Derek Winnert

The Wedding Night *** (1935, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Sig Ruman, Helen Vinson) – Classic Movie Review 7178

Gary Cooper stars in the romantic drama The Wedding Night (1935) as an author called Tony Barrett who is married to Dora (Helen Vinson), and causes chaos in a Polish farming family when he takes a […]

Jun, 16 · in Uncategorized

The West Point Story *** (1950, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7177

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1950 musical comedy The West Point Story stars James Cagney eight years after his last musical Yankee Doodle Dandy as gambler Bill Bixby, an on-the-skids Broadway theatre director who produces a […]

Jun, 16 · in Uncategorized

West of the Divide ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7176

West of the Divide (1934) – A young John Wayne stars in a pacy Lone Star B Western.  John Wayne stars in writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 Lone Star/ Monogram Pictures black and white Western West […]

Jun, 16

The Rainmaker **** (1956, Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 7,175

The 1956 Technicolor drama The Rainmaker provides an outstanding showcase for Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in this well-crafted film of N Richard Nash’s Broadway play. Earl Holliman won the 1957 Golden Globe for Best […]

Jun, 16

The Fighting Kentuckian *** (1949, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 7174

John Wayne plays Kentucky frontiersman militiaman John Breen and is again paired with his studio boss’s wife Vera Ralston as the upper-crust French woman Fleurette De Marchand he falls for, in writer-director George Waggner’s so-so, middling […]

Jun, 15

The Fighting Seabees **** (1944, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7173

In the last year of his five-year contract with Republic Pictures signed just before the success of 1939’s Stagecoach, John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan in The Fighting Seabees, one of the studio’s typical B-movie wartime […]

Jun, 15

Flying Tigers *** (1942, John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7172

John Wayne stars in the 1942 black and white movie Flying Tigers as Airman Jim Gordon who leads a Flying Tigers squadron in the US fight against the Japanese, with the help of his seasoned […]

Jun, 15

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