Noah Beery Jr. – Stream On Demand

John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in the 1948 western classic by Howard Hawks

‘Red River’ – the great cattle drive epic on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, MGM+, National Film Registry, Paramount+, SVOD, western 03/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Wayne and Montgomery Clift star in Howard Hawks’ classic western, which reimagines ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ as a frontier epic.

Cary Grant in ‘Only Angels Have Wings’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, Romance, SVOD 08/02/2020 Sean Axmaker

If you love movies, I mean really love the glory of Hollywood moviemaking and star power and the joys of wondrous stories, then you surely Only Angels Have Wings (1939), the quintessential Howard Hawks adventure of male bonding and tough love in a world where there may be no tomorrow. If you haven’t fallen for […]

‘Jubal’ – Frontier Othello on VOD and Criterion Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 06/25/2019 Sean Axmaker

Delmer Daves was a Hollywood pro with a long career and an impressive filmography when he made Jubal (1956). A screenwriter turned director, Daves moved easily between all genres—war pictures, romances, westerns, Biblical epics, and a few noir-inflected dramas—and oddly enough found his biggest success in glossy melodrama A Summer Place, but I think he […]