Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

From Hell to Heaven *** (1933, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Sidney Blackmer, Adrienne Ames, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 12,615

The 1933 ensemble drama film From Hell to Heaven is Paramount’s answer to Grand Hotel, set at a racetrack hotel where Colly Tanner (Carole Lombard) bets her virtue on a nag. ‘PANORAMIC DRAMA OF HUMAN GREED […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

We’re Not Dressing **** (1934, Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Leon Errol, Ethel Merman) – Classic Movie Review 12,614

Paramount Pictures’ 1934 screwball musical comedy film We’re Not Dressing stars Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Ethel Merman, and is based on the 1902 J M Barrie play The Admirable Crichton. Director Norman […]

Aug, 18 · in Reviews

Norwegian Dream ***½ (2023, Hubert Milkowski, Karl Bekele Steinland, Jakub Sierenberg, Øyvind Brandtzæg, Izabella Dudziak, Runar Koteng Frønes) – Classic Movie Review 12,613

Hubert Milkowski stars in the powerful and insightful 2023 film Norwegian Dream as Polish immigrant Robert, who runs from homophobic Poland to work in a fish processing factory in Norway, where he falls in love […]

Aug, 17

Julia Misbehaves *** (1948, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford, Cesar Romero, Lucile Watson, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 12,612

MGM’s 1948 romantic comedy film Julia Misbehaves stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in the sixth of their nine films. Elizabeth Taylor turned 16 during filming and gets her first onscreen kiss, from Peter Lawford, […]

Aug, 16

Bulldog Jack [Alias Bulldog Drummond] *** (1934, Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Claude Hulbert, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 12,611

Jack Hulbert is on best exuberant form as a man-about-town who masquerades as Bulldog Drummond to solve a British Museum heist by a gang based in a shut-down London Tube station, in the bright and […]

Aug, 16

Scandal at Scourie ** (1953, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Agnes Moorehead, Donna Corcoran ) – Classic Movie Review 12,610

MGM’s 1953 American drama film Scandal at Scourie stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in their ninth and final on-screen collaboration. It was filmed in Technicolor on location in Canada. Director Jean Negulesco’s 1953 American Technicolor […]

Aug, 15

Blossoms In the Dust *** (1941, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 12,609

MGM’s carefully crafted, heart-tugging 1941 biographical film Blossoms in the Dust stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in the first of their nine movie collaborations. It sparked Garson’s star career. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1941 MGM […]

Aug, 15

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