Derek Winnert

Hurricane * (1979, Jason Robards Jr, Mia Farrow, Trevor Howard Max von Sydow, Dayton Ka’Ne, Timothy Bottoms, James Keach) – Classic Movie Review 5742

This wet and windy 1979 update on John Ford’s 1937 adventure movie The Hurricane re-tells the story based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about a typhoon hitting a South Seas […]

Jul, 10 · in Reviews

The Hurricane **** (1937, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 5,741

A wicked French colony Governor (Raymond Massey) and a typhoon strike the Polynesian Island of Manukura hard, in director John Ford’s rousing 1937 South Seas adventure movie The Hurricane, famed for its climactic special effects […]

Jul, 10 · in Reviews

Lovely to Look At *** (1952, Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 5740

Red Skelton stars as Al Marsh, who is bequeathed a Paris boutique and travels to France to sell the shop to stage a show in New York with Tony Naylor (Howard Keel) and Jerry Ralby […]

Jul, 10

The Desert Song **** (1953, Gordon MacRae, Kathryn Grayson, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 5739

Director Bruce Humberstone skillfully revives the antique show for his enjoyable 1953 musical adventure The Desert Song, with ideal stars in Gordon MacRae, Kathryn Grayson, Steve Cochran and Raymond Massey. This third film of Sigmund […]

Jul, 09

The Desert Song *** (1943, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 5738

Director Robert Florey’s 1943 musical movie The Desert Song is an antique show, but the fine, on-form cast of Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Victor Francen, Faye Emerson and Marcel […]

Jul, 09

Her Jungle Love *** (1938, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Lynne Overman, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5737

The genial Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland are back in the Paramount Pictures studio jungle (after their 1936 hit The Jungle Princess) for this second romantic comedy adventure, directed by George Archainbaud in 1938. It […]

Jul, 09

The Jungle Princess *** (1936, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 5736

‘Her exotic beauty held all the allure of the tropic jungle!’ Dorothy Lamour makes her star movie début at the age of 22 in the kind of role for which she will always be remembered […]

Jul, 09

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