Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

The Last Hurrah **** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 3388

Director John Ford’s well-staged, effectively acted and involving if rather cosy and cuddly 1958 political drama The Last Hurrah is the second of his three distinguished films with young star Jeffrey Hunter, following The Searchers […]

Feb, 20

Julius Caesar ** (1950, Harold Tasker, Charlton Heston, David Bradley) – Classic Movie Review 3387

Charlton Heston plays Marc Antony in writer-producer-director David Bradley’s enterprising 1950 film version of the play, notable as the first with sound. Harold Tasker plays Julius Caesar and David Bradley gives himself the role of Brutus. Bradley […]

Feb, 20

Gidget Goes Hawaiian ** (1961, James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 3385

A pleasant Deborah Walley takes over from Sandra Dee as the 15-year-old ‘girl midget’ Gidget in this modest but nice-looking first sequel to Gidget (1959). And, guess what?, she’s off to Hawaii on vacation with […]

Feb, 20

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