Felicia Farr – Stream On Demand

Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are bound for the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 01/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

This excellent 1957 film from director Delmer Daves is a taut, austere western in the ‘High Noon’ mode but with a film noir sensibility.

Dean Martin in ‘Kiss Me, Stupid’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a play, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, DVD, music, SVOD 03/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Billy Wilder was a master at sneaking sex into films like The Apartment and Irma la Douce in the years before the ratings system, but this is his most gleefully cynical and brash sex comedy Kiss Me, Stupid (1965) was so maligned on release it almost sunk Billy Wilder’s career. Dean Martin plays a parody […]

‘Jubal’ – Frontier Othello on VOD and Criterion Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 06/25/2019 Sean Axmaker

Delmer Daves was a Hollywood pro with a long career and an impressive filmography when he made Jubal (1956). A screenwriter turned director, Daves moved easily between all genres—war pictures, romances, westerns, Biblical epics, and a few noir-inflected dramas—and oddly enough found his biggest success in glossy melodrama A Summer Place, but I think he […]