Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Sirocco ***½ (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 4,273

Humphrey Bogart stars as amoral black marketeer Harry Smith in the tense and flavourful 1951 film noir Sirocco, a Casablanca-style movie about intrigue and romance in 1920s Syria. Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1951 film noir movie […]

Aug, 31 · in Reviews

Battle Circus ** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith) – Classic Movie Review 4272

Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson seem to be ideally cast as Major Jed Webbe, a cynical, boozy army major surgeon, and Lieutenant Ruth McGara, an idealistic, altruistic nurse, who fall in love while working in a […]

Aug, 31 · in Uncategorized

Apache Drums *** (1951, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields) – Classic Movie Review 4271

Esteemed horror-film expert Val Lewton produces director Hugo Fregonese’s highly intriguing 1951 B-movie Western, bringing his characteristic imaginative touch of claustrophobic atmosphere. That lifts the level of an unremarkable tale about settlers forced to defend their town […]

Aug, 30

Night Has a Thousand Eyes **** (1948, Edward G Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest, Richard Webb, Jerome Courtland) – Classic Movie Review 4270

Director John Farrow’s taut and moody 1948 little suspense thriller stars Edward G Robinson as a vaudeville theatre psychic turn, phony stage mentalist John Triton, who acquires powers of precognition and predicts that a troubled […]

Aug, 30

Café Society **** (2016, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Jeannie Berlin, Ken Stott) – Movie Review

The 80-year-old Woody Allen conjures up one of his better movies in 2016, a charming, sparkling bitter-sweet romantic comedy, with a retro 30s both coasts setting that gives him plenty of chance to show off his […]

Aug, 30

The Woman in Red *** (1984, Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Gilda Radner) – Classic Movie Review 4269

Gene Wilder writes, directs and stars in this extremely bubbly and highly amusing 1984 madcap romantic comedy The Woman in Red, based on Yves Robert’s 1976 French farcical film Pardon Mon Affaire [Un éléphant ça trompe […]

Aug, 30

The Woman in Red ** (1935, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, John Eldredge, Genevieve Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 4268

Director Robert Florey’s 1935 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond as mismatched new couple Shelby and John Wyatt, who struggle through his snobbish family’s dislike of her and charges that she has been fooling […]

Aug, 30

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