Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Kentucky *** (1938, Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7158

Director David Butler’s 1938 Kentucky is simple, clean-cut romantic and sporting drama, but it is still quite good vintage entertainment. There is rivalry at the Kentucky horse-racing farms in this soapy but amusing story of […]

Jun, 12 · in Uncategorized

The Pride of the Yankees **** (1942, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 7157

Director Sam Wood’s 1942 biographical drama The Pride of the Yankees stars an ideally cast Gary Cooper, in one of his most fondly remembered roles, who has no trouble at all stirring up the emotions […]

Jun, 12 · in Uncategorized

The Cowboy and the Lady *** (1938, Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Fuzzy Knight, Henry Kolker, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7156

Merle Oberon stars as politician’s daughter Mary Smith, a scatty, lonely socialite who masquerades as a maid and falls for lean, outspoken rodeo rider Stretch (Gary Cooper), unaware of her identity, in director H C Potter’s light-hearted, featherweight […]

Jun, 12

Westward Ho, the Wagons! *** (1956, Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 7155

Director William Beaudine’s 1956 Westward Ho, the Wagons! is a Walt Disney Wild West adventure for family consumption that lacks both the kind of vim and grit we expect from Westerns but it is entirely […]

Jun, 11

The Westerner **** (1940, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker, Dana Andrews, Chill Wills) – Classic Movie Review 7154

Director William Wyler’s 1940 The Westerner stars Gary Cooper as moody, heroic cow-hand Cole Harden, who battles against dreaded hanging judge Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) in an epic classic Western managed outstandingly well by director […]

Jun, 11

Westward Ho ** (1935, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn, Jr, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7153

Westward Ho (1935) is John Wayne’s first film for Republic Pictures and it is also the studio’s first production. It was a hit and hugely profitable. It cost only $35,000, or possibly only $17,000 (depending on the […]

Jun, 11

Rainbow Valley ** (1935, John Wayne, Lucile Browne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Jay Wilsey, LeRoy Mason) – Classic Movie Review 7152

John Wayne stars in Rainbow Valley (1935) as John Martin, who is revealed as a government undercover agent by gunman bad guy Butch Galt (Buffalo Bill Jr, aka Jay Wilsey), in director Robert N Bradbury’s modest, quickly […]

Jun, 11

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