Derek Winnert

Red Light ** (1949, George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 11,485

Producer-director Roy Del Ruth’s 1949 American film noir crime thriller Red Light stars George Raft as innocent Johnny Torno, who goes after the killers of his heroic Catholic chaplain brother Jess (Arthur Franz), when he is released from […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

The Saphead *** (1920, Buster Keaton, Beulah Booker, William H Crane, Edward Connelly, Edward Jobson) – Classic Movie Review 11,484

Buster Keaton stars as Bertie ‘The Lamb’ Van Alstyne in a remake of Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1915 The Lamb, in which he plays an upper-class twit who cannot follow a guide on how to woo […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

Sanctuary ** (1961, Lee Remick, Bradford Dillman, Yves Montand) – Classic Movie Review 11,483

Director Tony Richardson’s 1961 black and white drama Sanctuary is a sticky adaptation of a worthy but lost cause – filming William Faulkner’s stories about a 1920s Southern governor’s daughter, Temple Drake, Mrs Gowan Stevens […]

Aug, 16

San Quentin ** (1946, Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane, Marian Carr, Harry Shannon, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,482

RKO’s 1946 thriller film San Quentin features Raymond Burr, aged 29, in his credited film début as ruthless killer Jeff Torrance. Director Gordon M Douglas’s 1946 RKO Radio Pictures thriller film San Quentin features Raymond […]

Aug, 16

Sands of the Desert (1960, Charlie Drake, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 11,481

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1960 Technicolor film Sands of the Desert is a woefully inept British adventure comedy starring Charlie Drake in his first lead role in a feature film as the titular Charlie Sands, […]

Aug, 15

Petticoat Pirates * (1961, Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner) – Classic Movie Review 11,480

Director David MacDonald’s 1961 British comedy film Petticoat Pirates stars Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner, Maxine Audley, Thorley Walters and Victor Maddern. When a group of 150 women’s UK Royal Navy Wrens, commanded by officer-in-charge Chief […]

Aug, 15

The Cracksman ** (1963, Charlie Drake, Nyree Dawn Porter, George Sanders, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 11,479

Director Peter Graham Scott’s 1963 British comedy film The Cracksman stars Charlie Drake as honest locksmith Ernest Wright who is tricked by The Guv’nor (George Sanders)’s gang of safecrackers and gets locked up himself for three […]

Aug, 15

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