‘Night and the City’ – Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney on Criterion Channel and Hoopla !Featured, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Free, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, international noir, SVOD, thriller 07/07/202307/06/2023 Sean Axmaker Widmark plays one of cinema’s great heels in Jules Dassin’s superb film noir set in the London underworld of hustlers and gangsters after dark.
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 09/25/202209/25/2022 Sean Axmaker John Stahl’s gorgeous thriller is part Technicolor film noir and part dark romantic melodrama with a psychotic beauty at its center.
Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney are ‘The Ghost and Mrs. Muir’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Romance, supernatural, SVOD 02/13/202202/12/2022 Sean Axmaker Less ghost story than romantic fantasy of impossible love, this moody classic from director Joseph Mankiewicz is a refreshingly mature and down to earth bittersweet romance.
Last chance: Dana Andrews goes ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, SVOD 01/23/202201/22/2022 Sean Axmaker Otto Preminger’s 1950 noir reunites Andrews and Gene Tierney, the stars of Laura, for a more streetwise cop drama with a bare-knuckle attitude.
‘Laura’ – The silkiest film noir of all on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, suspense, SVOD 12/25/202101/08/2022 Sean Axmaker Gene Tierney is the title character and Dana Andrews the driven cop in the romantic murder mystery from director Otto Preminger.
