Derek Winnert

Man of the World ** (1931, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 6710

In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]

Feb, 19 · in Reviews

Any Number Can Play ** (1949, Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 6,709

MGM’s 1949 drama movie Any Number Can Play stars Clark Gable as a casino owner who has problems over his health, his wife (Alexis Smith) and his son.  ‘Red-Head Trouble! Blonde Trouble! Brunette Trouble! – […]

Feb, 19 · in Reviews

They Met in Bombay *** (1941, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 6708

Director Clarence Brown’s entertaining 1941 MGM wartime comedy crime adventure stars a great vintage line-up in Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen and Jessie Ralph. Gable plays jewel thief Gerald Meldrick and Russell plays sophisticated […]

Feb, 18

Star Wars: The Last Jedi ** (2017, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran) – Movie Review

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi is nominated for four Oscars and has earned a fortune ($1,311,425,821 by 28 January 2018) but it is a letdown and certainly comes complete with a full cargo […]

Feb, 18

Detective Chinatown 2 *** (2018, Baoqiang Wang, Haoran Liu, Yang Xiao, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Detective Chinatown 2 is that rarest of all kinds of movies – a wacky slapstick action comedy serial killer thriller. With the goofy performances, and general air of carefree silly fun, you’d think they couldn’t […]

Feb, 18

Johnny Eager *** (1942, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6707

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1942 MGM movie is a half-way good gangster picture with a convincing atmosphere and a commendably taut pace, in which nice girl Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls for vicious mobster Johnny Eager […]

Feb, 18

Slightly Dangerous *** (1943, Lana Turner, Robert Young, Dame May Whitty, Walter Brennan, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 6706

Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1943 MGM movie stars Lana Turner as Peggy Evans, a bored 21-year-old soda counter waitress who leaves her hick American town for New York, where she gets a make-over and masquerades as industrialist […]

Feb, 18

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