Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Greeks Had a Word for Them **** (1932, Ina Claire, Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, David Manners, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 12,519

The delicious vintage 1932 comedy film The Greeks Had a Word for Them stars Ina Claire, Joan Blondell, Madge Evans. It is the first filming of Zoë Atkins’ play about three New York gold-diggers trawling […]

May, 27 · in Reviews

Stambul Garden [Räuberhände] *** (2021, Emil von Schönfels, Mekyas Mulugeta, Katharina Behrens) – Classic Movie Review 12,518

Emil von Schönfels stars in director Ilker Çatak’s involving 2021 coming-of-age film Stambul Garden [Räuberhände] as German teenage boy Janik, whose friendship with his best friend Samuel (Mekyas Mulugeta) is sorely tested by a crazy, […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

The Greek Tycoon (1978, Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset) – Classic Movie Review 12,517

Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset star agreeably in director J Lee Thompson’s turgid and trashy 1978 American biographical romantic drama film The Greek Tycoon, written by Mort Fine, so the script should be fine, but […]

May, 26

The Green Scarf ** (1954, Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Richard O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 12,516

The 1954 British mystery thriller film The Green Scarf stars Michael Redgrave as a bearded French lawyer who defends a deaf, dumb and blind novelist (Kieron Moore) accused of killing a man in a seemingly […]

May, 26

Green Dolphin Street ** (1947, Lana Turner, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 12,515

MGM’s 1947 historical disaster film Green Dolphin Street is an over-busy and unconvincing melodrama set in 19th-century New Zealand, where sisters Lana Turner and Donna Reed are vying for Richard Hart, romantic rival to Van […]

May, 26

The Green Cockatoo *** (1937, John Mills, René Ray, Robert Newton, Charles Oliver, Bruce Seton) – Classic Movie Review 12,514

The entertaining 1937 British crime drama film The Green Cockatoo stars John Mills as a song and dance man trying to avenge his brother (Robert Newton)’s death at the hands of vicious crooks. ‘She Lost […]

May, 26

Lie With Me [Arrête avec tes mensonges] *** (2022, Guillaume De Tonquédec, Victor Belmondo, Jérémy Gillet, Julien De Saint Jean) – Classic Movie Review 12,513

Olivier Peyon’s moving, powerfully emotional 2022 French drama film Lie With Me [Arrête avec tes mensonges] stars Guillaume De Tonquédec as a gay novelist who returns to his home town after many years and meets […]

May, 25

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