Derek Winnert

Night Passage *** (1957, James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Brandon de Wilde, Dianne Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5920

‘The Saga of the Brothers and the savagery of their blood feud!’ Director James Neilson’s 1957 Western Night Passage is robust, and occasionally invigorating, though in some respects obstinately ordinary. But it is strongly cast, […]

Aug, 15 · in Reviews

The Member of the Wedding **** (1952, Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5919

Director Fred Zinnemann makes a superb job of his stage-to-screen 1952 movie of Carson McCullers’s lovely play and novel The Member of the Wedding about the rites of passage of a tomboyish young girl called […]

Aug, 15 · in Reviews

Girls About Town **** (1931, Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman, Joel McCrea, Eugene Palette) – Classic Movie Review 5918

Director George Cukor’s 1931 Paramount drama is excellent vintage sophisticated, pre-Production Code-censored Thirties entertainment about sexy gold-digging ‘party girls’ Wanda Howard and Marie Bailey (Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman) providing diversion for simple, lonely businessmen staying […]

Aug, 15

Dr Crippen *** (1963, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 5,917

Donald Pleasence is ideally cast in the 1963 British film Dr Crippen as the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife. But was he really […]

Aug, 14

Dr Cyclops *** (1940, Albert Dekker, Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Frank Yaconelli) – Classic Movie Review 5916

Director Ernest B Schoedsack’s 1940 Paramount horror movie Dr Cyclops stars Albert Dekker as mad scientist Doctor Thorkel, who cuts travellers to the Amazon down to size – 14 inches actually – in this bonkers […]

Aug, 14

Made for Each Other **** (1939, Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 5,915

The 1939 drama film Made For Each Other stars James Stewart and Carole Lombard as attorney John Mason and his new young wife Jane. They may be made for each other, but they couldn’t be […]

Aug, 14

Blame it on the Bellboy *** (1992, Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Patsy Kensit) – Classic Movie Review 5914

Debut writer-director Mark Herman’s fast and funny 1992 screwball comedy is amusingly written, briskly directed and feistily performed. Dudley Moore stars in this farcical comedy about three guests with similar names staying at a Venice […]

Aug, 14

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