Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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