1946 – Stream On Demand

David Lean’s ‘Great Expectations’ on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, British Cinema, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, family friendly, historical, literary adaptation, Max, SVOD 09/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

The classic 1946 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel is one of the greats and director David Lean captures the warm humor and richness of character that so many filmmakers miss.

Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready, directed by Charles Vidor

Rita Hayworth is ‘Gilda’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 05/28/2023 Sean Axmaker

Rita Hayworth is at her most iconic as the forties sex-bomb in this film noir classic costarring Glenn Ford as an American tough guy in Buenos Aires.

Leaving soon: The original ‘The Killers’ on Criterion Channel

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Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner becames stars in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir classic, a caper twisted by betrayal, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.

‘The Chase’ – nightmare noir on Kanopy

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, DVD, film noir, Free, Hollywood Classic, Kanopy, suspense, SVOD 11/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Cummings is a shell-shocked World War II vet who gets a job with a Miami mobster and falls for his employer’s wife.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 film noir classic directed by Howard Hawks

Last chance: Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD 08/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.

Last chance: Ida Lupino is her own woman in ‘The Man I Love’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...? 07/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Raoul Walsh directs this refreshingly mature drama of an independent woman in the post-war Los Angeles culture of swanky nightclubs and dive bars and the seedy, scheming characters who frequent them.

Harold Russell, Dana Andrews, and Fredric March in William Wyler's 1946 drama

‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ – Coming home on Prime Video and Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Kanopy, National Film Registry, SVOD 12/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

World War II vet William Wyler put his soul into this 1946 drama of veterans returning home, which earned seven Academy Awards.

‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ for Lana Turner and John Garfield on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Max, suspense, SVOD, thriller 11/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

The original film version of James M. Cain’s sultry crime classic of lust and murder is the glossiest film noir ever made.

‘Cluny Brown’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Romance, SVOD 09/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ernst Lubitsch brings “the Lubitsch touch” to this light but witty romantic comedy starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.

Francine Everett is "Dirty Gertie" in the film directed by Spencer Williams

Black Film History Pioneers – The ‘Blood’ of Spencer Williams on Netflix and Criterion Channel

!Featured, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film history, National Film Registry, Netflix 02/27/2020 Sean Axmaker

The legacy of films made by and for African-American audiences before Hollywood integrated its casts is largely unknown to even passionate films buffs. They were rarely seen by white audiences in their day and were rarely preserved with the same dedication given to the maverick films of Hollywood. Netflix and Criterion Channel present over 20 […]