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‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ – George Lazenby is 007 on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, MGM+, Paramount+, spies and espionage, thriller 06/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

The one and only James Bond film starring George Lazenby is perhaps the most underrated and easily one of the best. Diana Rigg costars.

Clark Gable, Tully Marshall, Donald Crisp and Jean Harlow in the 1932 MGM classic directed by Victor Fleming

Leaving soon: Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in ‘Red Dust’ on HBO Max

!Featured, adventure, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, Max, pre-code, Romance, SVOD 03/19/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Victor Fleming’s jungle melodrama is as sexy, frank, and grown-up as pre-code cinema gets thanks to the heat of Harlow’s chemistry with Gable

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in the film that won 10 Academy Awards

‘Gone with the Wind’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, Max, SVOD 01/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Winner of 10 Oscars and beloved and revered by generations of filmgoers, this classic showcases the best and worst of old Hollywood.

‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ for Lana Turner and John Garfield on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Max, suspense, SVOD, thriller 11/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

The original film version of James M. Cain’s sultry crime classic of lust and murder is the glossiest film noir ever made.

‘The Tall Target’ – steam noir on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, historical, Hollywood Classic, Politics, spies and espionage, thriller 02/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann’s The Tall Target (1951) is a rare period piece noir. This one is set in 1860 and the tall target of the title is President-elect Abraham Lincoln. Dick Powell plays the lone police detective who believes in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln on his journey to be sworn in as President and, in […]

Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury and Donna Reed star in the film by Albert Lewin

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD 11/23/2020 Sean Axmaker

Made for MGM in 1945, the handsome and elegant The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) is still the best adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel. Hurd Hatfield plays Dorian Gray, a handsome, earnest young man who stops aging after having his portrait painted, and George Sanders is Lord Henry Wotton, the hedonistic cynic who tempts […]

Woody Allen and friend in the comedy co-starring Diane Keaton

Woody Allen’s ‘Love and Death’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/07/2018 Sean Axmaker

In Love and Death (1975), Woody Allen spoofs epic Russian literature, Chekov plays, and Bergman movies with a mix of philosophical vaudeville and Borscht Belt one-liners and sight gags. It was his sixth feature as a director and his third screen appearance with Diane Keaton, who gets as many punchlines as Allen does, and often […]