Derek Winnert

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Glory Alley * (1952, Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Gilbert Roland, John McIntire, Louis Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 11,388

‘Buccaneer’s Alley! Thieves’ Alley! Glory Alley! Street of tough guys, hot tunes, temptation… alive with love and larceny… courage and crime!’ Director Raoul Walsh’s 1952 New Orleans-set MGM black and white musical drama Glory Alley […]

Jul, 14

The Spider *** (1931, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge, George E Stone, Earle Foxe) – Classic Movie Review 11,387

THRILL to the most amazing mystery of your life as a lurid web is woven around the helpless victims of… EDMUND LOWE in THE SPIDER (1931). Directors William Cameron Menzies and Kenneth MacKenna’s intricate, imaginatively […]

Jul, 13

A Separate Peace *** (2004, J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,383

Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]

Jul, 12

The Angel Levine *** (1970, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O’Shea, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 11,382

Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]

Jul, 11

The Brothers Karamazov ** (1958, Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Richard Basehart, William Shatner, Claire Bloom, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 11,375

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1958 Metrocolor film The Brothers Karamazov turns Fedor Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel into a busy melodrama of a boorish Russian father’s murder, the false imprisonment of one of his three illegitimate sons, boisterous army […]

Jul, 08

Brown on Resolution [Forever England] **** (1935, John Mills, Betty Balfour, Barry Mackay, Jimmy Hanley) – Classic Movie Review 11,374

Director Walter Forde’s 1936 British war film Brown on Resolution [Forever England] stars John Mills, who embodies the character of brave sailor he did so well – here Albert Brown, who joins the Royal Navy […]

Jul, 08

Blackmail ** (1939, Edward G Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart) Classic Movie Review 11,372

Director H C Potter’s 1939 black and white crime drama film Blackmail stars the ever dependable Edward G Robinson, who enlivens a routinely scripted but neatly handled B-movie thriller as an oil well firefighter called […]

Jul, 07

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