Derek Winnert

Reviews

Louisiana Purchase **** (1941, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore) – Classic Movie Review 10,688

‘It’s your greatest screen show with a De Sylva lining!’ Bob Hope is on top form as Jim Taylor, a dupe of his machinating bosses (Frank Albertson, Donald MacBride) at the Louisiana Purchase Company, in […]

Dec, 20

Caught in the Draft *** (1941, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 10,687

The 1941 comedy Caught in the Draft stars Bob Hope as a famous vain Hollywood movie star scaredy-cat, who tries to avoid being called up in World War Two, but is drafted into the US […]

Dec, 20

Big House, USA **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, Lon Chaney Jr, Charles Bronson, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 10,686

‘We’re bustin’ out of this tomb… And we don’t care how many of you we have to kill!’ The 1955 film noir crime thriller Big House, USA stars Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Lon Chaney Jr, […]

Dec, 19

Caught **** (1949, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 10,685

Director Max Ophüls’s 1949 black and white film noir romantic drama Caught stars James Mason, Robert Ryan and Barbara Bel Geddes. Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes) marries neurotic Smith Ohlrig (Ryan) for his money, only to […]

Dec, 19

Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] *** (1956, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Giani Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 10,684

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]

Dec, 19

Middle Age Crazy *** (1980, Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret, Graham Jarvis, Deborah Wakeham, Eric Christmas, Helen Hughes, Geoffrey Bowes) – Classic Movie Review 10,683

Well is 40 a dangerous age? Director John Trent’s 1980 Canadian midlife crisis, sex comedy drama Middle Age Crazy thinks so. Successful married businessman Bruce Dern becomes neurotic when he crosses the dateline to middle […]

Dec, 19

Midas Run [A Run on Gold] ** (1969, Fred Astaire, Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Ralph Richardson, Roddy McDowall, Adolfo Celi, Maurice Denham, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 10,682

Director Alf Kjellin’s 1969 Midas Run [A Run on Gold] stars Fred Astaire as a devious veteran British secret service agent called John Pedley, who plots with duped professor Mike Warden (Richard Crenna) to steal a […]

Dec, 19

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