Derek Winnert

Reviews

Design for Scandal *** (1941, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 10,640

Can you imagine Rosalind Russell as a judge or a sculptor? Well, here in director Norman Taurog’s airily funny 1941 MGM black and white comedy Design for Scandal, she plays both, paired as Cornelia Porter […]

Dec, 08

The Deserter [La Spina Dorsale del Diavolo] [The Devil’s Backbone] ** (1970, Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 10,639

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1970 Italian/ Yugoslav/ US co-production The Deserter [La Spina Dorsale del Diavolo] [The Devil’s Backbone] [Ride to Glory] is a violent Spaghetti Western with the usual revenge tale – cavalryman hunts the […]

Dec, 08

The Designated Mourner ** (1997, Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson, David de Keyser) – Classic Movie Review 10,638

In a very near future society, culture has died. The Designated Mourner stars Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson as husband and wife Jack and Judy, and David de Keyser as Judy’s father Howard, living in a […]

Dec, 08

Desert Sands ** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Ron Randell, John Smith, Keith Larsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,637

Director Lesley Selander’s 1955 programmer French Foreign Legion adventure film Desert Sands is produced by Bel-Air Productions and released by United Artists. It is foolish but nevertheless some fun as it is quite quirky and […]

Dec, 06

Desert Legion ** (1953, Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 10,636

‘A RECKLESS LEGEND OF THE FOREIGN LEGION!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s 1953 Universal International Pictures French Foreign Legion Technicolor adventure Desert Legion stars Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl and Akim Tamiroff, and is entertaining, easy-going, […]

Dec, 06

The Desert Hawk ** (1950, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, George Macready, Rock Hudson, Jackie Gleason, Joie Besser) – Classic Movie Review 10,635

Director Frederick de Cordova’s handsome, feisty, infectiously gleeful 1950 Universal International Pictures Technicolor fantasy adventure The Desert Hawk stars Yvonne De Carlo as Princess Scheherazade and Richard Greene as Omar the blacksmith, aka The Desert […]

Dec, 06

Desert Bloom **** (1986, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish) – Classic Movie Review 10,634

Director Eugene Corr’s 1986 drama Desert Bloom is the exceptionally moving, bitter-sweet tale of a 13-year-old girl Rose Chismore (Annabeth Gish)’s awakening amid family turmoil and all the flash and trash of early Fifties Las […]

Dec, 06

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