Derek Winnert

Lawless Range *** (1935, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7129

John Wayne returns to playing a singing cowboy again in Lawless Range after his one shot as Singin’ Sandy in Riders of Destiny (1933) and he appears to sing in this one, though in fact of course […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Riders of Destiny *** (1933, John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al St John) – Classic Movie Review 7128

The 26-year-old John Wayne plays ‘Singin’ Sandy’ Saunders (but dubbed, with the singing voice courtesy of Smith Ballew), a singing undercover US Government agent who battles against stagecoach robbing villains, and in particular bad guy James […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Salome’s Last Dance *** (1988, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais-Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7127

‘NOTORIOUS, SCANDALOUS, WILDE!’ Writer-director Ken Russell takes a walk on the Wilde side and again challenges our good will and his actors’ stamina in his provocative and colourful, sometimes amusing and inventive, sometimes silly and […]

Jun, 06

Salomé **** (1922, Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 7126

Director Charles Bryant’s extravagant black and white 1922 art nouveau silent movie version of Oscar Wilde’s play cost more than $350,000 to make and is outrageously designed by Natacha Rambova, who was clearly influenced by […]

Jun, 06

Salome Where She Danced *** (1945, Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Albert Dekker, David Bruce, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 7125

In the original story by Michael J Phillips, gorgeous Yvonne De Carlo plays a Viennese exotic dancer, Salome, who, during the Franco-Prussian War, escapes from Austria to America because she is suspected of being a […]

Jun, 06

Salome *** (1953, Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 7124

Director William Dieterle’s 1953 Salome is a spectacularly made if shakily scripted (by Harry Kleiner) movie epic of the famous Bible tale. The story of the biblical stripper (taken up by Oscar Wilde, who turned it […]

Jun, 06

Saigon *** (1948, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Morris Carnovsky) – Classic Movie Review 7123

The fairly imaginative 1948 crime action adventure film Saigon again pairs the sizzling hit team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, whose star chemistry is the making of the movie. Director Leslie Fenton’s only fairly […]

Jun, 05

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