Derek Winnert

Beat the Devil **** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,664

John Huston’s quirky and likable 1953 comedy action adventure classic film Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the go-between for a gang of uranium racketeers who want to exploit land in Africa. […]

Jul, 04 · in Reviews

Five Graves to Cairo **** (1943, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 2663

Director Billy Wilder’s dynamic 1943 World War Two wartime suspense thriller is set in June 1942 in the North African desert where a small, isolated Saharan hotel inn named the Empress of Britain is owned by […]

Jul, 04 · in Reviews

The Major and the Minor **** (1942, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 2662

The Viennese immigrant Billy Wilder finally fulfils his ambition to direct his first American movie in 1942 in this highly enjoyable, bubbly vintage comedy, based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. Ginger Rogers gives […]

Jul, 03

Fedora **** (1978, William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegarde Knef, José Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2661

Director Billy Wilder’s horribly undervalued final film from 1978 is fittingly a report on the movie business’s excesses and an attack on Hollywood’s youth-oriented culture, told in flashback. Marthe Keller stars as a dotty, reclusive old […]

Jul, 03

Ted 2 **** (2015, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Morgan Freeman, voice of Seth MacFarlane) – Movie Review

With the help of some seamless CGI, talking bear Ted (voice of Seth MacFarlane) marries Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) but after a year they’re rowing badly. Ted’s lifetime best pal John (Mark Wahlberg) agrees he needs to have a […]

Jul, 03

FernGully: The Last Rainforest *** (1992, voices of Jonathan Ward, Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Christian Slater, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2660

Director Bill Kroyer’s commendably green 1992 Australian-American fantasy environmental film is a musical mix of animation and reality. It is set within the expanses of a great fictitious Australian rain-forest, whose magical fairy inhabitants fight to save their […]

Jul, 02

Lethal Weapon 3 ** (1992, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, Stuart Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 2659

‘Nobody’s dead.’ ‘Hey, the night’s young.’  Yes, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover (as rogue cops Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh) and Joe Pesci (as Leo Getz) reunite for director Richard Donner’s fast-talking, action packed but somewhat […]

Jul, 02

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