Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Holiday for Sinners * (1952, Gig Young, Keenan Wynn, Janice Rule, Richard Anderson, William Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 12,506

MGM’s well-meaning 1952 drama film Holiday for Sinners is produced by John Houseman, and stars Gig Young, Keenan Wynn and Janice Rule.  Director Gerald Mayer’s well-meaning 1952 MGM American drama film Holiday for Sinners is […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

Inside Straight ** (1951, David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge, Paula Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 12,505

Director Gerald Mayer’s well acted 1951 MGM American Western  film Inside Straight stars the good team of David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge and Paula Raymond. Inside Straight is a minor Western melodrama of […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

The Honeymoon Machine *** (1961, Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Weston, Jack Mullaney, Marcel Hillaire) – Classic Movie Review 12,504

Steve McQueen stepped in when Cary Grant turned down the 1961 comedy film The Honeymoon Machine. McQueen later regretted the decision, and walked out of the first public sneak preview, saying he’d never to work […]

May, 11

The Horizontal Lieutenant * (1962, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus) – Classic Movie Review 12,503

MGM’s 1962 romantic comedy war film The Horizontal Lieutenant pairs likeable Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss for the fourth and last time. Director Richard Thorpe’s 1962 American romantic comedy war film The Horizontal Lieutenant stars Jim Hutton, […]

May, 11

Bachelor in Paradise ** (1961, Bob Hope, Lana Turner,Janis Paige, Don Porter, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver) – Classic Movie Review 12,502

Bachelor in Paradise is an old-fashioned (even for 1961), amiable star vehicle for Bob Hope. It is Hope’s first film with MGM and Lana Turner’s first romantic comedy in many years. Director Jack Arnold’s 1961 […]

May, 11

Operation Hyacinth [Hiacynt] ***½ (2021, Tomasz Ziętek, Hubert Miłkowski, Marek Kalita) – Classic Movie Review 12,501

The disturbing and revealing 2021 Polish thriller film Operation Hyacinth [Hiacynt] stars Tomasz Ziętek as an earnest young policeman assigned a case of a serial murderer targeting homosexuals in Warsaw.  Director Piotr Domalewski’s disturbing and […]

May, 09

Advance to the Rear [Company of Cowards] *** (1964, Glenn Ford, Melvyn Douglas, Stella Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 12,500

The nifty, vivacious and amusing 1964 spoof Western film Advance to the Rear [Company of Cowards] stars Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas. Director George Marshall’s 1964 film Advance to the Rear [Company of […]

May, 09

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