Derek Winnert

Michael Shayne: Private Detective ***½ (1940, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 11,238

Lloyd Nolan stars as Brett Halliday’s wisecracking private detective Michael Shayne in the first of the actor’s seven 20th Century Fox support thrillers. Director Eugene Forde’s 1940 black and white mystery thriller Michael Shayne: Private […]

May, 24 · in Reviews

One Way Street *** (1950, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 11,237

The solid and satisfying 1950 film noir crime drama One Way Street stars James Mason as Dr Frank Matson, who runs off to Mexico with his mob boss patient (Dan Duryea)’s stash of cash and […]

May, 24 · in Reviews

One-Way Ticket *** (1935, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 11,236

‘SIRENS SHRIEKED THEIR SONG OF LOVE!’ Director Herbert Biberman’s 1935 Columbia Pictures black and white B-movie romantic crime melodrama One-Way Ticket is based on a novel by Ethel Turner, and stars Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin […]

May, 24

The Magnificent Matador [The Brave and the Beautiful] ** (1955, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Manuel Rojas, Richard Denning, Thomas Gomez, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 11,235

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1955 romantic drama The Magnificent Matador [The Brave and the Beautiful] stars Anthony Quinn as Luís Santos, the star bullfighter coming to the end of his career and putting a young lad […]

May, 23

Magnificent Obsession **** (1935, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Ralph Morgan, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 11,234

Universal’s 1935 black and white weepie romantic melodrama Magnificent Obsession is based on the 1929 novel by Lloyd C Douglas, and stars Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. ‘She HATED Him in self-defence… because she hungered […]

May, 23

The Main Attraction * (1962, Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling, Kieron Moore, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 11,233

‘He’s In Trouble With That “Suzie Wong” Girl’ Director Daniel Petrie’s 1962 romance The Main Attraction stars clean-cut Pat Boone, in an unlikely piece of casting, as a sexy young American singer called Eddie, a […]

May, 23

Sammy Going South [A Boy Ten Feet Tall] *** (1963, Edward G Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings) – Classic Movie Review 11,232

‘Incredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers!’ Director Alexander Mackendrick’s 1963 adventure Sammy Going South [A Boy Ten Feet Tall] is based on the novel by W H Canaway and is a heartwarming […]

May, 22

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