Derek Winnert

Bitter Springs ** (1950, Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue) – Classic Movie Review 11,325

Ealing’s ‘adventure story of the Australian bush’. Director Ralph Smart’s 1950 British/ Australian black and white adventure film Bitter Springs stars Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson and Jean Blue. Ealing Studios’ sturdy Kangaroo Western […]

Jun, 19 · in Uncategorized

Bitter Sweet *** (1940, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Felix Bressart, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 11,324

Noël Coward was bitter: ‘This vulgar orgy of tenth-rate endeavour.’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1940 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who are sweet in this welcome remake of […]

Jun, 19 · in Uncategorized

Bitter Sweet **** (1933, Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Miles Mander, Ivy St Helier) – Classic Movie Review 11,323

Herbert Wilcox: ‘Surely a better musical play has never been written’. Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1933 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Anna Neagle as a dancer called Sarah Linden, now a gray-haired old woman, who tells […]

Jun, 19

New Face in Hell [P J] ** (1968, George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Coleen Gray) – Classic Movie Review 11,322

‘Gun in one hand… Woman in the other!’ Director John Guillermin’s 1967 Universal Pictures thriller New Face in Hell [P J] stars George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brock Peters and Susan Saint James. […]

Jun, 18

Sweethearts **** (1938, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger) – Classic Movie Review 11,321

‘Exquisite music, sparkling romance for the King and Queen of song!’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 MGM musical Sweethearts is based on the operetta by Victor Herbert, and stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson […]

Jun, 18

New Mexico ** (1951, Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Lloyd Corrigan, John Hoyt, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,320

‘ARROW-STREAKED ADVENTURE! BULLET-SCARRED STORY!!!’ Director Irving Reis’s interesting if historically inaccurate 1951 Western film New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as nice US Cavalry captain Hunt who fully understands the Native Americans’ understandable grievances, but when […]

Jun, 18

New Moon **** (1940, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 11,319

‘The King and Queen of Song… gloriously together again… in a red-blooded romance… of moonlight and music… love and danger… buccaneers and beauties!’ Producer-director Robert Z Leonard’s 1940 MGM musical New Moon is based on […]

Jun, 18

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