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Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are bound for the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 01/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

This excellent 1957 film from director Delmer Daves is a taut, austere western in the ‘High Noon’ mode but with a film noir sensibility.

‘The Dirty Dozen’ – the original World War II caper on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Netflix, SVOD, war 12/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Lee Marvin leads twelve military convicts (including Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, and John Cassavetes) on a suicide mission behind enemy lines in this testosterone-fueled classic.

John Wayne storms the ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, war 05/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Wayne shows a darker side playing a hard-bitten Marine Sergeant, a damaged man who sacrificed almost everything for the service, in this mix of patriotic drama and grueling war thriller.

Audie Murphy stars in Don Siegel's 'The Gun Runners,' adapted from the Hemingway novel

‘The Gun Runners’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie 09/05/2016 Sean Axmaker

Don Siegel’s low-budget 1958 adventure The Gun Runners is not exactly a remake of To Have and Have Not but it is the third screen adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. Audie Murphy takes the lead here as independent skipper Sam Martin, who rents his cabin cruiser to tourists looking to fish the waters of […]