Derek Winnert

The Desert Hawk ** (1950, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, George Macready, Rock Hudson, Jackie Gleason, Joie Besser) – Classic Movie Review 10,635

Director Frederick de Cordova’s handsome, feisty, infectiously gleeful 1950 Universal International Pictures Technicolor fantasy adventure The Desert Hawk stars Yvonne De Carlo as Princess Scheherazade and Richard Greene as Omar the blacksmith, aka The Desert […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Desert Bloom **** (1986, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish) – Classic Movie Review 10,634

Director Eugene Corr’s 1986 drama Desert Bloom is the exceptionally moving, bitter-sweet tale of a 13-year-old girl Rose Chismore (Annabeth Gish)’s awakening amid family turmoil and all the flash and trash of early Fifties Las […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Dersu Uzala ***** (1975, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov) – Classic Movie Review 10,633

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1975 USSR-Japanese co-production, the adventure biographical drama Dersu Uzala, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Soviet Union) in 1976. Young imperial Russian officer, Captain Vladimir Arsenev (Yuriy Solomin), sent by […]

Dec, 06

The Far Horizons ** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale) – Classic Movie Review 10,632

The rousing 1955 historical romantic Western adventure film The Far Horizons is the only major American movie about the 1803-06 Lewis and Clark expedition despite being a landmark event in American history. Director Rudolph Maté’s […]

Dec, 05

The Oregon Trail ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull, John Carradine, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 10,631

Fred MacMurray stars as Eastern newspaper reporter Neal Harris, who comes West on a wagon-train pioneers story and helps to smooth the way between Indians and settlers in mid-19th century Oregon, in co-writer/ director Gene […]

Dec, 05

The Oregon Trail (1936, John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Joseph W Girard) – Classic Movie Review 10,630

Director Scott Pembroke’s 1936 Republic Pictures black and white short (59 minutes) Western film The Oregon Trail stars the 29-year-old John Wayne as retired US Army Captain John Delmont, out to avenge his father’s killer, left […]

Dec, 05

Oscar and Lucinda ** (1997, Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,629

Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]

Dec, 05

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