Robert Siodmak – Stream On Demand

Leaving soon: ‘Phantom Lady’ – a Girl Friday turns detective on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Mystery, SVOD 04/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert Siodmak made his first indelible mark on the film noir genre with this low budget classic starring Ella Raines and Franchot Tone.

Leaving soon: The original ‘The Killers’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a short story, Blu-ray, caper, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 04/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner becames stars in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir classic, a caper twisted by betrayal, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.

Leaving soon: Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the ‘Cry of the City’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert Siodmak directs this crime drama of a desperate gangster and a driven cop, one of his darkest film noirs, seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis

‘People on Sunday’ on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Documentary, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Classics, Max, Romance, silent film, SVOD 10/30/2018 Sean Axmaker

This delightful, effervescent rarity from the late silent era helped launch the careers of filmmakers Billy Wilder, Fred Zinneman, and Robert Siodmak.

Richard Conte and Hope Emerson in Robert Siodmak's 'Cry of the City'

Blu-ray: ‘Cry of the City’ on Kino Lorber

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, film noir, Kino Lorber 01/03/2017 Sean Axmaker

Cry of the City (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) (1948) is a film noir that should be better known. It’s directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I […]