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‘They Were Expendable’ – defending the Pacific in World War II on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Based on a nonfiction book, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, Max, SVOD, war 05/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Ford directs John Wayne and Robert Montgomery in this somber classic about the devastating early Pacific campaign after the declaration of war in 1941, a drama about the losses before the victories.

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet in the film adapted from the Dashiell Hammett novel by John Huston.

‘The Maltese Falcon’ – the stuff dreams are made of on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Max, Mystery, National Film Registry, remake, SVOD 11/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade in John Huston’s note-perfect adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic novel in this pioneering film noir classic.

John Wayne is ‘Hondo’ in the classic Louis L’Amour western on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Paramount+, SVOD, western 10/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

The leathery frontier drama costars Geraldine Page as a lonely homesteader left alone with her son in the midst of war between the Apaches and the Cavalry.

Last chance: ‘Swamp Water’ – Jean Renoir heads south on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, Hollywood Classic 09/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

Dana Andrews is a trapper in the no man’s land of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp in the first American film by the great French director Jean Renoir.

‘Drums Along the Mohawk’ – John Ford’s Colonial America on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, historical, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 07/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

John Ford made his Technicolor debut with Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), a stunning pre-western about young settlers in the rich forest lands of the Mohawk Valley during the Colonial era. Claudette Colbert takes top billing as the cultured wife and Henry Fonda is her salt-of-the-Earth husband who takes her out of the city and […]

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.

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 […]