Derek Winnert

The Gift of Love * (1958, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie) – Classic Movie Review 6311

Director Jean Negulesco’s 1958 drama is a simply ghastly, uber-treacly remake of 1946’s Sentimental Journey (with John Payne and Maureen O’Hara), this time with the wrong stars in Robert Stack and Lauren Bacall as physicist Bill Beck […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

Bright Leaf **** (1950, Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Donald Crisp, Jack Carson, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 6309

Cast against type, Gary Cooper stars effectively as ruthlessly ambitious outsider Brant Royle in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky, surprisingly little-known 1950 film of Victorian Texas tobacco-growing folk who spend most of their time wrecking marriages, […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

Confidential Agent ** (1945, Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, George Coulouris, Wanda Hendrix, George Zucco, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 6,308

Warner Bros’ 1945 American spy film Confidential Agent stars Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, and is based on the novel by Graham Greene, who strongly defended both the film and Bacall against widespread attack. Director Herman Shumlin’s […]

Nov, 25

Sleeper **** (1973, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer, John McLiam, Marya Small) – Classic Movie Review 6307

Co-writer/ director/ star Woody Allen’s hilarious 1973 comedy comes from his fresh, happy, carefree knockabout comedy salad days. He was 29 at the time. Written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, it is an infectiously exuberant, […]

Nov, 24

Sleep, My Love *** (1948, Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Hazel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 6306

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1948 film noir mystery thriller tells a rather familiar suspense story about a conniving Richard Courtland (Don Ameche) trying to drive his rich wife Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) insane so that he can […]

Nov, 24

A Run for Your Money *** (1949, Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness) – Classic Movie Review 6305

Co-writer/ director Charles Frend’s modest but amiable 1949 British comedy stars Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as Welsh coal-mining brothers David ‘Dai Number 9’ Jones and Thomas ‘Twm’ Jones. The duo come to London to support […]

Nov, 24

Taza, Son of Cochise *** (1954, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 6304

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1954 3D Western is his sole trip out West. It is a follow-up to 1950’s Broken Arrow with the star of that film, Jeff Chandler (again playing the Apache chief Cochise), staying […]

Nov, 24

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