Derek Winnert

Reviews

Three Smart Girls *** (1936, Deanna Durbin, Barbara Read, Nan Grey, Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 10,702

Three sisters try to reunite their estranged parents (Charles Winninger and Nella Walker) when their father wants to wed a trampy money-grabber in Universal’s thin but popular 1936 black and white drama Three Smart Girls, […]

Dec, 24

Kidnapped *** (1971, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas, Gordon Jackson, Freddie Jones, Jack Watson, Vivien Heilbron) – Classic Movie Review 10,701

‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Great Adventure Story… Now a Monumental Motion Picture!’ Director Delbert Mann’s 1971 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the fourth big movie attempt at the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of adventure and romance – […]

Dec, 23

Kidnapped *** (1960, Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 10,700

‘SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE! FLASHING SWORDS AND RAGING SEAS… as soldiers of fortune fight for their lives!’ Writer-director Robert Stevenson’s 1960 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the Walt Disney version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale. It offers a […]

Dec, 23

Kidnapped ** (1948, Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O’Herlihy, Roland Winters, Jeff Corey, Houseley Stevenson, Erskine Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 10,699

Director William Beaudine’s 1948 Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation/ Monogram Pictures poverty row double feature film adventure Kidnapped is another antique American version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, this time with Roddy McDowall as the boy […]

Dec, 23

Kidnapped **** (1938, Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, John Carradine, C Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 10,698

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1938 20th Century Fox adventure Kidnapped is the classic vintage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale about a boy, David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew), who is kidnapped and sold as a slave […]

Dec, 23

Plunder **** (1930, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 10,696

The 1930 British comedy film Plunder is a smashing, fast-moving, high-spirited Ben Travers farce about upper-crust chums Freddie Malone and Darcy Tuck (Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn) who go gem stealing. Director Tom Walls’s 1930 […]

Dec, 22

Nothing But the Truth *** (1941, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 10,697

The 1941 comedy film Nothing But the Truth starts with a good premise about a man who bets $10,000 he will tell nothing but the truth for a whole day. The ideally paired Bob Hope […]

Dec, 22

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