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Leaving soon: ‘Man Hunt’ – Fritz Lang’s anti-Nazi thriller on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, spies and espionage, SVOD, war 03/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

Walter Pidgeon stars as a big game hunter who goes after the biggest game of all – Adolph Hitler – in this 1941 film noir set in the early days of World War II.

Last chance: ‘Swamp Water’ – Jean Renoir heads south on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, Hollywood Classic 09/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

Dana Andrews is a trapper in the no man’s land of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp in the first American film by the great French director Jean Renoir.

David Carradine and Barbara Hershey in Martin Scorsese's "Boxcar Bertha"

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Boxcar Bertha’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, historical, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Barbara Hershey stars as the real-life depression era orphan who tramped the Deep South with a Union organizer (played by David Carradine).

‘Drums Along the Mohawk’ – John Ford’s Colonial America on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, historical, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 07/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

John Ford made his Technicolor debut with Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), a stunning pre-western about young settlers in the rich forest lands of the Mohawk Valley during the Colonial era. Claudette Colbert takes top billing as the cultured wife and Henry Fonda is her salt-of-the-Earth husband who takes her out of the city and […]

John Wayne , Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Donald Meek, Louise Platt, directed by John Ford

John Ford’s ‘Stagecoach’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, Max, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 06/30/2020 Sean Axmaker

Stagecoach (1939) – John Ford’s classic western is a landmark of the genre for so many reasons: mature, classically constructed and superbly directed, it made a star of John Wayne, revitalized the western genre, and introduced Ford to the breathtaking landscape of Monument Valley, which would become the mythic backdrop of his west. It was […]