Derek Winnert

White Nights *** (1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 10,750

Director Taylor Hackford’s 1985 movie White Nights is a daft but entertaining chase-dance drama, a peculiar hybrid of musical and thriller, giving good chances to players difficult to cast. Mikhail Baryshnikov charismatically plays a Russian […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

White Sands *** (1992, Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L Jackson, M Emmet Walsh, Mimi Rogers, James Rebhorn, Beth Grant) – Classic Movie Review 10,749

Director Roger Donaldson’s 1992 action crime thriller White Sands stars Willem Dafoe as Ray Dolezal, a US southwestern small-town deputy sheriff who investigates the appearance of a mysterious corpse he finds lying next to a […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

Ferry Cross the Mersey *** (1964, Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, Cilla Black, The Fourmost) – Classic Movie Review 10,748

Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, and Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, aka Gerry and the Pacemakers, star as thinly fictionalised versions of themselves in director Jeremy Summers’s 1964 black and white musical film Ferry Cross the […]

Jan, 04

White Woman (1933, Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,747

Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]

Jan, 03

Island of Lost Men *** (1939, Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Eric Blore, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 10,746

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]

Jan, 03

King of Chinatown *** (1939, Anna May Wong, Anthony Quinn, J Carrol Naish, Akim Tamiroff, Sidney Toler, Philip Ahn) – Classic Movie Review 10,745

Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 black and white crime thriller King of Chinatown is an intriguingly written, fast-moving and atmospheric mob story that rattles along thanks to effective performances and tough action scenes. Akim Tamiroff stars […]

Jan, 03

Real Men (1987, Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,744

Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]

Jan, 03

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