Derek Winnert

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo *** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Don DeFore, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 10,333

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1944 black-and-white war drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a careful version of the events surrounding the US bombing of Tokyo in 1942 in The Doolittle Raid, a secret bombing mission to […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

Wetherby *** (1985, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 10,332

The 1985 British drama Wetherby is a typical piece from writer David Hare – dour, intelligent and enigmatic – with Vanessa Redgrave starring as Jean Travers, a spinster teacher interested in a weird chap (Tim […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

Woman They Almost Lynched ** (1953, Joan Leslie, John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter) – Classic Movie Review 10,331

Cult director Allan Dwan’s 1952 black and white Western film Woman They Almost Lynched stars Joan Leslie as Sally Maris, a posh East Coast socialite who learns to shoot and becomes the target for scared […]

Sep, 20

The Woman on Pier 13 ** (1949, Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,330

Film noir meets red scare… Director Robert Stevenson’s 1949 The Woman on Pier 13, a film noir crime drama that is otherwise known as I Married a Communist, is a forced, jingoistically patriotic propaganda piece about […]

Sep, 20

The Woman of the Town *** (1943, Albert Dekker, Claire Trevor, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,329

Esteemed character actor Albert Dekker lands a rare star role as Bat Masterson…  Director George Archainbaud’s 1943 The Woman of the Town stars Albert Dekker as the famous Western hero, gunslinger Bat Masterson, who has […]

Sep, 20

The Woman on the Beach *** (1947, Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 10,328

The 1947 film The Woman on the Beach is a hothouse film noir romantic drama from Jean Renoir with a strange trio of characters embroiled in a love triangle – older blind artist Tod (Charles […]

Sep, 19

A Woman Under the Influence ***** (1974, Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper) – Classic Movie Review 10,327

John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of the American family, the brilliant 1974 drama film A Woman Under the Influence, stars his wife Gena Rowlands as a disintegrating housewife and mother. Writer-director John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of […]

Sep, 19

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