Derek Winnert

It’s Always Fair Weather *** (1955, Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd) – Classic Movie Review 5673

Back on the town, following On the Town (1949) that is, three wartime GI buddies, Ted (Gene Kelly), Doug (Dan Dailey) and Angie (Michael Kidd), meet up again at a New York bar on 11 October […]

Jun, 26 · in Reviews

Three Little Words *** (1950, Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gale Robbins, Gloria DeHaven, Debbie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5672

Here’s Fred Astaire without his regular partner Ginger Rogers but instead cast with Vera-Ellen and Debbie Reynolds in director Richard Thorpe’s just above par-for-the-course 1950 MGM musical about those witty songwriters Bert Kalmar (Astaire) and […]

Jun, 26 · in Reviews

The Belle of New York ** (1952, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Majorie Main, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 5671

Director Charles Walters makes a 1952 MGM musical with Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Majorie Main and Keenan Wynn. The spirits rise – but only to fall again, because this is a dull rendition of the Harry […]

Jun, 26

The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noir] *** (1964, Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Dawn Addams, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 5,670

The young Alain Delon cuts a glorious dash – or a couple of dashes – in twin roles as French brothers Julien and Guillaume de Saint-Preux, in the entertaining 1964 French swashbuckler film The Black […]

Jun, 26

Blackboard Jungle *** (1955, Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 5669

It is hard now to know from the movie exactly why, but writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1955 film exposé of teen trouble in the classrooms of New York, based on Evan Hunter’s novel, shocked the authorities […]

Jun, 26

Michael Clayton **** (2007, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O’Keefe, Sydney Pollack, Ken Howard) – Classic Movie Review 5,668

Tony Gilroy’s 2007 paranoia legal thriller Michael Clayton is intelligent, complex, engrossing and thrilling. George Clooney is ideal as a high-priced New York City law firm’s fixer. Tilda Swinton won an Oscar and Tom Wilkinson […]

Jun, 26

Black Dragons ** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke) – Classic Movie Review 5667

Director William Nigh’s 1942 Black Dragons is a sinister and extremely weird wartime thriller, starring Bela Lugosi as brilliant scientist Dr Melcher, who is instructed by Japan’s fiendish Black Dragon Society to go to Japan on a […]

Jun, 25

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