Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "engagement"

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Goodbye, Columbus *** (1969, Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman) – Classic Movie Review 10,143

Director Larry Peerce’s 1969 comedy drama of class differences Goodbye, Columbus stars Richard Benjamin as librarian Neil Klugman, who romances rich gal Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw) in 1950s New York suburbs, and upsets her parents. […]

Aug, 07

La Tendre Ennemie [Tender Enemy] *** (1936, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana) – Classic Movie Review 7502

Co-writer/ producer/ director Max Ophüls’s diverting 1936 French film La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) tells the charming tale about three dead men, ghosts who encounter each other again in the afterlife and end up dissecting their […]

Aug, 26

Grand Theft Auto ** (1977, Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Elizabeth Rogers, Barry Cahill, Rance Howard, Paul Linke, Marion Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7108

Two eloping teenagers pinch a Rolls-Royce to get them to their wedding in Las Vegas in style in Ron Howard’s director debut. Ron Howard and Nancy Morgan star in the 1977 action crime comedy Grand Theft Auto […]

Jun, 01

A Free Soul *** (1931, Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable) – Classic Movie Review 6420

Director Clarence Brown’s creaky but enjoyable 1931 courtroom crime romantic drama is most memorable for its cast – Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard and Clark Gable – and for Barrymore taking the Best Actor Oscar. […]

Dec, 17

Bedtime for Bonzo *** (1951, Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Peggy) – Classic Movie Review 5660

Director Frederick de Cordova’s 1951 farcical comedy Bedtime for Bonzo has a lot to answer for as the film that convinced its star Ronald Reagan to go into politics. For here is the infamous daft […]

Jun, 24

So Dark the Night ***½ (1946, Steven Geray, Ann Codee, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Egon Brecher, Helen Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 5631

Director Joseph H Lewis’s stylish 1946 low-budget noir thriller So Dark the Night stars dashing Steven Geray as Henri Cassin, the Parisian copper who comes a cropper when he takes a takes a rare holiday […]

Jun, 18

The Mortal Storm ***** (1940, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 2701

Director Frank Borzage’s strong, sensitive and significant 1940 drama finds the MGM studio in full patriotic mode, doing its bit for the free world by trying to stir up the wartime American public against the […]

Jul, 16

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