Derek Winnert

In Love and War *** (1996, Sandra Bullock, Chris O’Donnell, Mackenzie Astin) – Classic Movie Review 3395

Chris O’Donnell is nice but lacks fire and steel as reporter-ambulance driver-author Ernest Hemingway, though Sandra Bullock fares better as feisty Agnes von Kurowsky, the nurse who looks after him after being wounded in World […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

In Love and War *** (1958, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen, Dana Wynter) – Classic Movie Review 3,394

The 1958 movie In Love and War is the third pairing of Fifties heartthrobs Jeffrey Hunter and Robert Wagner, telling the story of the World War Two lives and loves of three US Marines.  Director […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

The True Story of Jesse James **** (1957, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Agnes Moorehead, Hope Lange, John Carradine, Alan Hale Jnr, Alan Baxter, Frank Gorshin) – Classic Movie Review 3,393

The 1957 action biopic The True Story of Jesse James takes a fresh look at the Western tale of the James Brothers, and has strong work from Robert Wagner (as Jesse James) and Jeffrey Hunter […]

Feb, 21

Advise & Consent ***** (1962, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Lew Ayres, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Ford, Peter Lawford, Edward Andrews, Burgess Meredith, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 3392

Producer-director Otto Preminger’s superb 1962 political thriller boasts  a wonderful array of old Sixties star character actors doing their unique and eccentric things. Despite all the valiant efforts of Henry Fonda as Robert Leffingwell, Walter Pidgeon […]

Feb, 20

Whirlpool **** (1949, Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O’Neil, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 3391

Otto Preminger is reunited with his Laura (1944) star Gene Tierney for the thoroughly enjoyable 1949 film noir murder mystery Whirlpool.  Producer-director Otto Preminger is reunited with his Laura (1944) star Gene Tierney for the […]

Feb, 20

Fourteen Hours **** (1951, Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith, Howard Da Silva, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 3390

Director Henry Hathaway’s ultra-tense, meticulously crafted 1951 film noir thriller is an absolutely excellent one. The exteriors are imaginatively shot on location on the streets of New York City. The building used was demolished in 1967 […]

Feb, 20

Juliet of the Spirits [Giulietta degli Spiriti] **** (1965, Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu) – Classic Movie Review 3,389

Federico Fellini’s wife Giulietta Masina is stupendous as a fantasising Rome housewife, in his 1965 first full-length colour film Juliet of the Spirits. Sandra Milo is outstanding in star support as her eccentric, high-class prostitute […]

Feb, 20

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