Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

They Who Dare ** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, Gérard Oury, Eric Pohlmann, David Peel) – Classic Movie Review 11,494

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1954 British war film They Who Dare tells a mildly stirring World War Two story about British lads going on a commando raid on German-occupied Rhodes, Greece. They Who Dare offers lots […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

They Were Expendable **** (1945, John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 11,493

Director John Ford’s 1945 American war film They Were Expendable is a moving wartime salute to the torpedo crews in the Pacific during World War Two, made by a production team still fresh from the […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Affair in Havana ** (1957, John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane) – Classic Movie Review 11,492

Director László Benedek’s enjoyably twisty, well handled, entertainingly acted 1957 black and white film noir crime film Affair in Havana is written by Burton Lane and Maurice Zimm, and stars John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr and […]

Aug, 18

They Were So Young [Mannequins für Rio] ** (1954, Scott Brady, Raymond Burr, Johanna Matz) – Classic Movie Review 11,491

Director Kurt Neumann’s rare and unusual 1954 German-American black and white noir crime drama film They Were So Young [Mannequins für Rio] has a screenplay written by Felix Lützkendorf and Kurt Neumann, and the blacklisted […]

Aug, 18

Unmasked *** (1950, Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 11,490

Republic Pictures’ lively 1950 black and white crime thriller film Unmasked stars Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr and Hillary Brooke. ‘Smeared by Scandal that led to MURDER! SHOCK STORY of a VICIOUS RACKET! SHAKEDOWN […]

Aug, 18

Walk a Crooked Mile *** (1948, Dennis O’Keefe, Louis Hayward, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 11,489

FBI director J Edgar Hoover forced them to change the title from FBI vs Scotland Yard to Walk a Crooked Mile (1948). Director Gordon Douglas’s rousing little 1948 black and white film noir crime Cold War […]

Aug, 18

The Red Pony *** (1949, Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Peter Miles, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Margaret Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 11,488

Producer-director Lewis Milestone’s 1949 American rural drama children’s film The Red Pony is Republic Pictures’ version of John Steinbeck’s three stories (The Gift, Leader of the People, The Promise) about a boy called Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), […]

Aug, 17

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