Karl Malden – Stream On Demand

Rod Steiger and Marlon Brandon in the Oscar-winning film by Elia Kazan

Last chance: Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Elia Kazan’s drama set on the mob-dominated docks of New York costars Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, and Eva Marie Saint and won eight Academy Awards.

Last chance: Dana Andrews goes ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, SVOD 01/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Otto Preminger’s 1950 noir reunites Andrews and Gene Tierney, the stars of Laura, for a more streetwise cop drama with a bare-knuckle attitude.

Karl Malden and James Franciscus in the giallo by Dario Argento

Dario Argento’s ‘Cat O’Nine Tails’ on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, giallo, Halloween, horror, suspense 05/12/2021 Sean Axmaker

The Cat O’Nine Tails (Italy, 1971), Dario Argento’s second feature, follows up his directorial debut The Bird With the Crystal Plumage in genre, style and “animal” theme (stretched into a trilogy with Four Flies on Gray Velvet). In Bird, Argento explores, pushes at, and plays with the mechanics of suspense and murder mystery spectacle in […]

Burt Lancaster is the ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, socially aware cinema, SVOD 08/09/2020 Sean Axmaker

Filmmaker John Frankenheimer earned his first major big screen success with Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), his third theatrical feature and his second collaboration with producer/star Burt Lancaster (they would make five films together all told). Lancaster delivers an angry, brooding performance as real life criminal Robert Stroud, a violent killer who developed into an internationally […]