Derek Winnert

FBI Girl *** (1951, Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,164

Raymond Burr as Blake: ‘It would be a novelty in this great country of ours, wouldn’t it? A man running for the United States Senate with a murder charge hanging over his head.’ Producer-director William […]

May, 04 · in Uncategorized

Fingers *** (1978, Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown, Marian Seldes, Danny Aiello, Tanya Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 11,162

James Toback directs his own script about a quiet virtuoso pianist, Jimmy ‘Fingers’ Angelelli (Harvey Keitel), who gets sucked into becoming a ruthless debt collector enforcing payment of debts for his Italian mob-connected loan shark […]

May, 03 · in Reviews

The Milky Way *** (1936, Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale) – Classic Movie Review 11,161

Director Leo McCarey’s amusing and enjoyable 1936 American black and white screwball comedy film The Milky Way stars Harold Lloyd as timid Brooklyn milkman Burleigh Sullivan who accidentally knocks out the boxing champ Speed McFarland […]

May, 03

The Kid from Brooklyn ** (1946, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden, Walter Abel, Lionel Stander, Fay Bainter) – Classic Movie Review 11,160

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1946 Technicolor musical The Kid from Brooklyn stars Danny Kaye as a mild milkman called Burleigh Sullivan who transforms into a punchy prize-fighter to impress pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle (Virginia […]

May, 03

Montana Moon ** (1930, Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 11,159

The 26-year-old Joan Crawford, expensively gowned by Adrian, stars as wayward and sophisticated rancher’s daughter Joan ‘Montana’ Prescott, who is tamed by Texas course cowboy Larry Kerrigan (Johnny Mack Brown), in director Malcolm St Clair’s […]

May, 02

The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] ** (1956, Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O’Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel) – Classic Movie Review 11,158

The 1956 Italian comedy-drama film The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] is the German-born Marlene Dietrich’s sole Italian movie. Writer-director Samuel A Taylor’s resolute 1956 bid to revive the style of Thirties sophisticated comedy stars Marlene Dietrich, […]

May, 02

Monte Carlo or Bust! *** (1969, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 11,157

Director Ken Annakin’s 1969 comedy Monte Carlo or Bust! [Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies] stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes, […]

May, 02

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