Derek Winnert

Rome Adventure *** (1962, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 6820

The soft and soapy 1962 romantic melodrama film Rome Adventure is handsomely produced with cute stars (Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson), lovely Italy views, fine Max Steiner music and even some wit. Writer-producer-director Delmer […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

A Distant Trumpet *** (1964, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory, William Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 6819

Director Raoul Walsh’s last film is a robustly handled but soapy cavalry Western about problems with romance, discipline and Indians on the warpath at Fort Delivery, a frontier outpost in Arizona Territory. There, rookie Second […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

The Divorcee *** (1930, Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 6818

Norma Shearer won the 1930 Best Actress Oscar as Jerry, a married woman who discovers her newspaper-career husband Ted (Chester Morris) is unfaithful and leaves him to enjoy the same infidelity pleasures as he does. […]

Mar, 18

Madame X ** (1965, Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Constance Bennett, Burgess Meredith, Keir Dullea) – Classic Movie Review 6817

Lana Turner stars in the seventh film version of the old theatrical chestnut based on the ancient Alexandre Bisson play about Holly Parker, a wealthy woman on trial for murder who is defended by an […]

Mar, 18

Madame X ** (1937, Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 6816

Director Sam Wood’s 1937 MGM drama is the fifth (of seven) cinema film versions of this classic fallen woman, road-to-ruin weepie tale about Jacqueline Fleuriot, a rich woman whose life is wrecked by a brief […]

Mar, 18

The Sin of Madelon Claudet [The Lullaby] ** (1931, Helen Hayes, Robert Young, Neil Hamilton, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 6815

Helen Hayes won the 1932 Best Actress Oscar for her wild overacting as the newly-wed French country woman Madelon Claudet, who is bullied by her new mother-in-law, after marrying US artist Larry (Neil Hamilton), who […]

Mar, 18

Candleshoe *** (1977, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 6814

Director Norman Tokar’s 1977 British film for children is an amusing Disney adventure comedy, with a jolly script and a superb cast of scene-stealers. Leo McKern plays small-time crook Harry Bundage, who dupes American urchin Casey Brown […]

Mar, 17

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