Wallace Ford – Stream On Demand

Leaving soon: James Stewart is ‘The Man from Laramie’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 07/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann directs this frontier “King Lear,” a western drama of splintered families and filial betrayal set on the American plain.

‘He Ran All the Way’ – John Garfield’s last stand on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, thriller 11/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Garfield gives one of his fiercest performances in his last film role in this film noir made in the shadow of the communist witch-hunts.

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

John Garfield hits ‘The Breaking Point’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, thriller 11/16/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

The second screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘To Have and Have Not’ adds a post-war setting and a working class angle to the story. Patrical Neal costars and Micheal Curtiz directs.

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

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

Humphrey Bogart and Lizbeth Scott star in the 1947 film noir directed by John Cromwell

Humphrey Bogart in ‘Dead Reckoning’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Mystery, SVOD, thriller 09/09/2018 Sean Axmaker

Any resemblance between Dead Reckoning (1947) and classic hard-boiled Humphrey Bogart classics The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep is anything but coincidental (“A guy’s buddy gets killed, he oughta do something about it,” Bogie explains in an line from the Sam Spade playbook) in this murder mystery of deception and double crosses. Narrating in […]