Derek Winnert

Between Heaven and Hell ***½ (1956, Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen) – Classic Movie Review 3,402

The 1956 war drama film Between Heaven and Hell stars Robert Wagner as spoiled Southern gentleman Sam Francis Gifford, who is called up in the US Army in World War Two. Director Richard Fleischer’s realistic […]

Feb, 23 · in Reviews

The Indian Fighter ***½ (1955, Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas, Lon Chaney Jnr, Alan Hale Jnr, Elisha Cook Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 3401

Director André de Toth’s upper middle-of-the-range 1955 Western provides a good star role for Kirk Douglas, who plays The Indian Fighter conducting the wagon train across hostile Sioux land when he gets involved with a […]

Feb, 23 · in Reviews

The Big Show ** (1961, Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Nehemiah Persoff, David Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3400

This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]

Feb, 22

House of Strangers **** (1949, Edward G Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 3399

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s sombre but distinguished 1949 drama is bizarrely the first of three movies written by screenwriter Philip Yordan based on the same novel, I’ll Never Go Home Again by Jerome Weidman. Winning the Best […]

Feb, 22

The Mountain **½ (1956, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, E G Marshall, Richard Arlen) Classic Movie Review 3398

Talented producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s high-climbing 1956 drama provides more evidence that mountain movies are fiendishly tricky to do, as they higher they climb the farther they fall. Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner play brothers Zachary […]

Feb, 22

The Hi-Lo Country *** (1998, Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3397

Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup give impressive performances in British director Stephen Frears’s brave, gritty, 1998 Western, set in the mid-20th century. They play World War Two veterans, Big Boy Matson and Pete Calder, who return […]

Feb, 21

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

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