Derek Winnert

White Fang *** (1936, Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Winninger, Slim Summerville, Thomas Beck) – Classic Movie Review 6368

Director David Butler’s semi-classic 1936 adventure is a successful, fast-moving and handsomely filmed version of the Jack London story, with Jean Muir and Thomas Beck as siblings Sylvia Burgess and Hal who are bequeathed a mine. […]

Dec, 07 · in Reviews

White Fang *** (1991, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan, James Remar, Bill Moseley) – Classic Movie Review 6367

Director Randal Kleiser’s very popular, smoothly efficient and extremely good-looking 1991 Disney film version of the old Jack London story stars the young Ethan Hawke, who gives an appealing performance as young gold hunter Jack […]

Dec, 07 · in Reviews

Where the Sidewalk Ends **** (1950, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens, Neville Brand) – Classic Movie Review 6366

Director Otto Preminger’s excellent 1950 film noir thriller stars Dana Andrews as Detective Sergeant Mark Dixon, a violent cop who accidentally beats to death a suspect in a robbery case and tries to frame a […]

Dec, 07

With Six You Get Eggroll ** (1968, Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 6365

Director Howard Morris’s 1968 movie With Six You Get Eggroll has a lovely title for a genially amusing Doris Day comedy, in which she plays Abby McClure, a widow juggling a career as a lumberyard […]

Dec, 06

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? *** (1968, Doris Day, Terry-Thomas, Patrick O’Neal, Robert Morse, Lola Albright, Jim Backus, Steve Allen) – Classic Movie Review 6364

The New York power cut of 1965 – the Great Northeast Blackout – provides the backdrop for a jolly comedy vehicle for Doris Day, though director Hy Averback’s 1968 movie is a little uncinematic and […]

Dec, 06

Fresh ** (1994, Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 6363

The eponymous 12-year-old African American kid Fresh (Sean Nelson) is late for a very important date – in his New York classroom – because he has been held up in his heroin-running work for the […]

Dec, 06

Hart’s War *** (2002, Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard) – Classic Movie Review 6362

Colin Farrell plays Lieutenant Thomas Hart, an American law-student-turned GI fighting in World War Two, who is captured by enemy soldiers. He is taken to a German PoW camp, where Bruce Willis plays the ranking […]

Dec, 06

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