Derek Winnert

Big Town After Dark *** (1947, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6343

‘POLICE SLAY GAMBLING CZAR…AS EDITOR ESCAPES DEATH! ‘ Director William C Thomas’s sharp and intriguing 1947 film noir is written by Whitman Chambers and stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis and Ann Gillis. There are plenty of thrills […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Lord Jim *** (1965, Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Jack Hawkins, Daliah Lavi, Curt Jurgens, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 6342

Richard Brooks’s 1965 film adaptation the gloomy 1900 Joseph Conrad novel was always going to be difficult to film and hard going. But Peter O’Toole is excellent as Lord Jim and there is good star […]

Dec, 01 · in Reviews

The Unsuspected **** (1947, Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield) – Classic Movie Review 6,341

Claude Rains stars in Warner Bros’ enjoyably far-fetched 1947  film noir mystery movie The Unsuspected as a suave radio host turned murderer who investigates his own perfect murder on his crime mystery show. Joan Caulfield […]

Dec, 01

A Lion is in the Streets *** (1953, James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire, Jeanne Cagney, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6340

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 film tells a steamy story along the familiar lines of the power corrupts theme, but it comes up fresh again as it is powerfully and briskly done in the hands of […]

Dec, 01

The Gorgeous Hussy ** (1936, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6339

Director Clarence Brown’s shaky 1936 historical drama is notable for the romantic teaming of two of MGM’s finest, Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor, as hussy innkeeper’s daughter Peggy O’Neal Eaton and the US navy lieutenant she […]

Dec, 01

Goodbye, Mr Chips ***½ (1969, Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Michael Bryant, Alison Leggatt, George Baker, Jack Hedley, Siân Phillips) –  Classic Movie Review 6338

Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]

Dec, 01

San Ferry Ann *** (1965, David Lodge, Joan Sims, Wilfrid Brambell, Ron Moody, Barbara Windsor, Ronnie Stevens, Rodney Bewes) Classic Movie Review 6337

Director Jeremy Summers’s inventive and amusing 1965 British short comedy tells the story of the misadventures of a British camper-van family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge, Joan Sims) wordlessly with just a soundtrack and sound effects. The […]

Nov, 30

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