle's fine movie, may be one of the most romantic and perverse ghost stories ever filmed, set not in a haunted castle but in a haunted city, the contemporary Atlantic City,
a point of transit where the dead and the living meet briefly, sometimes even make love, and then continue on their individual ways. This Atlantic City, caught in the first excitement of the legalized gambling boom, is in a state of almost hysterical flux. Elegant, old-fashioned, ocean-front hotels are demolished before our eyes
collapsing gracefully in subdued long shots while new, even bigger, probably flimsier hotels rise to take their places. It's principally about Lou (Burt Lancaster), who dresses neatly in frayed old clothes and fondly remembers the hustling Atlantic City of forty years ago, when gambling was exhilarating because it was
illegal and Lou was the associate of top mob figures. Lou is now reduced to running numbers in the ghetto and living in a soon-to-be-torn-down apartment house just off the Boardwalk. He also acts as
the companion to and occasional lover of Grace (Kate Reid), who came to Atlantic City during World War II to compete in a Betty Grable look-alike contest and is now a bedridden shrew. Lou rather loftily
passes himself off as a former mob hit man who has become—he acknowledges with dignity—a has-been, when in fact Lou is a never-was. At the height of his career he was a mob gofer, an errand boy. He is also
one of Mr. Lancaster's most remarkable creations, a complex mixture of the mingy and magnificent even when we see the vigor of the youthful Burt Lancaster showing through the real age. Playing more or less
opposite Mr. Lancaster is Susan Sarandon, as Sally, a pretty, no-nonsense young woman who works by night shucking clams at a seafood bar and during the day studies to become a casino employee. Her goal: to
become the first female croupier in Monte Carlo. Chief among the other characters is Chrissie (Hollis McLaren), Sally's out-of-date flower-child sister who, without warning, descends on Sally accompanied by
Sally's husband Dave (Robert Joy), a small-town punk who earlier ran off with Chrissie and made her pregnant. When Chrissie and Dave arrive in Atlantic City, riding in the back of an open truck and looking
like turn-of-the-century immigrants, Dave is also carrying a large amount of cocaine, stolen from the Philadelphia mob, which he attempts to sell in the Atlantic City underworld, with disastrous results.
All of the performances are excellent, from Mr. Lancaster, Miss Reid, Miss Sarandon, Miss McLaren, and Mr. Joy, right on down to Sean Sullivan, who appears in two marvelous, very short scenes as an elderly
attendant in a washroom, one of Lou's cronies from the good old days.
Source: DVD
Language: English
Resolution: 720x480
FPS: 23.98
BitRate: 985Kbps
Codec: XviD MPEG 4
Audio BitRate: 192Kbps
File Size: 873Mb
DOWNLAND:
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http://rapidshare.com/files/95525244/AC.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95529335/AC.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95529542/AC.part10.rar
PASS:botnia
IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080388/
Atlantic City, Louis Malle's fine movie, may be one of the most romantic and perverse ghost stories ever filmed, set not in a haunted castle but in a haunted city, the contemporary Atlantic City,
a point of transit where the dead and the living meet briefly, sometimes even make love, and then continue on their individual ways. This Atlantic City, caught in the first excitement of the legalized gambling boom, is in a state of almost hysterical flux. Elegant, old-fashioned, ocean-front hotels are demolished before our eyes
collapsing gracefully in subdued long shots while new, even bigger, probably flimsier hotels rise to take their places. It's principally about Lou (Burt Lancaster), who dresses neatly in frayed old clothes and fondly remembers the hustling Atlantic City of forty years ago, when gambling was exhilarating because it was
illegal and Lou was the associate of top mob figures. Lou is now reduced to running numbers in the ghetto and living in a soon-to-be-torn-down apartment house just off the Boardwalk. He also acts as
the companion to and occasional lover of Grace (Kate Reid), who came to Atlantic City during World War II to compete in a Betty Grable look-alike contest and is now a bedridden shrew. Lou rather loftily
passes himself off as a former mob hit man who has become—he acknowledges with dignity—a has-been, when in fact Lou is a never-was. At the height of his career he was a mob gofer, an errand boy. He is also
one of Mr. Lancaster's most remarkable creations, a complex mixture of the mingy and magnificent even when we see the vigor of the youthful Burt Lancaster showing through the real age. Playing more or less
opposite Mr. Lancaster is Susan Sarandon, as Sally, a pretty, no-nonsense young woman who works by night shucking clams at a seafood bar and during the day studies to become a casino employee. Her goal: to
become the first female croupier in Monte Carlo. Chief among the other characters is Chrissie (Hollis McLaren), Sally's out-of-date flower-child sister who, without warning, descends on Sally accompanied by
Sally's husband Dave (Robert Joy), a small-town punk who earlier ran off with Chrissie and made her pregnant. When Chrissie and Dave arrive in Atlantic City, riding in the back of an open truck and looking
like turn-of-the-century immigrants, Dave is also carrying a large amount of cocaine, stolen from the Philadelphia mob, which he attempts to sell in the Atlantic City underworld, with disastrous results.
All of the performances are excellent, from Mr. Lancaster, Miss Reid, Miss Sarandon, Miss McLaren, and Mr. Joy, right on down to Sean Sullivan, who appears in two marvelous, very short scenes as an elderly
attendant in a washroom, one of Lou's cronies from the good old days.
Source: DVD
Language: English
Resolution: 720x480
FPS: 23.98
BitRate: 985Kbps
Codec: XviD MPEG 4
Audio BitRate: 192Kbps
File Size: 873Mb
DOWNLAND:
http://rapidshare.com/files/95533190/AC.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95536931/AC.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95540596/AC.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95544633/AC.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95549182/AC.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95554712/AC.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95520057/AC.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95525244/AC.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95529335/AC.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/95529542/AC.part10.rar
PASS:botnia