Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Daddy Long Legs *** (1955, Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 6747

Director Jean Negulesco’s 1955 musical stars Fred Astaire as middle-aged millionaire Jervis Pendelton III, who goes to Hollywood’s idea of France, where he is naturally enchanted by waif-like young orphan Julie André (Leslie Caron). Negulesco’s pleasant […]

Feb, 27 · in Articles

The Flame of New Orleans *** (1941, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 6746

Director René Clair’s 1941 romance stars the divine Marlene Dietrich, who enchants as Claire Ledeux, a beautiful New Orleans adventuress who is juggling two men. The Flame of New Orleans was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art […]

Feb, 27 · in Articles

Flame of Barbary Coast ** (1945, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 6745

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]

Feb, 27

Dakota ** (1945, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6744

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s robustly performed, competently handled but unfocused and unexciting 1945 Republic studios Western stars John Wayne, Vera [Hruba] Ralston and Walter Brennan. John Wayne stars as sagebrush drifter John Devlin, who falls for […]

Feb, 27

White Hunter Black Heart *** (1990, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell) – Classic Movie Review 6743

In his first star character role, aged 60, Clint Eastwood achieves a bravura sustained impersonation of wayward  legendary movie director John Huston who in 1950 sets out, distracted and obsessive, on a quest to shoot […]

Feb, 27

Vigil in the Night *** (1940, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 6,742

The 1940 romantic drama film Vigil in the Night stars screen comedienne Carole Lombard, who is outstanding in a serious role as Anne Lee, a devoted young nurse in an English hospital. Director George Stevens’s […]

Feb, 26

Daisy Kenyon *** (1947, Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Ruth Warrick) – Classic Movie Review 6741

Joan Crawford has a great, overwrought time in 20th Century Fox’s 1947 romantic-drama film Daisy Kenyon, a heated melodramatic story of a romantic triangle. The starry cast of Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Ruth […]

Feb, 26

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