Derek Winnert

Captain Horatio Hornblower RN *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Terence Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 4808

Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]

Dec, 23 · in Uncategorized

For Whom the Bell Tolls **** (1943, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Cordova, Katina Paxinou) – Classic Movie Review 4807

Gary Cooper is ideally cast as Robert Jordan, Ernest Hemingway’s American soldier fighting in Spain in the 1930s, in producer-director Sam Wood’s lavish 1943 Hollywood golden years epic of the Spanish Civil War. However, Ingrid […]

Dec, 23 · in Uncategorized

Joan of Arc ** (1999, Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, John Malkovich, Timothy West) – Classic Movie Review 4806

Director Luc Besson remakes the story famous story about the French farm girl turned great martyr of Orleans in 15th century France, which provided a turgid 1948 vehicle for Ingrid Bergman, also called Joan of […]

Dec, 22

Joan of Arc ** (1948, Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, George Coulouris, Francis L Sullivan, Gene Lockhart, Ward Bond, John Ireland, Hurd Hatfield, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 4805

Garish spectacle and the authentic playing of stars Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer (as St Joan and the Dauphin) are the pluses in the 1948 historical biopic Joan of Arc. Director Victor Fleming’s 1948 historical […]

Dec, 22

La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony] **** (1946, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Desailly, Line Noro) – Classic Movie Review 4804

Michèle Morgan was the first ever winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for co-writer/ director Jean Delannoy’s moving 1946 French drama film La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony], an adaptation […]

Dec, 22

Captain Kidd *** (1945, Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland, Sheldon Leonard, Henry Daniell, John Qualen) – Classic Movie Review 4.803

Director Rowland V Lee’s lively if slack and unhistorical 1945 adventure movie Captain Kidd has the great virtue of starring the incomparable Charles Laughton as the mischievous pirate captain. He enjoys a fine old time […]

Dec, 21

Captain Fury *** (1939, Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang, John Carradine, George Zucco, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 4802

Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang, John Carradine, George Zucco and Douglass Dumbrille are a likely bunch of quirky stars in this likeable 1939 movie, a bright and breezy period adventure yarn from […]

Dec, 21

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