Derek Winnert

Till the Clouds Roll By **** (1946, Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer) – Classic Movie Review 3608

Director Richard Whorf’s striking 1946 MGM musical is a tribute to the composer/song-writer Jerome Kern, who is played by Robert Walker. The movie starts with the premiere of Show Boat and flashes back to Kern’s […]

Apr, 24 · in Uncategorized

Girl Crazy **** (1943, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton) – Classic Movie Review 3607

Mickey Rooney stars as a rich party boy called Danny Churchill Jr, who gets packed off by his dad (Henry O’Neill) to an all-male college way out West to stop him being girl crazy. But, once there, […]

Apr, 24 · in Uncategorized

The Harvey Girls **** (1946, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Virginia O’Brien, Angela Lansbury, Marjorie Main, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 3606

Director George Sidney’s delightful 1946 MGM period Western musical sees Judy Garland on her best form (as Susan Bradley) performing great numbers, including the brilliant Oscar-winning Best Original Song ‘On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa […]

Apr, 23

Five Fingers **** (1952, James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 3605

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s smart, sleek, smooth, suspenseful, satisfying espionage thriller stars a well-cast James Mason, who gives a splendid performance as a Nazi spy, L C Moyzisch aka Cicero, during World War Two. Working […]

Apr, 23

No Way Out **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Harry Bellaver) – Classic Movie Review 3604

Co-writer/director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 pioneering hospital-bound race-issue film-noir melodrama No Way Out is commendably intense and powerful. Sidney Poitier stars as Dr Luther Brooks, a young black doctor whose white patient dies; a race […]

Apr, 23

No Way Home *** (1996, Tim Roth, Deborah Kara Unger, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 3603

Tim Roth, then in 1996 carving out an American career of note, impresses as an ex-con who return to live with his lowlife older brother (James Russo) and wife (Deborah Kara Unger). Roth and Unger […]

Apr, 23

Miles Ahead *** (2015, Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director/star Don Cheadle’s labour of love biopic is a free-wheeling, impressionistic exploration of the life and music of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991). This is Cheadle’s director début […]

Apr, 23

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