Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Docks of New York **** (1928, George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, Mitchell Lewis, Gustav von Seyffertitz) – Classic Movie Review 11,778

The attractively lurid 1928 American drama The Docks of New York is probably Josef von Sternberg’s finest silent film, mainly because of his obvious joy in deploying his complete technical mastery of the medium. The […]

Dec, 09

Ikiru ***** (1952, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Koburi) – Classic Movie Review 11,777

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 black and white Japanese masterwork Ikiru [Living] [Doomed] is a gloomy but extremely affecting portrait of Japanese society through the story of an obscure old civil servant who finds he has […]

Dec, 08

The Idol (1966, Jennifer Jones, Michael Parks, John Leyton, Jennifer Hilary, Natasha Pyne, Guy Doleman) – Classic Movie Review 11,776

Director Daniel Petrie’s disastrous 1966 British black and white drama film The Idol stars Jennifer Jones, Michael Parks, John Leyton, Jennifer Hilary, Natasha Pyne and Guy Doleman. The Idol is a spectacularly terrible, hideously soapy […]

Dec, 08

Perfect *** (1985, John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 11,775

Director James Bridges’s 1985 American romantic drama film Perfect stars John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, along with Anne De Salvo, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman, Matthew Reed, and Jann Wenner. Magazine reporter Adam Lawrence (Travolta) is sent to take […]

Dec, 08

That Lady in Ermine ** (1948, Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Cesar Romero, Walter Abel, Reginald Gardiner, Virginia Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 11,774

Cluny Brown (1946) is the last film that Ernst Lubitsch completed before his death on 30 November 1947 at the age of 55. His final film, the American Technicolor musical film That Lady in Ermine […]

Dec, 08

Adventure’s End * (1937, John Wayne, Diana Gibson, Montagu Love, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 11,773

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1937 black and white film Adventure’s End stars John Wayne as Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade, in this very modest, quite weakly written and slackly handled romantic adventure, in which he runs […]

Dec, 07

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium *** (1969, Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Michael Constantine, Sandy Baron, Norman Fell, Peggy Cass) – Classic Movie Review 11,772

Director Mel Stuart’s 1969 DeLuxe Color romantic comedy If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium is an affectionate, hard-to-dislike send-up of American tourists on a whirlwind trip round Europe. English amorous tour guide Charlie Cartwright […]

Dec, 07

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