Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Green Dolphin Street ** (1947, Lana Turner, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 12,515

MGM’s 1947 historical disaster film Green Dolphin Street is an over-busy and unconvincing melodrama set in 19th-century New Zealand, where sisters Lana Turner and Donna Reed are vying for Richard Hart, romantic rival to Van […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

The Green Cockatoo *** (1937, John Mills, René Ray, Robert Newton, Charles Oliver, Bruce Seton) – Classic Movie Review 12,514

The entertaining 1937 British crime drama film The Green Cockatoo stars John Mills as a song and dance man trying to avenge his brother (Robert Newton)’s death at the hands of vicious crooks. ‘She Lost […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

Lie With Me [Arrête avec tes mensonges] *** (2022, Guillaume De Tonquédec, Victor Belmondo, Jérémy Gillet, Julien De Saint Jean) – Classic Movie Review 12,513

Olivier Peyon’s moving, powerfully emotional 2022 French drama film Lie With Me [Arrête avec tes mensonges] stars Guillaume De Tonquédec as a gay novelist who returns to his home town after many years and meets […]

May, 25

Esther and the King ** (1960, Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O’Dea) – Classic Movie Review 12,512

Raoul Walsh’s American-Italian 1960 biblical epic film Esther and the King stars Joan Collins, no less, as the Jewish heroine Esther, who marries the recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus (Richard Egan) to help her people […]

May, 24

The Witches [Le Streghe] **** (1967, Silvana Mangano, Clint Eastwood, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Leslie French, Alberto Sordi, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Pietro Tordi, Laura Betti, Helmut Berger) – Classic Movie Review 12,511

The 1967 Italian anthology film The Witches [Le Streghe] is a most enjoyable showcase for the talents of movie goddess Silvana Mangano in five star roles in five comic stories about witches. It is a […]

May, 20

White Cradle Inn [High Fury] ** (1947, Madeleine Carroll, Michael Rennie, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 12,510

The 1947 British drama film White Cradle Inn [High Fury] stars Madeleine Carroll and Michael Rennie as an unhappy Swiss married couple who face a moral dilemma when a French evacuee boy wants to stay […]

May, 20

Flic Story *** (1975, Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger, André Pousse) – Classic Movie Review 12,509

The tense and moody 1975 French real-life crime thriller film Flic Story stars Alain Delon as police detective Roger Borniche and Jean-Louis Trintignant as Borniche, the gangster and killer he hunts down for nine years. […]

May, 19

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