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Leaving soon: James Stewart is ‘The Man from Laramie’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 07/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann directs this frontier “King Lear,” a western drama of splintered families and filial betrayal set on the American plain.

‘The Naked Spur’ – James Stewart hunts Robert Ryan on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 06/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

The third western that director Anthony Mann made with James Stewart may be their best and certainly their edgiest and most intense frontier thriller.

‘Winchester ’73’ – James Stewart is out for revenge on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 05/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

The first of eight films that Stewart made with director Anthony Mann is a tight, lean revenge thriller, practically a film noir on the frontier.

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.

‘The Tall Target’ – steam noir on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, historical, Hollywood Classic, Politics, spies and espionage, thriller 02/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann’s The Tall Target (1951) is a rare period piece noir. This one is set in 1860 and the tall target of the title is President-elect Abraham Lincoln. Dick Powell plays the lone police detective who believes in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln on his journey to be sworn in as President and, in […]

Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey and Walter Huston star in Anthony Mann's western

Barbara Stanwyck in ‘The Furies’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Hulu, SVOD, western 05/18/2019 Sean Axmaker

The Furies (1950), the second western from genre giant Anthony Mann (after Devil’s Doorway) and his first big-budget, large-canvas production after an apprenticeship in low-budget thrillers, is a genre hybrid: a psychological western by way of a Gothic melodrama, with a dark, shadowy style right out of Mann’s earlier film noirs. Barbara Stanwyck is Vance […]