Derek Winnert

Kid Galahad **** (1937, Edward G Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Harry Carey Sr, Jane Bryan, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 3370

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 movie is a top-of-the-class entry in Warner Bros’ Thirties boxing-movie cycle. Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as fight promoter Nick Donati, who turns a bellhop called Ward Guisenberry (Wayne […]

Feb, 16 · in Reviews

Kid Galahad *** (1962, Elvis Presley, Charles Bronson, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 3369

Director Phil Karlson’s 1962 movie Kid Galahad is the Elvis Presley musical remake of director Michael Curtiz’s famous 1937 prize-fighter movie Kid Galahad, in which Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as the promoter […]

Feb, 16 · in Reviews

The Killer Is Loose ***½ (1956, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 3,368

‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]

Feb, 16

The Caine Mutiny **** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, Tom Tully) – Classic Movie Review 3367

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 war drama thriller The Caine Mutiny stars Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg of the United States Navy, a man so nervous to the point of being on the wrong side of […]

Feb, 15

The Left Hand of God *** (1955, Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J Cobb, E G Marshall, Agnes Moorehead, Jean Porter) – Classic Movie Review 3366

Director Edward Dmytryk’s worthy if superficial 1955 film was a prestige production but did not deserve or win any Oscars, or indeed any prizes. However, the intriguingly oddball script, Humphrey Bogart and the distinguished support […]

Feb, 15

The Barefoot Contessa **** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 3365

Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]

Feb, 15

The Harder They Fall **** (1956, Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Carlos Montalbán) – Classic Movie Review 3364

Though then tragically dying of throat cancer at 57, Humphrey Bogart goes out in a blaze of glory in his final film The Harder They Fall, with this 1956 knockout exposé of the fight game, […]

Feb, 15

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