Derek Winnert

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

When Tomorrow Comes *** (1939, Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil) – Classic Movie Review 6673

Director John M Stahl’s 1939 romantic drama re-teams Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer following their hit with the classic Love Affair (1939). Restaurant waitress Helen Lawrence (Dunne) and celebrated married concert pianist Philip Chagal (Boyer) have a […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

Interlude *** (1968, Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Nora Swinburne, Alan Webb, Bernard Kay) – Classic Movie Review 6672

In the original 1939 screenplay for When Tomorrow Comes, Irene Dunne fell for married Charles Boyer, and in its remake, the 1957 film of Interlude, June Allyson fell for continental charmer Rossano Brazzi. And now in […]

Feb, 10

Interlude *** (1957, June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay, Keith Andes) – Classic Movie Review 6671

Douglas Sirk directs this heady 1957 four-hankie, majorly tear-jerking romantic melodrama, a remake of the 1939 hit When Tomorrow Comes, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, based on the original story A Modern Cinderella by James M Cain, […]

Feb, 10

Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Anna Kashfi, Don DeFore, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6,670

Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 American war film stars Rock Hudson as Lt Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life US fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped to evacuate hundreds of war orphans to safety. Director […]

Feb, 10

A Time to Love and a Time to Die **** (1958, John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6669

John Gavin made two films with German-born director Douglas Sirk in the late Fifties – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) and Imitation of Life (1959) – that greatly raised his profile. Gavin won […]

Feb, 10

The Best Man **** (1964, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Lee Tracy, Margaret Leighton, Kevin McCarthy, Shelley Berman, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 6668

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s outstanding 1964 film stars Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy, Margaret Leighton, Edie Adams, Kevin McCarthy, Shelley Berman and Ann Sothern. Tracy was Oscar nominated as Best Actor in a Supporting Role. […]

Feb, 09

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