Derek Winnert

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Quick, Before It Melts ** (1964, George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer) – Classic Movie Review 10,781

Director Delbert Mann’s 1965 comedy Quick, Before It Melts stars Robert Morse and George Maharis as coy cub reporter Oliver Cromwell Cannon and confident, womanising photojournalist Peter Santelli who set off to get their magazine […]

Jan, 12

The Crowded Sky ** (1960, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, John Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Troy Donahue) – Classic Movie Review 10,574

‘The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s efficient 1960 melodrama The Crowded Sky is a busy all-star disaster movie, which is quite fun as hokum. […]

Nov, 21

Iron Eagle II * (1988, Louis Gossett Jr, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 10,189

Sidney J Furie’s 1988 action sequel Iron Eagle II again stars Louis Gossett Jr, who is back as US Air Force General Charles ‘Chappy’ Sinclair, without original star Jason Gedrick as his co-star, and this […]

Aug, 17

Flight Angels ** (1940, Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy Jane Wyman) – Classic Movie Review 10,075

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1940 Flight Angels offers good nostalgia for wartime flying, pre-war in America’s case, and these are the brisk, cheery stewardesses (Jane Wyman, Virginia Bruce) and capable, brave pilots (Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris) […]

Jul, 22

Island in the Sky ** (1953, John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 9223

Director William A Wellman’s 1953 aviation adventure Island in the Sky is a wordy and predictable, but still sturdy air rescue drama about Captain Dooley (John Wayne)’s World War Two wartime crew who have to […]

Jan, 04

The Sky Dragon * (1949, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone, Joel Marston, Noel Neill, Iris Adrian, Elena Verdugo, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 9063

The Thirties and Forties Charlie Chan series ends with a dying gasp in director Lesley Selander’s 1949 The Sky Dragon, perhaps the weakest entry of all the series, as Roland Winters returns for the sixth […]

Nov, 10

The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] *** (2019, Hanyu Zhang, Hao Ou, Jiang Du) – Movie Review

Director Andrew Lau’s excellent, well-staged 2019 Chinese blockbuster real-life disaster movie The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] is based on a terrifying incident in May 2018 when a Sichuan Airlines flight cockpit’s windshield cracked and […]

Oct, 17

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