Robert Ryan – Stream On Demand

‘Odds Against Tomorrow’ aren’t good for Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan – free on Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Free, heist, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, SVOD, thriller 11/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Wise directs this heist thriller with a film noir sensibility steerped in hate, anger, and racism. Shelley Winters and Gloria Grahame costar.

‘Caught’ – Cinderella noir on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, socially aware cinema, SVOD 11/09/2022 Sean Axmaker

Melodrama and social commentary meet film noir in this drama of romance, wealth, and power from Max Ophuls, starring James Mason (in his American film debut), Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan.

‘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 07/20/2022 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.

‘The Set-Up’ – Robert Ryan in the great boxing noir on Criterion Channel

!Featured, BritBox, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, sports, SVOD 07/12/2022 Sean Axmaker

Director Robert Wise brings a touch of grace to this intimate boxing drama seeped in the film noir world of corruption, betrayal, and brutality.

Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino star in the film noir by Nicholas Ray

Robert Ryan is ‘On Dangerous Ground’

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 06/07/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ida Lupino costars in this unusual film noir about an angry urban cop tracking a killer in snowy mountain country and confronting his own righteous rage along the journey.

Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden, and Ernest Borgnine star in Sam Peckinpah's western masterpiece 'The Wild Bunch.'

‘The Wild Bunch’ – Sam Peckinpah’s frontier apocalypse

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 05/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

William Holden and Robert Ryan are former partners turned adversaries in this landmark western set on the twilight of the frontier.

Jeffrey Hunter is Jesus in Nicholas Ray's take on the story of Christ

‘King of Kings’ – the 1961 Biblical epic free on Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Easter, Free, historical, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, religion, SVOD 04/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

King of Kings (1961), Nicholas Ray’s epic drama of the story of Christ (and ostensible remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 silent classic), has less spectacle than the other epics of its era but it remains one of the most interesting and perceptive Biblical epics of its era. Narration (by Orson Welles) takes us back […]

Burl Ives and Robert Ryan star in the western noir by Andre de Toth

‘Day of the Outlaw’ – snowbound western noir on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 01/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

Day of the Outlaw (1959), a western set in a snowbound mountain town on the high frontier, is one of the toughest, most tension-filled pictures from Andre de Toth, a studio filmmaker who could be counted on to bring a savage edge to his assignments. The town is already coiled like a spring thanks to […]

Blu-ray: ‘On Dangerous Ground’ on Warner Archive

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, film noir, Warner Archive 01/06/2017 Sean Axmaker

On Dangerous Ground (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) (1952), directed by Nicholas Ray from a script he developed with A.I. Bezzerides and producer John Houseman, opens on the urgent yet fractured dramatic score by Bernard Herrmann, a theme that rushes forward anxiously, pauses with quieter instruments, then jumps again as we watch the nocturnal city streets in […]