Derek Winnert

Song of Surrender **½ (1949, Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey) – Classic Movie Review 12,157

Claude Rains again stars as a tyrant bullying his much younger wife, in the 1949 romantic melodrama Song of Surrender. Director Mitchell Leisen’s slickly played 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic melodrama Song of […]

Jun, 04 · in Reviews

The Seventh Survivor *** (1941, Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,156

A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another […]

Jun, 02 · in Reviews

Just Off Broadway *** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter) – Classic Movie Review 12,155

Phil Silvers plays annoying news photographer Roy Higgins, who gets in the way of private detective Michael Shayne, in Lloyd Nolan’s penultimate film appearance in the series.  Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1942 black and white […]

Jun, 01

Dressed to Kill *** (1941, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 12,154

Private investigator Michael Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a woman screaming from a room in their hotel, where the maid has discovered two dead theatrical folk, one wearing a dog costume […]

Jun, 01

Sleepers West ***½ (1941, Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy, Don Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 12,153

Lloyd Nolan stars again as Brett Halliday’s private detective Michael Shayne in the 1941 thriller Sleepers West, the second of seven 20th Century Fox support features made from 1940 to 1942. Director Eugene Ford’s complex, […]

May, 31

Blue, White and Perfect *** (1941, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves, Steve Geray, Curt Bois, Marie Blake, Mae Marsh, Frank Orth) – Classic Movie Review 12,152

The tough-nosed 1941 noir crime film Blue, White and Perfect stars Lloyd Nolan as private eye Michael Shayne, who chases secrets agents who are flogging diamonds to the Nazis. The 1941 noir film Blue, White […]

May, 31

The Man Who Wouldn’t Die *** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Henry Wilcoxon, Helene Reynolds, Richard Derr, Paul Harvey, Olin Howland, Billy Bevan) – Classic Movie Review 12,151

‘An Empty Grave… A Cunning, Gunning Ghost… And Michael Shayne!’ The eerie and atmospheric 1942 noir mystery thriller film The Man Who Wouldn’t Die again stars Lloyd Nolan, who is excellent in another extremely capable […]

May, 31

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