Derek Winnert

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The Happy Years *** (1950, Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 10,808

Director William A Wellman’s 1950 MGM Technicolor comedy The Happy Years stars Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore and Leo G Carroll. Craggy, crusty but essentially nice fuddy-duddy old Englishman called […]

Jan, 19

The Seduction of Joe Tynan **** (1979, Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Melvyn Douglas, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 10,806

‘There are many ways to be seduced. Fame. Power. Love. Joe Tynan knows them all.’ Director Jerry Schatzberg’s entertaining and involving 1979 political drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan about the slippery path to success […]

Jan, 18

Secrets of the Phantom Caverns [What Waits Below] (1984, Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson, Anne Heywood) – Classic Movie Review 10,805

Archaeologists open up a deep cavern in South America and get the shock of their lives when they uncover a lost race of albino aliens in carpet slippers, in the hilariously awful 1984 action horror film […]

Jan, 18

The Frog Prince **** (1985, Jane Snowden, Alexandre Sterling, Diana Blackburn) – Classic Movie Review 10,804

David Puttnam produced director Brian Gilbert’s sweet and relaxing 1985 romance The Frog Prince [The French Lesson], based on a book by Nina Rootes and co-written by the director and The Guardian cartoonist Posy Simmonds, […]

Jan, 18

The Frogmen *** (1951, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 10,803

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 American black-and-white World War Two drama The Frogmen stars Richard Widmark as martinet US Navy lieutenant commander John Lawrence, who leads the WW2 wartime Underwater Demolition Team divers of the title, and wins the […]

Jan, 18

Night Nurse **** (1931, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable) – Classic Movie Review 10,798

‘Tells the Naked Truth About Happenings in the Dead of Night!’ Director William A Wellman’s 1931 Warner Bros black and white crime thriller Night Nurse stars young Barbara Stanwyck as the nocturnal angel Lora Hart, […]

Jan, 16

The Night of January 16th ** (1941, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,797

Director William Clemens’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white mystery crime drama B-movie The Night of January 16th stars Ellen Drew as secretary Kit Lane who is actually the brunt of an embezzlement scam involving […]

Jan, 16

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