Derek Winnert

The Pleasure Seekers ** (1964, Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley) – Classic Movie Review 6836

Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley and Pamela Tiffin star as attractive young American holidaymakers who find husbands (Tony Franciosa, Gardner McKay and André Lawrence) and pretty views in Madrid in director Jean Negulesco’s tepid 1964 remake of […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

Safe in Hell **** (1931, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse) – Classic Movie Review 6,835

Warner Bros’ fascinating and provocative 1931 crime drama film Safe in Hell stars Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda Karlson, a New Orleans hooker who flees to a Caribbean island after apparently killing Piet Van Saal (Ralf […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

The Covered Wagon ***** (1923, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, J Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 6834

Producer-director James Cruze’s trail-blazing 1923 silent Western is faded but important historically and it still impresses. Cruze’s major movie is one of the first American epics and notable for elevating the Western from popular potboiler to important epic. […]

Mar, 20

The Cowboys **** (1972, John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Sarah Cunningham, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 6,833

Mark Rydell’s 1972 movie The Cowboys is an unusual and successful Seventies Western with John Wayne giving one of his most impressive late performances as a tough cattleman who has to accept the help of […]

Mar, 20

Jubal **** (1956, Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Rod Steiger, Valerie French) – Classic Movie Review 6832

Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Rod Steiger and Valerie French star in an impressive early Delmer Daves psychological Western movie, a tragic morality tale, intriguingly inspired by or loosely based on William Shakespeare’s Othello, though it is actually […]

Mar, 20

The Last Wagon **** (1956, Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Tommy Rettig, Susan Kohner, Ray Stricklyn, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6,831

Delmer Daves’s notable 1956 Western film The Last Wagon stars Richard Widmark as sheriff’s prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, who is forced to help a wagon train of settlers against hostile Apaches. Co-writer/ director Delmer Daves’s notable […]

Mar, 20

This Woman Is Dangerous ** (1952, Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Mari Aldon, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 6830

Joan Crawford and her famous shoulder pads star in director Felix E Feist’s trashy but intense 1952 romantic film noir melodrama This Woman Is Dangerous, standard Fifties Crawford fare of a hard nut with a […]

Mar, 20

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