Derek Winnert

Flying Down to Rio **** (1933, Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2960

Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]

Oct, 05 · in Reviews

Wuthering Heights ***** (1939, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Hugh Williams, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 2,959

Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon star as Heathcliff and Cathy in the 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s enchanting classic novel Wuthering Heights. Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version […]

Oct, 05 · in Reviews

WUSA **** (1970, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle, Don Gordon, Robert Quarry, Clifton James, David Huddleston, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 2958

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s ambitious 1970 drama is a painstaking, involving and intelligent political allegory, with meaty roles for Paul Newman, his wife Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins, who reward audiences with careful, winning performances. Newman […]

Oct, 05

Sword of Sherwood Forest *** (1960 Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Nigel Green, Richard Pasco) – Classic Movie Review 2957

Director Terence Fisher’s enjoyable 1960 TV adventure spinoff finds the Hammer Films studio temporarily abandoning horror films and bringing in Richard Greene, the star of Fifties TV’s long-running The Adventures of Robin Hood, to re-create his […]

Oct, 05

The Gay Falcon **** (1941, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Anne Hunter, Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Turhan Bey, Arthur Shields) – Classic Movie Review 2956

Michael Arlen’s suave, debonair detective The Falcon featured in 16 above-average B-movies in the 1940s. George Sanders played the character in four movies until his brother Tom Conway took over. John Calvert starred in the […]

Oct, 05

The Gay Divorcee ***** (1934, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2955

Director Mark Sandrich’s enchanting 1934 musical stars the magical duo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who are an unalloyed delight in their initial star pairing after their success together in supporting roles in Flying […]

Oct, 04

Follow the Fleet ***** (1936, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Russell Hicks, Astrid Allwyn) – Classic Movie Review 2954

Director Mark Sandrich’s magical 1936 musical is the fifth movie of the much-loved ten film dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire and Randolph Scott play singin’ and dancin’ sailors who have eyes for […]

Oct, 04

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