Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Ex-Mrs Bradford **** (1936, William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, Grant Mitchell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Reicher) – Classic Movie Review 6864

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1936 crime caper The Ex-Mrs Bradford is entertaining and often wittily written, with much of the urbane style and zesty handling of the best Thirties screwball comedy thrillers. It stars the strong team […]

Mar, 27 · in Uncategorized

Lady of the Tropics ** (1939, Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 6863

Hedy Lamarr stars as the tragic titular Lady of the Tropics and Robert Taylor plays playboy Bill Carey who woos her, despite her second-class legal status as a half-caste beauty. Norbert Brodine was Oscar nominated for Best […]

Mar, 26 · in Uncategorized

Samson and Delilah *** (1949, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering) – Classic Movie Review 6862

Hedy Lamarr appears as Delilah opposite Victor Mature’s Samson in Cecil B DeMille’s lurid romantic biblical epic film Samson and Delilah in 1949. Lamarr has a great time playing ‘HISTORY’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TREACHEROUS WOMAN!’  It […]

Mar, 26

Experiment Perilous *** (1944, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Lukas, George Brent, Albert Dekker, Margaret Wycherly, Julia Dean, Carl Esmond, Olive Blakeney) – Classic Movie Review 6,861

Jacques Tourneur’s stylish, eerie and entertaining 1944 Gothic romantic film noir thriller Experiment Perilous is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter. It stars the fine team of Hedy Lamarr, Paul Lukas and George Brent. […]

Mar, 26

Ecstasy [Extase] [Ekstase] *** (1933, Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz) – Classic Movie Review 6860

  The young Viennese-born Hedy Lamarr (then billed under her real name as Hedy Kiesler) shocked the world when she appeared (discreetly) nude in director Gustav Machatý’s straightforward 1932 Czech erotic love story. The story is […]

Mar, 26

Experiment in Terror [Grip of Fear] **** (1962, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers) – Classic Movie Review 6859

Director Blake Edwards is best known for his farcical comedies and especially the Pink Panther movies, but here in 1962 he makes a first-rate job of this excellent San Francisco location-shot suspense thriller about a […]

Mar, 26

Esther Waters [Sin of Esther Waters] *** (1947, Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton, Mary Clare) – Classic Movie Review 6858

Producer-directors Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud’s 1947 melodrama takes us back to the bad old days of the 19th century when sweet young kitchen maids like Esther Waters (Kathleen Ryan) could be used and abused […]

Mar, 26

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