Derek Winnert

Red Dust **** (1932, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 2754

‘He treated ’em rough and they loved it…’ Co-producer/director Victor Fleming’s sizzling 1932 MGM romantic adventure comedy movie Red Dust boasts the memorable, sexy pairing of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in a romantic tussle […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Mogambo *** (1953, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 2753

Director John Ford’s 1953 MGM romantic adventure comedy movie stars the great, sexy team of Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly, whose lustrous allure is the film’s evident recommendation. Based on the play Red Dust […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Moby Dick *** (1956, Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, Harry Andrews, James Robertson Justice, Bernard Miles, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 2752

Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]

Jul, 29

Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear **** (1988, Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil) – Classic Movie Review 2751

Writer-director George A Romero’s edge-of-seat, uber-gripping 1988 thriller boasts plenty of high anxiety, tension and chills throughout. Jason Beghe stars as Allan Mann, an athlete, cut down in his prime by a road accident and […]

Jul, 29

Koyaanisqatsi ***** (1982, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 2750

Director Godfrey Reggio points his time-lapse cameras at America in the breath-taking 1982 documentary Koyaanisqatsi that stuns the eye and brain, and provides a totally hypnotic experience. Reggio comes up with an apparently endless sequence […]

Jul, 29

Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom] ***** (1929) – Classic Movie Review 2749

‘I am the camera eye. I am the mechanical eye. I am the machine which shows you the world as only I can see it.’ Director Dziga Vertov’s influential, light-hearted, fascinating 1929 Russian abstract documentary […]

Jul, 29

So Big *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright) – Classic Movie Review 2,748

The 1932 movie So Big has the distinction of starring two great movie queens – Barbara Stanwyck, very much the star here, and Bette Davis, who catches the eye in a smallish role. Director William […]

Jul, 29

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