Derek Winnert

Reviews

Day of Wrath ***** (1943, Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Sigrid Neiiendam) – Classic Movie Review 10,818

Director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s second sound film, the 1943 black and white Danish drama Day of Wrath [Vredens Dag], is a formally constructed tableau (with images based on 17th-century Dutch paintings) studying suspicion, witchcraft, a […]

Jan, 22

The Hunting Party ** (1971, Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 10,817

Director Don Medford’s nasty-toned, hard-to-like 1971 British Western The Hunting Party stars Gene Hackman as the rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger, whose beautiful young wife Melissa (Candice Bergen) is kidnapped by the infamous outlaw […]

Jan, 22

Gertrud **** (1964, Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Baard Owe, Ebbe Rode) – Classic Movie Review 10,813

Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]

Jan, 21

The Hunters *** (1958, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, May Britt, Richard Egan, Lee Philips) – Classic Movie Review 10,811

Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner star as two very different US Air Force fighter pilots, in Dick Powell’s 1958 Korean War movie The Hunters, with May Britt, Richard Egan, Lee Philips. Robert Wagner supports main […]

Jan, 20

Mardi Gras ** (1958, Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, Gary Crosby, Fred Clark, Dick Sargent) – Classic Movie Review 10,810

Originally announced as the film’s stars, Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter only make cameo appearances as themselves in the 1958 New Orleans-set American musical comedy film Mardi Gras directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Pat […]

Jan, 20

Say One for Me ** (1959, Debbie Reynolds, Bing Crosby, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 10,809

Robert Wagner supports Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds in the mix of comedy, musical and romance that is Say One for Me (1959). It was nominated for one Oscar: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical […]

Jan, 20

Rag Doll [Young, Willing and Eager] *** (1961, Jess Conrad, Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith, Christina Gregg, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,807

The 1961 British B-movie crime film Rag Doll gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Jess Conrad’s elevation to cult status as a pre-Beatles British icon. Director Lance Comfort’s 1961 crime drama […]

Jan, 19

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