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Leaving soon: Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the ‘Cry of the City’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert Siodmak directs this crime drama of a desperate gangster and a driven cop, one of his darkest film noirs, seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis

Leaving soon: Richard Conte drives the ‘Thieves’ Highway’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jules Dassin directs this film noir drama set in the cutthroat world of long haul trucking, independent drivers, and the San Francisco produce market run by a crime boss.

Craig Stevens is 'Peter Gunn' in the detective series from Blake Edwards.

‘Peter Gunn’ – Blake Edwards’s suave detective on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Cult TV, DVD, film noir, Streaming TV 01/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

Peter Gunn (1958-1961), the stylish late-fifties private eye series created by Blake Edwards, stars Craig Stevens as TV’s most debonair private-eye, a sardonic small screen Cary Grant with high society tastes and underworld connections. Edwards is far more famous for his comedies than his crime stories but the man had a real flair for noir, from […]

Richard Conte and Hope Emerson in Robert Siodmak's 'Cry of the City'

Blu-ray: ‘Cry of the City’ on Kino Lorber

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, film noir, Kino Lorber 01/03/2017 Sean Axmaker

Cry of the City (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) (1948) is a film noir that should be better known. It’s directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I […]