Derek Winnert

The Solid Gold Cadillac **** (1956, Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, John Williams, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5702

Director Richard Quine’s entertaining 1956 comedy stars the fizzy, utterly delightful Judy Holliday as Laura Partridge, a resting actress and a small shareholder in a big business, owning just 10 shares. She upsets the corporate […]

Jul, 03 · in Uncategorized

The Marrying Kind **** (1952, Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 5701

Director George Cukor’s 1952 Columbia Pictures black and white movie is an engaging bitter-sweet comedy, with laughs and serious undertones, about the marriage breakup of married couple Florence ‘Florrie’ and Chet Keefer (Judy Holliday and […]

Jul, 03 · in Uncategorized

Uncle Silas *** (1947, Jean Simmons, Derrick De Marney, Katina Paxinou, Derek Bond, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 5700

Jean Simmons stars in the 1947 British locked-room mystery drama Uncle Silas, a properly creepy and eerie film adaptation of the J Sheridan Le Fanu classic chiller novel. Jean Simmons stars in the 1947 British […]

Jul, 03

Union Depot **** (1932, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Blondell, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, George Rosener, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 5699

Director Alfred E Green’s 1932 Warner Bros drama is a tastily mixed cocktail of assorted lives at a central railway station, among them gentleman-thief Chick Miller (Douglas Fairbanks Jr), stuck and stranded, out-of-work showgirl Ruth Collins (Joan […]

Jul, 02

High Wall *** (1947, Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick, H B Warner) – Classic Movie Review 5,698

Audrey Totter grabs a grand opportunity to shine in the 1947 film noir High Wall as a caring asylum doctor who wants to know whether her crazed patient (Robert Taylor) has murdered his wife. Director […]

Jul, 02

The Tall T **** (1957, Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier) – Classic Movie Review 5697

‘ Taut! Torrid! Tremendous! T Is for Terror!’ Director Budd Boetticher’s tense, punchy, excellent 1957 cult Western The Tall T has a satisfying load of fist-fighting action and a rousing finale as rancher Pat Brennan (Randolph […]

Jul, 02

The Tall Target ***½ (1951, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, Ruby Dee, Richard Rober, Will Geer) – Classic Movie Review 5696

Director Anthony Mann’s pacy, sharp, suspenseful, tension-packed 1951 train thriller is set in 1861 on a New York to Washington DC train via Baltimore. The movie stands out from the crowd in that the Tall […]

Jul, 02

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