Tag: Cathy O’Donnell

Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell star in the 1948 film noir classic.

Nicholas Ray’s ‘They Live by Night’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, film noir, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD 08/03/202008/03/2020 Sean Axmaker

“This boy… and this girl… were never properly introduced to the world we live in…,” begins They Live By Night (1948), a bubble of a brief, idealized vision of young love immediately swept away in the urgency and desperation of the prison break in the very next scene. The directorial debut of American filmmaker Nicholas […]

Harold Russell, Dana Andrews, and Fredric March in William Wyler's 1946 drama

‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ – Coming home on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, SVOD 09/29/201703/16/2019 Sean Axmaker

By all rights, the homecoming drama The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) should have been another well intentioned film left to the dated dustbins of history, but World War II vet William Wyler (working from an original Robert Sherwood script) put more soul into this picture than anything else in his career. Clocking in […]