Glenn Ford – 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, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, 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.

Franco Nero, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Sam Peckinpah, Lance Henriksen, and Glenn Ford star in this flamboyantly incoherent 'Exorcist' knock-off from Italy directed by Giulio Paradisi

‘The Visitor’ – crazy Italian cult horror on MUBI, Shudder, and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, horror, Kanopy, MUBI, Shudder, SVOD 04/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

This wildly inchoherent Italian knock-off of ‘The Exorcist’ is a cult horror that plays as a satanic thriller by way of a cosmic battle.

Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready, directed by Charles Vidor

Rita Hayworth is ‘Gilda’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 03/16/2020 Sean Axmaker

Rita Hayworth is at her most iconic as the forties sex-bomb in Gilda (1946), a film noir classic co-starring Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell, an American tough guy in Buenos Aires, and George Macready as Ballin Mundson, the owner of a nightclub and illegal casino who hires Johnny as his club manager. Just as in […]

‘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 […]