Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Raoul Walsh"

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The Thief of Bagdad ***** (1924, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 1791

Writer-producer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr took several of the 1001 Nights tales as his starting point to fashion the story of this classic 1924 silent movie as a showy vehicle for himself. He plays the clever Thief […]

Oct, 31

High Sierra ***** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 1,348

Raoul Walsh’s 1941 thriller film High Sierra is a terrific action/ adventure film noir featuring Humphrey Bogart in yet another one of his iconic roles as notorious career criminal Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle. It made […]

Jun, 21

White Heat ***** (1949, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 147

James Cagney is brilliant as psychotic, epileptic gangster Cody Jarrett, fixated on his conniving mother Ma Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), in the awesome 1949 gangster film White Heat. A perfectly cast James Cagney is brilliant as […]

Aug, 10

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