Derek Winnert

Homecoming ** (1948, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6,701

The watchable 1948 wartime romantic film Homecoming finds ideally paired MGM superstars Clark Gable and Lana Turner in unusual roles for them in their third movie together. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s trite 1948 wartime romance film […]

Feb, 17 · in Reviews

Somewhere I’ll Find You ** (1942, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle) – Classic Movie Review 6700

Director Wesley Ruggles 1942 wartime romantic drama is the second of the four popular pairings of Clark Gable and Lana Turner at MGM, following Honky Tonk (1941) and followed by Homecoming (1948) and Betrayed (1954). Gable and Robert […]

Feb, 16 · in Reviews

Honky Tonk *** (1941, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker, Henry O’Neill, Chill Wills) – Classic Movie Review 6,699

MGM’s pleasing 1941 hit comedy Western film Honky Tonk teams Clark Gable as smooth-talking gambler-conman ‘Candy’ Johnson and Lana Turner as cute good girl Liz Cotton.  Director Jack Conway’s pleasant, rambling 1941 MGM comedy Western […]

Feb, 16

Bitter Victory **** (1957, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 6698

Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]

Feb, 16

Three Coins in the Fountain *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 6,697

Jean Negulesco knows how to make the double Oscar-winning 1954 romantic drama film Three Coins in the Fountain sweet and sentimental, but Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire are able to inject a bit of acid. […]

Feb, 16

Arch of Triumph ** (1948, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 6696

Co-writer/ producer/ director Lewis Milestone’s stodgy 1948 romantic war drama stars the incomparable Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, who are up to their pretty necks in a chunk of turgid, overblown heavyweight romantic melodrama based […]

Feb, 15

Three Comrades **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 6695

F Scott Fitzgerald gains his only scriptwriter credit during his stay at MGM (though he also worked on A Yank at Oxford and The Women) for his adaptation (along with Edward E Paramore Jr) of […]

Feb, 15

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