1958 – Stream On Demand

‘Terror in a Texas Town’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, SVOD, western 11/30/2021 Sean Axmaker

Sterling Hayden is a Swedish whaler on the American frontier in the final film from Joseph H. Lewis and one of the oddest westerns made during the classic Hollywood era.

Kirk Douglas commands ‘The Vikings’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion Channel, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 10/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh costar in this grandly-mounted barbarian fantasy, shot in Technicolor on location in Norway, Germany, and France.

Christopher Lee is Dracula in the Hammer horror film from Terence Fisher with Peter Cushing

Hammer Films’ ‘The Horror of Dracula’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, literary adaptation, remake, SVOD 08/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Christopher Lee is an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula and Peter Cushing an intense, driven Van Helsing in the 1958 remake of the vampire classic.

Gary Cooper, Julie London, and Lee J. Cobb star in the 1958 western directed by Anthony Mann

Gary Cooper is a ‘Man of the West’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 04/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

The great western director Anthony Mann and aging western icon Gary Cooper teamed up for the first and only time in Man of the West (1958), a stark frontier drama of a trio of train passengers stranded in the desert after a railway holdup. Taking responsibility for his helpless compatriots (Julia London as a sad-eyed […]

Ingrid Thulin and Max Von Sydow in the Swedish classic by Ingmar Bergman

Dark theater: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Magician’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, art and artists, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Cinema, movies about theater, SVOD, Venice winner 03/10/2020 Sean Axmaker

Ingmar Bergman created The Magician (Sweden, 1958), in the midst of his most fertile and prolific period of filmmaking. It’s a chamber drama about a travelling medicine show fronted by a mute mesmerist (Max von Sydow) that enters into a battle of wills with the Minister of Health (Gunnar Björnstrand), a rationalist who considers the […]

Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh in the film by Orson Welles

‘Touch of Evil’ – Orson Welles on the border on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Mystery, National Film Registry, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 11/11/2018 Sean Axmaker

Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery Touch of Evil (1958/1998) is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic. It’s considered the last great film noir and the bookend to the true noir era. It was also Welles’s last attempt at a career in Hollywood before he packed […]

Susan Hayward is Barbara Graham in Robert Wise's 'I Want to Live!'

Blu-ray: ‘I Want to Live!’ on Twilight Time

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, Twilight Time 01/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

I Want To Live! (Twilight Time, Blu-ray), the 1958 drama based on the true story of Barbara Graham, the first woman sent to the gas chamber at San Quentin, gave Susan Hayward the greatest role of her career. Though the film was made under the strictures of the production code, it makes clear exactly what […]