Robert Stack – Stream On Demand

Robert Hays and Julie Haggerty lead the cast in the disaster movie farce from David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams

‘Airplane!’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, National Film Registry, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

The crazy spoof of disaster movies, a mix of old school vaudeville, Looney Tunes cartoon gags, and “Mad” magazine irreverence, has my vote for the funniest film ever made.

‘Written on the Wind’ – the bad and the beautiful on Criterion Channel

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Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.

John Wayne stars in the aviation drama classic directed by William Wellman

John Wayne pilots ‘The High and the Mighty’ on SVOD and DVD

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 06/03/2015 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

The High and the Mighty was the biggest hit of 1954 and nominated for six Academy Awards (it won for Dmitri Tiomkin’s memorable score). Seen today, this lavish aviation drama falls squarely between Stagecoach and Airport, a large ensemble drama about a mechanical crisis on a Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight where every passenger has a story […]