Derek Winnert

Safari * (1956, Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin, Earl Cameron) – Classic Movie Review 7264

‘Murderous Mau-Mau! Maddened Beasts! Mighty Jungle Love!’ There are no surprises here in director Terence Young’s fumbling 1956 British adventure film Safari, which has little going for it except the reasonably enjoyable cast. Hired by […]

Jul, 08 · in Reviews

Mourning Becomes Electra ** (1947, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Coleman, Leo Genn, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 7263

Ah, yes, ‘Mother and Daughter Loving the Same Man!’ That idea could make an American romcom or it could be a Greek tragedy. Certainly here we don’t see the funny side of it. Writer/ producer/ […]

Jul, 07 · in Reviews

Sister Kenny *** (1946, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 7262

A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]

Jul, 07

The First Purge (2018, Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Mugga, Patch Darragh, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

The fourth in the franchise started by The Purge back in 2013 is a nasty, unpleasant and revolting exploiter peddling strong disturbing violence and a wrong-headed near-future alternate reality, where the rich folks in power in […]

Jul, 07

My Sister Eileen *** (1942, Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 7261

Director Alexander Hall’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen stars Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood, who have adventures in New York where from their basement apartment they have […]

Jul, 06

My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260

Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]

Jul, 06

Station West *** (1948, Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7259

Dick Powell is on good form in Station West (1948) in a rare Western outing for him as US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven, an officer who goes undercover in a Western town to expose […]

Jul, 06

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