1958 – Stream On Demand

‘The Horror of Dracula’ – Christopher Lee is the Count on Max

!Featured, British Cinema, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, literary adaptation, Max, remake, SVOD 10/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

The Gothic horror from Hammer Films presents Christopher Lee as an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula and Peter Cushing an intense, driven Van Helsing in the 1958 remake of the vampire classic.

Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh in the film by Orson Welles

Leaving soon: ‘Touch of Evil’ – Orson Welles on the border on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 05/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star in Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic.

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 Prime Video and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 07/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann directs this stark frontier drama of a trio of train passengers stranded in the desert after a railway holdup that turns into a Shakespearean tragedy on the plains.

‘Terror in a Texas Town’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, SVOD, western 01/08/2022 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 Movie, 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.

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 Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, movies about theater, SVOD, Venice winner 03/10/2020 Sean Axmaker

Max von Sydow stars as a mute mesmerist who engages in a battle of wills with a rationalist in this chamber drama of theater, magic, and reason.

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 […]