Derek Winnert

Reviews

Montana Moon ** (1930, Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 11,159

The 26-year-old Joan Crawford, expensively gowned by Adrian, stars as wayward and sophisticated rancher’s daughter Joan ‘Montana’ Prescott, who is tamed by Texas course cowboy Larry Kerrigan (Johnny Mack Brown), in director Malcolm St Clair’s […]

May, 02

The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] ** (1956, Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O’Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel) – Classic Movie Review 11,158

The 1956 Italian comedy-drama film The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] is the German-born Marlene Dietrich’s sole Italian movie. Writer-director Samuel A Taylor’s resolute 1956 bid to revive the style of Thirties sophisticated comedy stars Marlene Dietrich, […]

May, 02

Monte Carlo or Bust! *** (1969, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 11,157

Director Ken Annakin’s 1969 comedy Monte Carlo or Bust! [Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies] stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes, […]

May, 02

Monte Carlo **** (1930, Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 11,156

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1930 Paramount Pictures black and white film Monte Carlo is a witty, delightful early talkie musical starring Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara, who, though about to wed silly Duke Otto von […]

May, 01

Monsieur Beaucaire *** (1924, Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Ian Maclaren, Doris Kenyon) – Classic Movie Review 11,155

‘Never Has Valentino Been Such a Lover, Such a Dancer, Such a Swordsman, Such a Dashing, Handsome, Lovable Hero as You’ll See Him in This Master Photoplay.’ Producer-director Sidney Alcott’s 1924 Paramount Pictures black and […]

May, 01

Monsieur Beaucaire *** (1946, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 11,154

Paramount Pictures’ entertaining 1946 black and white comedy adventure Monsieur Beaucaire stars Bob Hope as the title French court barber involved in politics at the time of King Louis XV.  Director George Marshall’s 1946 Paramount […]

May, 01

Marry Me ** (1949, Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson) – Classic Movie Review 11,152

Director Terence Fisher’s 1949 British Gainsborough Studios black and white film Marry Me tells four interlocking short stories about love, given a common link by the marriage bureau for unmarried ladies, run by two elderly sisters […]

Apr, 30

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