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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 film noir classic directed by Howard Hawks

Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD 05/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.

Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby'

The original ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, horror, Hulu, Paramount+, suspense, SVOD, thriller 02/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Roman Polanski’s American directing debut is an urban horror classic and a master class in paranoia.

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet in the film adapted from the Dashiell Hammett novel by John Huston.

‘The Maltese Falcon’ – the stuff dreams are made of on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, remake, SVOD 01/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade in John Huston’s note-perfect adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic novel in this pioneering film noir classic.

Victor Mature stars in the classic film noir

‘I Wake Up Screaming’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Kino Lorber, suspense, SVOD, thriller 11/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Victor Mature and Betty Grable star in one of the films that established the distinctive style and attitude of film noir, and one of the greatest movie titles of classic cinema.

Burl Ives and Robert Ryan star in the western noir by Andre de Toth

‘Day of the Outlaw’ – snowbound western noir on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 01/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

Day of the Outlaw (1959), a western set in a snowbound mountain town on the high frontier, is one of the toughest, most tension-filled pictures from Andre de Toth, a studio filmmaker who could be counted on to bring a savage edge to his assignments. The town is already coiled like a spring thanks to […]