Derek Winnert

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The Girl He Left Behind ***(1956, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Henry Jones, Murray Hamilton, Alan King, James Garner, David Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 8131

Director David Butler’s 1956 The Girl He Left Behind is an over-familiar but pleasant and mildly amusing Fifties services comedy drama, with Tab Hunter as college student Andy Shaeffer, a military draftee knocked into shape […]

Feb, 14

Tomahawk ** (1951, Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol) – Classic Movie Review 7579

Director George Sherman’s 1951 Universal International Pictures movie Tomahawk (aka The Battle of Powder River) is a fairly lively Western, set in Wyoming in the 1860s, and based on (or suggested by) a story by Daniel […]

Sep, 15

Streamers **** (1983, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein) – Classic Movie Review 7534

Boldly treating the cinema screen like a theatre stage, director Robert Altman films his 1983 success Streamers on a single location – the army barracks dormitory where a group of young US recruits are waiting […]

Sep, 03

The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] *** (1955, Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, Anne Bancroft, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 7296

Director Anthony Mann’s 1956 The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] is a slightly below-par, rather predictable Western from director Mann and writers Philip Yordan and Russell S Hughes, all of whom could be brilliant on a […]

Jul, 16

Bataan ** (1943, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 6997

Director Tay Garnett’s 1943 MGM stars-and-stripes-forever war film about the Japanese killing off a group of 13 GIs left guarding a vital bridge on the Bataan peninsula in 1942, is harrowing but largely unconvincing, even […]

May, 04

Battleground **** (1949, Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Marshall Thompson, Scotty Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 6714

Director William Wellman’s important and distinguished, if necessarily grim 1949 iconic war movie won Oscars for its screenplay by Robert Pirosh, who was involved in the actual Battle of the Bulge, and for Paul C […]

Feb, 21

Stripes *** (1981, Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P J Soles, Sean Young, Judge Reinhold, John Larroquette) – Classic Movie Review 6521

The team behind 1979’s Meatballs reconvene for director Ivan Reitman’s follow-up military spoof comedy in 1981. The results are pretty much the same. It is equally amiable, broad and fairly crass. Bill Murray and Harold […]

Jan, 04

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