Derek Winnert

Reviews

Women from Headquarters ** (1950, Virginia Huston, Barbra Fuller, Robert Rockwell, Frances Charles) – Classic Movie Review 12,892

Virginia Huston, Barbra Fuller and Robert Rockwell star in the short and pacy 1950 crime film noir Women from Headquarters, in which a female ex-Army nurse re-trains as police officer with the LAPD. Virginia Huston, […]

May, 22

The Red Menace [The Enemy Within] [Underground Spy] * (1949, Robert Rockwell, Hanne Axman, Betty Lou Gerson, Barbra Fuller, Shepard Menken) – Classic Movie Review 12,891

Republic Pictures’ virulently anti-Communist 1949 film noir thriller The Red Menace [The Enemy Within] stars Robert Rockwell, Hanne Axman, Betty Lou Gerson and Barbra Fuller. It is a scarily strident propaganda piece. ‘Wanted… by every […]

May, 21

Up Jumped a Swagman ** (1965, Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd, Suzy Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 12,890

Country music and yodelling singer/ guitarist Frank Ifield stars as Dave Kelly, and his then new wife Gillian Bowden appears as a dancer, in the 1965 British musical comedy film Up Jumped a Swagman, directed […]

May, 20

Gunfighters [The Assassin] *** (1947, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot, Forrest Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 12,889

Columbia Pictures’ carefully crafted 1947 colour Western film Gunfighters [The Assassin] stars Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot and Forrest Tucker, and is based on Zane Grey’s 1941 novel Twin Sombreros. Director George Waggner’s 1947 […]

May, 19

The Gentle Sex *** (1943, Joan Greenwood, Joan Gates, Rosamund John, Jean Gillie, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,888

The vivid 1943 British wartime drama film The Gentle Sex stars Joan Gates, Jean Gillie, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer and Barbara Waring as diverse women who meet at an Auxiliary Territorial […]

May, 19

Lazy Eye *** (2016, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis, Michaela Watkins)

Lazy Eye is a likeable and appealing 2016 romantic comedy-drama film, thoughtfully and intelligently written and directed by Tim Kirkman. It stars Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Aaron Costa Ganis as two men who pick up from […]

May, 18

Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886

Hammer Films’ capable, strongly cast 1952 British black and white mystery film Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] stars Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley and Dora Bryan. […]

May, 16

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