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Fay Wray in the ape's paw in the original 1933 classic

The original ‘King Kong’ on HBO Max

!Featured, adventure, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, giant monsters, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 06/25/202006/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

King Kong (1933) is the king of the jungle of giant creature features. The acting and the dialogue verges on kitsch, but the production from explorers, adventurers, and real-life adventure filmmaking pioneers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack is still awe-inspiring and the special effects of Willis O’Brien, groundbreaking in their day, are beautifully […]

Randolph Scott in ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, adventure, Amazon Prime, Classic, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD, western 12/23/201812/23/2018 Sean Axmaker

The 1936 version of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans stars Randolph Scott stars as trapper and frontiersman Hawkeye. As in the novel, the Caucasian Hawkeye travels with Chingahook (Robert Barrat), the last chief of the Mohican tribe, and Uncas (Phillip Reed), Chingahook’s son, and refuses to join the war against the French […]