Allan Dwan – Stream On Demand

John Wayne storms the ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Free, Hollywood Classic, Kanopy, Paramount+, SVOD, war 07/31/2023 Sean Axmaker

Wayne shows a darker side playing a hard-bitten Marine Sergeant, a damaged man who sacrificed almost everything for the service, in this mix of patriotic drama and grueling war thriller.

Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson present this documentary

‘A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies’ – free on Kanopy

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This 1995 documentary, cowritten and codirected and hosted by Martin Scorsese, is one of the most passionate and informative explorations of classic American cinema.

‘Slightly Scarlet’ – Film rouge on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Mystery, SVOD 02/29/2020 Sean Axmaker

Slightly Scarlet (1956) isn’t well known to even many film buffs but it’s an interesting film noir in lurid Technicolor (call it a film rouge) from veteran director Allan Dwan, who began making films in the early 1910s and directed everything from Douglas Fairbanks action epics to Shirley Temple dramas to comedies to westerns in […]

Blu-ray: Gloria Swanson is ‘Zaza’ and Rudolph Valentino is ‘The Sheik’ and ‘Son of the Sheik’

Blu-ray, DVD, Kino Classics, Kino Lorber, silent film 07/05/2017 Sean Axmaker

Zaza (Kino Lorber) Gloria Swanson plays the music hall star Zaza (1923), Allan Dwan’s spirited silent film adaptation of the 19th century play by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon. This is “the Zaza of today,” reads the introduction, a 20th century version with Swanson as the temperamental star attraction of the top music hall in […]