1935 – Stream On Demand

The all-star 1935 ‘David Copperfield’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, childhood, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, HBO Max, historical, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD 07/09/2022 Sean Axmaker

Charles Dickens’ sprawling, semi-autobiographical novel gets squeezed into a vivid (if episodic) 130-minute Hollywood feature in the handsome MGM production from director George Cukor.

‘Werewolf of London’ – the original movie wolfman on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, Peacock, supernatural, SVOD 10/12/2021 Sean Axmaker

Before Lon Chaney Jr. made history as the Wolfman, Henry Hull became a werewolf in this 1935 film from Universal Pictures in horror movie heyday.

Last chance: Errol Flynn is ‘Captain Blood’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, historical, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, literary adaptation, SVOD 05/24/2021 Sean Axmaker

Errol Flynn was Warner Bros. contract player, barely a supporting actor on the Hollywood scene, when he shot to stardom in the starring role of Captain Blood (1935), Warner Bros.’ lavish adaptation of Rafael Sabatini’s novel. His bravado and charisma brings to life the rousing tale Peter Blood, a courageous British doctor who, unjustly sold […]

‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ – a delirious sequel on Peacock and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, National Film Registry, Peacock, pre-code, SVOD, thriller 10/07/2020 Sean Axmaker

Boris Karloff wrings even more pathos from his plight as the misunderstood monster and Elsa Lanchester’s hissing, birdlike performance as the bride made her an instant icon.

Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 classic by Josef von Sternberg

Criterion Blu-ray: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood

Blu-ray, Criterion Collecton, Hollywood Classic 08/10/2018 Sean Axmaker

Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) At the dawn of the sound era, as German movie star Emil Jannings left Hollywood to return to Germany, the actor invited Austrian-born/American-raised director Josef von Sternberg (who directed Jannings in The Last Command, 1928) to Universum Film A.G. to direct him in that studio’s first […]