Derek Winnert

Reviews

Little Mister Jim ** (1946, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, James Craig, Frances Gifford) – Classic Movie Review 11,264

Director Fred Zinnemann’s wafer-thin, scarcely winsome 1946 MGM black and white film Little Mister Jim tells the tale of life on an army post, with Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins as the mildly diverting little star playing […]

Jun, 02

My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263

MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]

Jun, 02

My Dear Miss Aldrich *** (1937, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 11,262

‘The Season’s Gayest Love Story!’ A young, attractive Nebraska newspaper heiress, Miss Martha Aldrich (Maureen O’Sullivan), repeatedly clashes with the stubborn managing editor (Walter Pidgeon) of the New York paper she has inherited. His attitude […]

Jun, 02

My Dear Secretary ** (1948, Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee, Helen Walker) – Classic Movie Review 11,261

Director Charles Martin’s 1948 black and white film My Dear Secretary is a romantic comedy in the marital vein with a bestselling romance novel author (Kirk Douglas) whose secretary-turned-wife (Laraine Day) writes a bestseller, much […]

Jun, 02

My Dinner with Andre **** (1981, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler) – Classic Movie Review 11,260

Director Louis Malle’s 1981 scripted documentary My Dinner with Andre is a tour de force by writer/stars Wallace Shawn (the actor/ playwright) and Andre Gregory (the theatre director) as the two old friends having a […]

Jun, 02

Mother Wore Tights *** (1947, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 11,251

Betty Grable had been the reigning box office queen since the beginning of the 1940s, and scored her biggest triumph with director Walter Lang’s Technicolor musical Mother Wore Tights in 1947. This amiable story dissecting […]

May, 28

Islands in the Stream *** (1977, George C Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Claire Bloom, Richard Evans, Hart Bochner, Julius Harris, Brad Savage) – Classic Movie Review 11,245

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1977 drama Islands in the Stream is based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, which was posthumously released in 1970, and stars George C Scott, David Hemmings and Gilbert Roland. George C […]

May, 26

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