Derek Winnert

Two Years Before the Mast **** (1946, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Da Silva, Esther Fernández) – Classic Movie Review 6991

Director John Farrow’s notable 1946 adventure film drama Two Years Before the Mast stars Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Da Silva, and based on Richard Henry Dana Jr’s travel book of the same […]

May, 03 · in Reviews

Whispering Smith **** (1948, Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 6,990

Whispering Smith (1948) is notable as Alan Ladd’s first Western and first colour film. Whispering Smith (1948) is notable as Alan Ladd’s first Western and first colour film, moving him on from the film noir […]

May, 02 · in Uncategorized

Hell Below Zero *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6988

Alan Ladd had his second stay in Britain for director Mark Robson’s 1954 murder-at-sea mystery in which, as Duncan Craig, he becomes first mate on a whaler to find out why Judie Nordhal (Joan Tetzel)’s […]

May, 02

Home and Away ** (1956, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Lana Morris, Charles Victor, Thora Hird, Leslie Henson, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 6989

Co-writer/ director Vernon Sewell’s 1956 movie Home and Away is not the film of the Eighties TV soap, but a merry typically Fifties British B-comedy with a fairly dreadful plot about a working-class family that […]

May, 02

The Red Beret [Paratrooper] ** (1953, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen) – Classic Movie Review 6987

Just when Alan Ladd hit his career heights with Shane, along came director Terence Young’s mediocre 1953 British-made angst-filled wartime action drama to pull him down again. Ladd plays an American soldier who causes his […]

May, 01

Black Jack *** (1979, Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval) – Classic Movie Review 6986

Writer-director Ken Loach’s dark and complex 1979 costume adventure drama is based on Leon Garfield’s novel about the adventures of a roguish 18th-century French sailor and thief called Black Jack (Jean Franval) in Yorkshire who […]

May, 01

A Little Romance *** (1979, Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard ) – Classic Movie Review 6985

Director George Roy Hill’s sweet and entertaining 1979 romantic comedy movie stars Laurence Olivier as Julius, an old storytelling pickpocket who befriends a couple of teenage brats and gets them to run away with him […]

May, 01

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