Derek Winnert

Reviews

Canyon Passage *** (1946, Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc, Hoagy Carmichael, Ward Bond, Andy Devine, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 10,618

Shop owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) clashes with slimy financier George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), after the latter’s fiancée Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) falls for the former and one of Donlevy’s bank clients is killed. The […]

Dec, 02

Canyon River ** (1956, George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,617

It’s a hard life in the West. You’d think Wyoming rancher Steve Patrick (George Montgomery) would have his hands full enough fighting off Indians and rustlers sent by his opponent Maddox (Walter Sande), while he […]

Dec, 02

Stranger on Horseback *** (1955, Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 10,616

Director Jacques Tourneur’s very fine 1955 American Anscocolor Western film Stranger on Horseback stars Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire and John Carradine. The well-honed screenplay by Herb Meadow and Don Martin is based […]

Dec, 02

Stars in My Crown **** (1950, Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 10,615

Director Jacques Tourneur’s celebrated 1950 black and white Western family drama film Stars in My Crown stars Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew as Josiah and Harriet Gray. Josiah Doziah Gray is an American Civil War […]

Dec, 02

Coupe de Ville **** (1990, Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Alan Arkin) – Classic Movie Review 10,614

Director Joe Roth’s 1990 film Coupe de Ville is a funny and warm-hearted bitter-sweet comedy drama about brothers Bobby, Buddy and Marvin Libner (Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross and Daniel Stern) meeting up for the first […]

Dec, 02

Criminal Law ** (1988, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper) – Classic Movie Review 10,613

Director Martin Campbell’s 1988 Criminal Law is an interesting but none too convincing suspense thriller, with Britain’s Gary Oldman oddly cast as Ben Chase, a hotshot rising young Boston attorney who gets rich psycho killer Martin […]

Dec, 02

Le Dernier Milliardaire [The Last Billionaire] *** (1934, Max Dearly, Sinoël, Paul Ollivier, Renée Saint-Cyr, Marthe Mellot) – Classic Movie Review 10,612

The 1934 French comedy film Le Dernier Milliardaire [The Last Billionaire] is writer-director René Clair’s political satire about a bankrupt principality’s ruler, La Reine de Casinario (Marthe Mellot), who gets the world’s richest banker, Banco (Max […]

Dec, 01

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