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‘Anatomy of a Murder’ – James Stewart for the defense on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, legal drama, National Film Registry, Venice winner 08/17/2023 Sean Axmaker

Stewart plays a country lawyer who covers his sharp legal mind behind a folksy manner in Otto Premingers crackling legal thriller, costarring Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, and George C. Scott.

Leaving soon: James Stewart is ‘The Man from Laramie’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 07/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann directs this frontier “King Lear,” a western drama of splintered families and filial betrayal set on the American plain.

‘The Naked Spur’ – James Stewart hunts Robert Ryan on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 06/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

The third western that director Anthony Mann made with James Stewart may be their best and certainly their edgiest and most intense frontier thriller.

‘Winchester ’73’ – James Stewart is out for revenge on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 05/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

The first of eight films that Stewart made with director Anthony Mann is a tight, lean revenge thriller, practically a film noir on the frontier.

‘Bell, Book and Candle’ – James Stewart, Kim Novak and a touch of witchcraft on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adapted from the stage, Blu-ray, Christmas, Classic Movie, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Romance, SVOD 12/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

This bewitching romantic comedy about a human bachelor and modern day witch in Greenwich village is a jazzy fantasy with a beatnik sensibility.

Blu-ray: ‘Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection’ on Universal

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, suspense 11/29/2017 Sean Axmaker

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray) – The box set of 15 Alfred Hitchcock pictures made between 1942 and 1976 (featuring films from Paramount, Warner Bros, and MGM as well as Universal Studios) expands on the 2012 Blu-ray box set Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection with two bonus DVDs highlighting Hitchcock’s […]