Don Siegel – Stream On Demand

Kevin McCarthy stars in Don Siegel's 1956 'Invasion of the Body Snatcher'

‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ – the original pod people on Paramount+ and Kanopy

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Halloween, horror, Kanopy, Paramount+, Science Fiction, SVOD, thriller 10/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

Don Siegel’s original version of the oft-filmed science fiction horror is still the most insidious alien invasion film ever made.

Clint Eastwood is ‘Dirty Harry’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, HBO Max, Netflix, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood transformed his western persona into an urban cowboy for the mean streets of our urban world in this iconic 1971 crime classic.

‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, SVOD, thriller 01/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

It may not have been obvious at the time but Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) was a perfect match of film and filmmaker. Don Siegel later made a name for himself with his gritty Clint Eastwood collaborations (not to mention his brilliant Invasion of the Body Snatchers) but was just a promising journeyman director […]

Audie Murphy stars in Don Siegel's 'The Gun Runners,' adapted from the Hemingway novel

‘The Gun Runners’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie 09/05/2016 Sean Axmaker

Don Siegel’s low-budget 1958 adventure The Gun Runners is not exactly a remake of To Have and Have Not but it is the third screen adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. Audie Murphy takes the lead here as independent skipper Sam Martin, who rents his cabin cruiser to tourists looking to fish the waters of […]

Steve McQueen in Don Siegel's 1962 World War II drama 'Hell is for Heroes'

‘Hell is for Heroes’ on Netflix

!Featured, Classic Movie, Hollywood Classic, Netflix 08/25/2015 Sean Axmaker

A decade before he directed Dirty Harry and The Shootist, Don Siegel brought his tough world view and crisp, no-nonsense direction to Hell is for Heroes (1962), a quintessential World War II drama of an undermanned American platoon in France holding off a German advance through sheer bluff and bravery. Steve McQueen is curt and […]