Derek Winnert

Shanghai Express ***** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette) – Movie Review 2950

Director Josef von Sternberg’s richly enjoyable 1932 romantic adventure again stars his protégée Marlene Dietrich, who appears on her finest form as a notorious ‘lady of the sleeping cars’, Shanghai Lil. The infamously loose woman […]

Oct, 03 · in Uncategorized

The Scarlet Pimpernel ***** (1935, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2,949

Leslie Howard enjoys himself enormously as both foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and a brave French Revolution vigilante, in the high-spirited 1935 British adventure movie The Scarlet Pimpernel. ‘They seek him here. They seek him there. […]

Oct, 03 · in Uncategorized

The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03

The Scarlet Empress ***** (1934, Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C Aubrey Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2,936

Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in Josef von Sternberg’s 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, a spectacular, visually thrilling historical romantic biopic. Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef […]

Oct, 03

The Drowning Pool *** (1975, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Melanie Griffith, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Richard Jaeckel, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2,935

The 1975 mystery thriller film The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, reprising his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper in the sequel to his 1966 hit Harper [The Moving Target]. Director Stuart […]

Oct, 03

The Blood of Fu Manchu * (1968, Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Tsai Chin, Shirley Eaton, Howard Marion-Crawford, Götz George, Maria Rohm) – Classic Movie Review 2947

Director Jesús Franco’s crime thriller horror movie is the fifth and concluding chapter in Christopher Lee’s Fu Manchu cycle of movies. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford (as scientist Doctor Petrie) and Tsai Chin (as Fu’s daughter Lin […]

Oct, 03

The Castle of Fu Manchu * (1969, Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford, Tsai Chin, Günther Stoll, Maria Perschy) – Classic Movie Review 2946

Director Jesús Franco’s rather tedious and shoddily made 1969 fourth and penultimate Christopher Lee appearance as Asian super-villain Fu Manchu nevertheless has its brashly eye-catching moments. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford and Tsai Chin (as Lin […]

Oct, 03

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