Derek Winnert

Park Row **** (1952, Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Herbert Heyes) – Classic Movie Review 3507

Cult name writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller draws on his own early newspaper man experiences for this very neat, taut, low-budget independent B-film drama about a newspaper editor named Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) clashing with battling a […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend ** (1957, Randolph Scott, James Garner, Angie Dickinson, Gordon Jones, James Craig) – Classic Movie Review 3506

‘He called himself the ‘Preacher’…and he wrote his sermon in lead!’ Randolph Scott, James Garner and Gordon Jones star in director Richard L Bare’s 1957 average Western movie Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend as former soldiers […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

Halls of Montezuma **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone, Jack Webb) – Classic Movie Review 3505

Director Lewis Milestone’s patriotic 1950 war movie stars Richard Widmark, who is on fine fighting form as Lieutenant Carl Anderson, the former school teacher who turns a rag-tag company of American Marines into an effective fighting […]

Mar, 26

Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

A Walk in the Sun ***** (1945, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 3,504

The 1945 classic A Walk in the Sun, about one American platoon in the 1943 invasion of Italy, is another magnificent milestone war film from producer-director Lewis Milestone. The 1945 classic A Walk in the Sun, […]

Mar, 26

Pork Chop Hill **** (1959, Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, George Shibata, Woody Strode, James Edwards, Rip Torn, George Peppard) – Classic Movie Review 3502

Director Lewis Milestone’s tough and distinguished 1959 Korean War movie places a battle for control of a strategic hill in Korea is the centre of the action. It is notable for a series of strong […]

Mar, 25

On the Beach **** (1959, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 3501

Stanley Kramer’s sombre 1959 drama film On the Beach is based on Nevil Shute’s novel depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, and stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Anthony Perkins. Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s sombre 1959 nuclear […]

Mar, 25

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