1957 – Stream On Demand

Barbara Stanwyck packs ‘Forty Guns’ on Criterion Channel

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Sam Fuller’s 1957 classic is a western of operatic emotion and pulp style, a true maverick production filled with cinematic thunder and sexual tension.

The original ’12 Angry Men’ on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

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Henry Fonda stars as the hold-out juror in a murder trial in the original big screen version of the classic jury room drama directed by by Sidney Lumet.

Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in Billy Wilder's adaptation of the Agatha Christie play

‘Witness for the Prosecution’ with Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

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Director Billy Wilder takes on the classic Agatha Christie mystery in this stylish and witty adaptation of her hit stage play, costarring Tyrone Power and Elsa Lanchester.

Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are bound for the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ on HBO Max

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This excellent 1957 film from director Delmer Daves is a taut, austere western in the ‘High Noon’ mode but with a film noir sensibility.

Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in Alexander Mackendrick's great Broadway noir

Last chance: ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ – Broadway noir on Criterion Channel

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Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis star in this brilliant 1957 classic about the power of media personalities in the intersection of show business and politics.

‘Les Mistons’ and ‘Antoine and Collette’ – Two short films from Francois Truffaut on Criterion Channel

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Truffaut first connects with kids in ‘Les Mistons’ and continues the story of his alter ego Antoine Doinel in ‘Antoine and Collette.’

Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Apu Trilogy’ on The Criterion Channel

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The three films that follow the life of a boy from his impoverished childhood in a rural village to the city and adulthood brought Indian cinema to an international audience.

‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ on Criterion Channel

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The title may sound like pure pulp but The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Jack Arnold’s screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel The Shrinking Man, is compassionate, intelligent, and the most metaphysical American science fiction film until Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scott Carey (Grant Williams), just a guy on a daylong boating excursion, drifts […]

‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ – Hammer horror on HBO Max

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Britain’s Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley’s novel for inspiration for The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)… and then went […]

Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot star in the Swedish classic by Ingmar Bergman

Life, death, and chess in Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ on Criterion Channel

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Bergman is at his most allegorical in this medieval drama about a disillusioned knight returning home from the Crusades and meets death.