Derek Winnert

The Green Berets (1968, John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 6998

Inspired to make The Green Berets as a response to the growing anti-Vietnam War movement in the US, John Wayne delivers an offensive and inept warmongering, reactionary propaganda movie about two US army groups trained […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

Bataan ** (1943, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 6997

Director Tay Garnett’s 1943 MGM stars-and-stripes-forever war film about the Japanese killing off a group of 13 GIs left guarding a vital bridge on the Bataan peninsula in 1942, is harrowing but largely unconvincing, even […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

Flying Leathernecks ** (1951, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter, Don Taylor, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 6996

Director Nicholas Ray’s 1951 wartime action drama stars John Wayne and Robert Ryan as airborne commander Major Daniel Xavier Kirby and executive officer Captain Carl ‘Griff’ Griffin, who fight it out over whether Major Kirby […]

May, 04

Back to Bataan *** (1945, John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 6995

RKO Radio Pictures’s 1945 wartime movie is a strange mix with left-wing director Edward Dmytryk proving his patriotism and right-wing gung-ho star John Wayne, as World War Two US marine Colonel Madden, winning the war […]

May, 04

Tobacco Road **** (1941, Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth Patterson, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6994

Director John Ford’s 1941 Great Depression-era comedy drama film Tobacco Road makes a tasty meal of Erskine Caldwell’s novel of Georgia poor farm folk dispossessed of their land. Charley Grapewin and Elizabeth Patterson hold centre stage […]

May, 03

Typhoon *** (1940, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J Carrol Naish, Frank Reicher, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 6993

The admirable Dorothy Lamour stars again in director Louis King’s jolly, carefully contrived 1940 film vehicle for her as Dea, a beautiful island girl, cast away on the island from when she was a child, discovered […]

May, 03

Tycoon ** (1947, John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, James Gleason, Judith Anderson, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6992

Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]

May, 03

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