Derek Winnert

Baby Face **** (1933, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook) – Classic Movie Review 5,423

‘She had it and made it pay!’ The controversial, even notorious, sexually provocative 1933 drama film Baby Face stars Barbara Stanwyck, alluringly costumed by Orry-Kelly. ‘She had it and made it pay!’ Director Alfred E […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Waterloo Bridge **** (1940, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson) – Classic Movie Review 5422

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1940 vintage black and white MGM romance Waterloo Bridge is a sweet, tear-jerking winner, although it cries out for Technicolor when Joseph Ruttenberg shoots it in black and white. Though Vivien Leigh […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Waterloo Bridge **** (1931, Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 5421

Director James Whale’s 1931 Universal Pictures vintage romance is the first of three versions of Robert E Sherwood’s play, which made good movies but had a disappointingly short run on the Broadway stage. Kent Douglass […]

May, 08

The Waterloo Bridge Handicap *** (1978, Leonard Rossiter, Lynda Bellingham, Gorden Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 5420

Writer/ producer/ director Ross Cramer’s 1978 British comedy short film about commuters on the 8.15 from Surbiton train racing up north to central London from Waterloo Station on the River Thames’s South Bank via Waterloo Bridge […]

May, 08

Design for Living *** (1933, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 5419

Noël Coward’s enjoyably ambiguous ménage à trois play gets the famous golden touch from producer-director Ernst Lubitsch, in this light-hearted, fairly sparkling 1933 movie version of a great sophisticated night in the theatre. The star […]

May, 07

Branded *** (1950, Alan Ladd, Charles Bickford, Mona Freeman, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Peter Hansen, Selena Royle) – Classic Movie Review 5418

Director Rudolph Maté’s robust 1950 Western stars Alan Ladd, who plays a cool crook baddie called Choya, posing as cattle baron Charles Bickford’s and his wife Selena Royle’s long-vanished son, abducted years ago to swindle […]

May, 07

Dragonfly ** (2002, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, Susanna Thompson, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 5417

Kevin Costner stars as Dr Joe Darrow, who is dogged by strange events when he tries to get over the recent death of his wife. Could she be trying to contact him? Director Tom Shadyac’s […]

May, 07

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