Derek Winnert

Marjorie Morningstar ** (1958, Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Edd Byrnes, George Tobias, Jesse White, Paul Picerni, Ruta Lee, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 6317

Director Irving Rapper’s intriguing and glossy but uncomfortable 1958 romantic drama film adaptation of The Winds of War writer Herman Wouk’s sincere novel – surprisingly at the time the most-read book since Gone with the Wind – […]

Nov, 26 · in Reviews

Valley of the Dolls *** (1967, Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward, Tony Scotti, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 6316

Valley of the Dolls charts the rise and fall in show business of three young hopefuls – Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins), Jennifer North (Sharon Tate) and Neely O’Hara (Patty Duke). Director Mark Robson’s high camp […]

Nov, 26 · in Reviews

My Man Godfrey ***** (1936, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Gail Patrick, Mischa Auer, Franklin Pangborn, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 6315

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Gregory La Cava’s wonderful, totally spiffing 1936 classic screwball comedy My Man Godfrey stars William Powell as the Great Depression down-on-his-luck socialite Godfrey, who is taken on as gentleman-butler by a wacky […]

Nov, 25

Life with Father **** (1947, William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Martin Milner, Jimmy Lydon, Emma Dunn, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 6314

Clarence Day Jr’s autobiographical reminiscences of his family life at the turn of the last century was a Broadway smash, and director Michael Curtiz’s warm and witty 1947 film brings all of its appeal intact […]

Nov, 25

Springfield Rifle ** (1952, Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Lon Chaney Jr, Paul Kelly, Philip Carey, Guinn Williams, Fess Parker, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 6,313

André de Toth’s strongly cast 1952 Warner Bros Western film Springfield Rifle stars Gary Cooper as a Union intelligence officer who goes undercover to battle a Confederate rustler spy ring.  ‘The Gun That Made One […]

Nov, 25

Sentimental Journey ** (1946, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6312

Director Walter Lang’s 1946 drama is true to its title, and then some. It is an outrageously unabashed, very sentimental and shamefully mawkish tearjerker about a dying Broadway actress who adopts a child to keep […]

Nov, 25

The Cobweb *** (1955, Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant, Tommy Rettig, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6310

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1955 high-class soap opera from clever people who should have known better is campy and amusingly overheated. The Cobweb is set in an exclusive psychiatric clinic, where the patients clash with the […]

Nov, 25

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