Derek Winnert

Reviews

Birth of the Blues *** (1941, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 11,328

‘Strike up the band, here comes happiness, in a merry medley of romance and rhythm’: Birth of the Blues (1941). Director Victor Schertzinger’s 1941 Paramount Pictures musical hit Birth of the Blues stars Bing Crosby, […]

Jun, 20

Kansas City Bomber ** (1972, Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy, Helena Kallianiotes, Jodie Foster) – Classic Movie Review 11,326

Raquel Welch gets her skates on for the 1972 sports drama film Kansas City Bomber. Welch recalled: ‘I had to learn to skate again. The film was fun.’  Raquel Welch stars in the 1972 sport […]

Jun, 20

Bitter Sweet **** (1933, Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Miles Mander, Ivy St Helier) – Classic Movie Review 11,323

Herbert Wilcox: ‘Surely a better musical play has never been written’. Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1933 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Anna Neagle as a dancer called Sarah Linden, now a gray-haired old woman, who tells […]

Jun, 19

New Face in Hell [P J] ** (1968, George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Coleen Gray) – Classic Movie Review 11,322

‘Gun in one hand… Woman in the other!’ Director John Guillermin’s 1967 Universal Pictures thriller New Face in Hell [P J] stars George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brock Peters and Susan Saint James. […]

Jun, 18

Sweethearts **** (1938, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger) – Classic Movie Review 11,321

‘Exquisite music, sparkling romance for the King and Queen of song!’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 MGM musical Sweethearts is based on the operetta by Victor Herbert, and stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson […]

Jun, 18

New Mexico ** (1951, Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Lloyd Corrigan, John Hoyt, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,320

‘ARROW-STREAKED ADVENTURE! BULLET-SCARRED STORY!!!’ Director Irving Reis’s interesting if historically inaccurate 1951 Western film New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as nice US Cavalry captain Hunt who fully understands the Native Americans’ understandable grievances, but when […]

Jun, 18

New Moon **** (1940, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 11,319

‘The King and Queen of Song… gloriously together again… in a red-blooded romance… of moonlight and music… love and danger… buccaneers and beauties!’ Producer-director Robert Z Leonard’s 1940 MGM musical New Moon is based on […]

Jun, 18

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