Derek Winnert

The Lost Moment *** (1947, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3892

The 1947 film noir-style romantic drama The Lost Moment is an attractively atmospheric oddity, based on Henry James’s 1888 novella The Aspern Papers. It greatly alters the characters and adds schizophrenia, a murder and a […]

Jun, 20 · in Reviews

What’s New Pussycat **** (1965, Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3891

Director Clive Donner’s 1965 comedy film is the quintessence of stylish, wacky Sixties nonsense. It is Woody Allen’s first film both as an actor and a writer, and stars Peter O’Toole as Michael James, an infamously compulsive […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

Little Red Monkey ***½ (1955, Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 3,890

‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS.’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, nifty and enjoyable Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona Anderson star.  Co-writer/ […]

Jun, 19

Daughter of the Dragon *** (1931, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher) – Classic Movie Review 3889

Anna May Wong stars as the young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat Princess Ling Moy, who makes an unfortunate choice of address when she comes to live next door to evil genius Dr Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), who wants […]

Jun, 19

The Mask of Fu Manchu *** (1932, Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 3888

Directors Charles Brabin and (uncredited) Charles Vidor’s 1932 horror adventure stars Boris Karloff as novelist Sax Rohmer’s creepy villain Dr Fu Manchu, the evil genius who is stirred up to new evil by the beautiful […]

Jun, 19

Three Strangers *** (1946, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 3883

Director Jean Negulesco’s forgotten 1946 film noir crime drama Three Strangers is very welcome as one of the nine pairings of the great screen team of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Also starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, […]

Jun, 19

Hollywood Canteen **** (1944, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, The Andrews Sisters) – Classic Movie Review 3882

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1944 World War Two morale-boosting musical and toast to the real-life Hollywood Canteen vastly entertains with its high spirits, good humour, good intentions, and high-quota camp and nostalgia value. As Bette Davis and […]

Jun, 19

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