1933 – Stream On Demand

Fay Wray in the ape's paw in the original 1933 classic

The original ‘King Kong’ on HBO Max

!Featured, adventure, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, giant monsters, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 01/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

The original 1933 adventure classic is the king of the jungle of giant creature features and the groundbreaking special effects are still a marvel.

Claude Rains is the original ‘The Invisible Man’ on Peacock and Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, National Film Registry, Peacock, SVOD 10/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

James Whale directs the first adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel, bringing a mix of humor, horror, and madness to the story.

Jean Harlow is a ‘Bombshell’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, movies about movies, pre-code, satire, SVOD 09/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

Lee Tracy costars as a manipulative press agent in this snappy screwball satire of Hollywood fame and publicity. Victor Fleming directs.

Harry Bauer is Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret in the film by Julien Duvivier

French classics ‘David Golder’ and ‘La tête d’un homme’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Classics, Mystery 06/10/2017 Sean Axmaker

Julien Duvivier directs Harry Bauer in two innovative films from the early 1930s in France, based on novels by Irène Némirovsky and Georges Simenon.

Felix E. Feist's 1933 'Deluge,' the first end-of-the-world disaster movie

Blu-ray: ‘Deluge’ – The original end-of-the-world disaster movie restored

Blu-ray, DVD, Kino Lorber, pre-code, Science Fiction 03/12/2017 Sean Axmaker

Deluge (1933) (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray, DVD), the original end-of-the-world thriller, is a curious and often fascinating artifact. Produced in 1933, before the production code came down on Hollywood, on a relatively modest budget, it imagines not just the destruction of civilization in (unexplained) earthquakes and cataclysmic storms but life after the flood, so […]