Cornel Wilde – Stream On Demand

Last chance: ‘Leave Her to Heaven’ – Gene Tierney’s fatal attraction on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, psychological drama, suspense 09/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

John Stahl’s gorgeous thriller is part Technicolor film noir and part dark romantic melodrama with a psychotic beauty at its center.

Last chance: Humphrey Bogart hits the ‘High Sierra’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 07/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Raoul Walsh helped the veteran Warner Bros. actor become a leading man in this tough. smart crime drama, costarring Ida Lupino as a hardened survivor who falls for the veteran crook.

‘No Blade of Grass’ – Surviving the end of the world on HBO Max

!Featured, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Max, Science Fiction, SVOD, thriller 12/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

Cornel Wilde’s grim No Blade of Grass (1970) is a forgotten dystopian classic due for rediscovery. Gritty and brutal, built on fears of ecological devastation through pollution and overcrowding (with hints of genetic manipulation gone bad), this 1970 end-of-the-world thriller seems to have gotten lost in the overcrowded apocalypse now science fiction cinema of the […]

‘The Naked Prey’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a true story, BritBox, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, thriller 03/31/2020 Sean Axmaker

The Naked Prey (1966), Cornel Wilde’s take on the Most Dangerous Game survival drama, may not be the first but it’s arguably the definitive, most visceral and primal example of the genre. Inspired by an account on the American frontier but shifted to 19th century colonial South Africa, the simple story begins with a bush […]