Tag: Jack Lambert

The original ‘The Killers’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action / Crime, based on a short story, Blu-ray, caper, Classic, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 09/09/202009/09/2020 Sean Axmaker

The first 15 minutes of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946) remains the most the most faithful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway ever put on screen. Two gunmen from the city (Charles McGraw and William Conrad) take over a small town diner to wait for their target. When he doesn’t show, they take the hit to him, […]

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

‘Day of the Outlaw’ – snowbound western noir on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, SVOD, western 07/01/202007/06/2020 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 […]