Derek Winnert

Desire in the Dust ** (1960, Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott, Brett Halsey) – Classic Movie Review 7146

Raymond Burr stars in director William F Claxton’s 1960 Deep South film noir crime melodrama as wealthy Southerner, Colonel Ben Marquand, who greets ex-convict Lonnie Wilson (Ken Scott) after he has served six years in […]

Jun, 10 · in Reviews

Desire Me * (1947, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart) – Classic Movie Review 7145

Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]

Jun, 10 · in Reviews

Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144

Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]

Jun, 10

Desire Under the Elms *** (1958, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 7143

Director Delbert Mann’s 1958 movie of playwright Eugene O’Neill’s Desire under the Elms stars Sophia Loren as Anna, who intrudes into a theatrical version of 19th-century New England, marries Ephraim Cabot (Burl Ives) and has […]

Jun, 09

The Actress *** (1953, Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 7142

Actress Ruth Gordon turned her early life as a stage-struck Massachusetts teenager into a Broadway play, Years Ago, and now into a film, director George Cukor’s 1953 The Actress, for which she writes the screenplay. […]

Jun, 09

The Matchmaker **** (1958, Shirley Booth, Paul Ford, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine) – Classic Movie Review 7141

Director Joseph Anthony’s vivacious 1958 romantic comedy drama The Matchmaker is an engaging and amusing film version of the enduring, entertaining 1955 Thornton Wilder stage classic about the 1884 Yonkers scheming middle-aged widow matchmaker Dolly Levi […]

Jun, 09

Fear Strikes Out *** (1957, Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7,140

The 1957 drama film Fear Strikes Out stars young Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, a shy, fearful youth plunged into mental turmoil over his father (Karl Malden)’s overpowering need to make him a baseball player. […]

Jun, 09

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