Derek Winnert

Reviews

All That Money Can Buy [The Devil and Daniel Webster] **** (1941, Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell) – Classic Movie Review 10,674

‘A GREAT MOTION PICTURE DARES TO BE DIFFERENT! ‘ Director William Dieterle’s 1941 fantasy comedy drama All That Money Can Buy [The Devil and Daniel Webster] is a magical version of the Faust story relocated […]

Dec, 17

Eagle Squadron ** (1942, Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, Jon Hall, Eddie Albert, John Loder, Nigel Bruce, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 10,673

Sparks fly when Americans enter Britain’s Royal Air Force in director Arthur Lubin’s simplistic and dramatically unrealistic 1942 World War Two airborne action war film Eagle Squadron, which blends fictional and real-life events and fails […]

Dec, 16

A Yank in the RAF ** (1941, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,672

Director Henry King’s 1941 American black-and-white action adventure drama romantic musical war film A Yank in the RAF stars Tyrone Power, Betty Grable and John Sutton. It was sold as a light-hearted look at war rather […]

Dec, 16

International Squadron ** (1941, Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 10,671

Director Lewis Seiler and Lothar Mendes’s 1941 American war film International Squadron finds Warner Bros recycling another old script and Ronald Reagan taking on James Cagney’s old role from the 1936 Ceiling Zero (based on Frank ‘Spig’ Wead’s play) […]

Dec, 15

International Lady ** (1941, George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 10,670

Director Tim Whelan’s 1941 International Lady stars George Brent as an FBI agent called Tim Hanley who is on the trail of Carla Nillson (Ilona Massey) and her international spies, but soon he is succumbing […]

Dec, 15

International Settlement ** (1938, Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, June Lang, Dick Baldwin, Ruth Terry, John Carradine, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 10,669

Director Eugene Forde’s 1938 black and white 20th Century Fox romantic adventure thriller International Settlement stars George Sanders as gun runner adventurer Del Forbes, who is catapulted into intrigue, danger and romance with French cabaret […]

Dec, 15

The Farmer Takes a Wife * (1953, Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 10,668

Director Henry Levin’s 1953 Twentieth Century Fox comedy musical romance The Farmer Takes a Wife is a plushly produced but uninvolving musical rehash of the sweet 1935 original The Farmer Takes a Wife. It is […]

Dec, 14

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