Tag: Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal, John Garfield, and Juano Hernandez in a film by Michael Curtiz

John Garfield hits ‘The Breaking Point’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic 12/12/201912/12/2019 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

The Breaking Point (1950), the second of three big screen adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, stars John Garfield as Harry Morgan, the role that Humphrey Bogart played in the original. The Howard Hawks film took great liberties with Hemingway’s story. This version is more faithful but takes its own liberties. Harry […]

Patricia Neal, Michael Rennie, and Gort, directed by Robert Wise.

‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ – the original science fiction classic

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, Science Fiction, SVOD 12/23/201703/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

The original The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) remains the most thoughtful of the first contact films. Michael Rennie makes a striking American film debut as Klaatu, the well-spoken stranger from outer space who lands his saucer in Washington D.C. to speak to the world’s leaders. They shoot first, of course, and Klaatu escapes […]