Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "old flame"

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Take One False Step *** (1949, William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 11,727

‘Who was the last man in Cathy’s life?’ The goodish 1949 film noir crime thriller Take One False Step stars a stalwart William Powell and and a sexy young Shelley Winters.  ‘Who was the last […]

Nov, 17

The Moderns *** (1988, Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 11,556

Director Alan Rudolph’s 1988 film The Moderns is an offbeat, civilised, romantic movie about Americans in 1920s Paris, with a miscast Keith Carradine out of his depth as art faker Nick Hart, an ex-patriate American […]

Sep, 06

Goodbye, My Fancy * (1951, Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 9609

Director Vincent Sherman’s 1951 Goodbye, My Fancy stars Joan Crawford, who is miscast in Madeleine Carroll’s stage role in Fay Kanin’s play, as Agatha Reed, a US Congress woman in a love tussle with old […]

Apr, 06

Fool for Love ** (1985, Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 9402

Director Robert Altman’s 1985 drama Fool for Love is a rather tedious and disappointing film version of a riveting Sam Shepard stage play, which seems ideally cast with the author himself as the cowpoke Eddie, […]

Feb, 19

The Las Vegas Story *** (1952, Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael, Brad Dexter, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 7,295

The 1952 film noir crime thriller The Las Vegas Story stars Jane Russell as a married café singer who meets an old flame police lieutenant (Victor Mature) in Las Vegas and he saves her investment […]

Jul, 16

Out of Season *** (1975, Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George) – Classic Movie Review 6277

Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson and Susan George spark the drama in the smart British 1975 romantic triangle film Out of Season, set in an English winter resort. Director Alan Bridges’s smart, sensitive and atmospheric but […]

Nov, 21

June Bride **** (1948, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Betty Lynn, Debbie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5,735

Bette Davis tries a useful change of pace with the 1948 film June Bride, a cute romantic comedy about a woman’s magazine editor who gets her chauvinist old flame, reporter Robert Montgomery, to help her […]

Jul, 09

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