Derek Winnert

Annie Oakley **** (1935, Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton, Andy Clyde, Chief Thunderbird) – Classic Movie Review 10,482

‘CUPID WAS THE BEST MARKSMAN!’ Director George Stevens’s 1935 Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck in her debut Western as the sharpshootin’ heroine Annie Oakley, who romances marksman Toby Walker (Preston Foster), causing friction along the […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

Anne of Windy Poplars ** (1940, Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 10,481

Anne Shirley is back as the imaginative orphan lass Anne Shirley in Jack Hively’s 1940 Anne of Windy Poplars, a second attractive but not quite so appealing RKO adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery children’s classic, […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

An Annapolis Story [The Blue and the Gold] * (1955, John Derek, Diana Lynn, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 10,480

‘Two Brothers Loving the Same Girl… As Dangerous as a Runaway Jet!’ Director Don Siegel’s disappointing, over-familiar 1953 American flag-waving patriotic soap opera An Annapolis Story [The Blue and the Gold] stars John Derek and […]

Oct, 30

Anne of Green Gables *** (1934, Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O P Heggie, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 10,479

‘FICTION’S MOST BELOVED HEROINE REALLY LIVES!’ Director George Nichols Jr’s 1934 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama Anne of Green Gables is a lovely adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s children’s classic about an imaginative […]

Oct, 29

A Man to Remember *** (1938, Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 10,478

Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama A Man to Remember stars Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis and Lee Bowman. It is the flashback-told biography of a selfless town doctor, Doctor John […]

Oct, 29

The Great Waltz **** (1938, Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 10,477

MGM’s life of Johann Strauss Jr – the splendid 1938 musical biopic film The Great Waltz – gets the lavish production and high-flying European stars. ‘Your beating heart, your pounding pulse will tell you it’s […]

Oct, 29

Three Wise Girls *** (1932, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Walter Byron) – Classic Movie Review 10,476

‘YOU WILL BE SHOCKED by these Clever Coin Chasers.’ Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a […]

Oct, 28

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