Derek Winnert

Chain Lightning *** (1950, Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4,950

Humphrey Bogart stars in Warner Bros’ 1950 black and white aerospace film Chain Lightning as ex-World War Two flying ace Matt Brennan, offered a job by aircraft mogul Leland Willis (Raymond Massey) as chief test […]

Jan, 27 · in Reviews

Chains of Gold * (1991, John Travolta, Joey Lawrence, Marilu Henner, Bernie Casey, Hector Elizondo, Conchata Ferrell, Benjamin Bratt) – Classic Movie Review 4948

Director Rod Holcomb’s 1991 thriller is a missing John Travolta movie – and deservedly so – in which he plays Scott Barnes, a Miami social worker who infiltrates a dangerous drug-running street gang, run by Carlos […]

Jan, 27 · in Reviews

White Man’s Burden ** (1995, John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery) – Classic Movie Review 4947

Writer-director Desmond Nakano’s provocative 1995 drama is set in an alternative America where the blacks belong to the social elite and the whites inhabit inner city ghettos. It stars John Travolta as Louis Pinnock, a white blue-collar […]

Jan, 27

L’Auberge Rouge [The Red Inn] **** (1951, Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Julien Carette, Marie-Claire Olivia) – Classic Movie Review 4946

Fernandel’s 1951 classic movie is a gloriously macabre piece of French Grand Guignol black comedy, crisply written by the screen-writing team of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, and expertly handled by director Claude Autant-Lara, who […]

Jan, 27

Pygmalion **** (1938, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4945

Pygmalion? It was one of Shaw’s. And he won an Oscar! Directors Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s 1938 British version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion about the English speech-study professor who plots to […]

Jan, 26

Red-Headed Woman **** (1932, Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 4944

MGM painted the town red when they dyed Jean Harlow’s platinum blonde hair red for director Jack Conway’s steamy 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy movie Red-Headed Woman with its amoral tale about a very busy, man-eating gold […]

Jan, 26

The Pursuit of Happiness **½ (1971, Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein, Ruth White, E G Marshall, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 4943

‘I don’t want to run anymore…’ Michael Sarrazin stars in the 1971 crime drama The Pursuit of Happiness as a radical young college student, William Popper, who is jailed for his part in a road accident in […]

Jan, 26

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