Derek Winnert

Robinson Crusoe on Mars ***½ (1964, Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West) – Classic Movie Review 5416

A daft exploitation movie title hides director Byron Haskin’s imaginative, intelligent and involving 1964 Sci-Fi version of Daniel Defoe’s classic tale with Paul Mantee as Commander Kit Draper, a US astronaut whose craft is afflicted […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Beau Brummell *** (1954, Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 5415

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1954 MGM movie Beau Brummell is a visually captivating and engaging enough remake of the 1924 silent in which John Barrymore cemented his silent superstar status as Beau Brummell. Stewart Granger and […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Beau Geste ** (1966, Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 5414

Beau Geste (1966): Guy Stockwell and Doug McClure star as American brothers Beau and John Geste who join the French Foreign Legion, suffer under nasty Sgt Major Dagineau (Telly Savalas), and fight rampaging Arabs in […]

May, 07

Beau Geste **** (1939, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5413

‘The love of a man for a woman wanes and waxes like the moon… but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars, and endures like the word of the Prophet.’ Producer-director […]

May, 07

Beau Geste **** (1926, Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 5,412

The 1926 French Foreign Legion adventure movie Beau Geste is an outstanding silent film of P C Wren’s tale of English brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste (Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes and Neil Hamilton). Director […]

May, 07

Under Two Flags *** (1936, Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 5411

Quintessential Englishman Ronald Colman is at his most spirited, lively and stylish, as Sergeant Victor, an Englishman who joins up in the French Foreign Legion since taking the blame for his brother’s crime, in director […]

May, 07

Beau Hunks *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 5410

‘Love comes: Mr Hardy is at last conscious of the grand passion – Mr Laurel isn’t even conscious of the Grand Canyon.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy enlist in the Foreign Legion when Ollie tries […]

May, 07

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