1936 – Stream On Demand

Myrna Loy and William Powell (with Asta) as Nick and Nora Charles in the great mystery series

‘The Thin Man’ – Champagne sleuths on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Classic Movie, DVD, family friendly, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Max, Mystery, SVOD 11/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

It’s cocktail hour on the mystery beat when William Powell and Myrna Loy play Nick and Nora Charles, the world’s most debonair detective team, in the classic series of snappy mysteries.

Charlie Chaplin takes on ‘Modern Times’ on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Hollywood Classic, Kanopy, Max, National Film Registry, satire, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, silent film, SVOD 05/30/2023 Sean Axmaker

This silent comedy for the sound era takes on industrialization and Big Brother while bidding farewell the The Little Tramp.

Leaving soon: The 1936 ‘Show Boat’ with Irene Dunne and Paul Robeson on HBO Max

!Featured, adapted from the stage, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, Musical, National Film Registry, SVOD 02/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

James Whale directs the second and best screen adaptation of the classic musical of a floating paddlewheel playhouse in the 19th century Deep South.

‘Dracula’s Daughter’ – the elegant offspring on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Peacock, SVOD 10/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

Universal’s cut rate sequel to ‘Dracula,’ without Bela Lugosi and featuring a striking turn by Gloria Holden, turns out to be an unexpectedly sleek and stylish movie.

Last chance: The glory of Astaire and Rogers in ‘Swing Time’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Criterion, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, music, Musical, National Film Registry, SVOD 07/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were the most elegant of Hollywood’s dance teams in the golden age of American musicals and Swing Time (1936) is the peak of their ten-film output. The plot is as absurd as anything from the era: Astaire is a dancer and gambler who is set to marry his hometown sweetheart […]

Randolph Scott in ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD, western 12/23/2018 Sean Axmaker

The 1936 version of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans stars Randolph Scott stars as trapper and frontiersman Hawkeye. As in the novel, the Caucasian Hawkeye travels with Chingahook (Robert Barrat), the last chief of the Mohican tribe, and Uncas (Phillip Reed), Chingahook’s son, and refuses to join the war against the French […]