Derek Winnert

Say One for Me ** (1959, Debbie Reynolds, Bing Crosby, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 10,809

Robert Wagner supports Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds in the mix of comedy, musical and romance that is Say One for Me (1959). It was nominated for one Oscar: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

The Happy Years *** (1950, Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 10,808

Director William A Wellman’s 1950 MGM Technicolor comedy The Happy Years stars Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore and Leo G Carroll. Craggy, crusty but essentially nice fuddy-duddy old Englishman called […]

Jan, 19 · in Uncategorized

Rag Doll [Young, Willing and Eager] *** (1961, Jess Conrad, Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith, Christina Gregg, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,807

The 1961 British B-movie crime film Rag Doll gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Jess Conrad’s elevation to cult status as a pre-Beatles British icon. Director Lance Comfort’s 1961 crime drama […]

Jan, 19

The Seduction of Joe Tynan **** (1979, Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Melvyn Douglas, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 10,806

‘There are many ways to be seduced. Fame. Power. Love. Joe Tynan knows them all.’ Director Jerry Schatzberg’s entertaining and involving 1979 political drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan about the slippery path to success […]

Jan, 18

Secrets of the Phantom Caverns [What Waits Below] (1984, Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson, Anne Heywood) – Classic Movie Review 10,805

Archaeologists open up a deep cavern in South America and get the shock of their lives when they uncover a lost race of albino aliens in carpet slippers, in the hilariously awful 1984 action horror film […]

Jan, 18

The Frog Prince **** (1985, Jane Snowden, Alexandre Sterling, Diana Blackburn) – Classic Movie Review 10,804

David Puttnam produced director Brian Gilbert’s sweet and relaxing 1985 romance The Frog Prince [The French Lesson], based on a book by Nina Rootes and co-written by the director and The Guardian cartoonist Posy Simmonds, […]

Jan, 18

The Frogmen *** (1951, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 10,803

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 American black-and-white World War Two drama The Frogmen stars Richard Widmark as martinet US Navy lieutenant commander John Lawrence, who leads the WW2 wartime Underwater Demolition Team divers of the title, and wins the […]

Jan, 18

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