Derek Winnert

Two Gentlemen Sharing ** (1969, Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Hal Frederick, Ester Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 10,334

‘One was Black… One was White… but they had one thing in common!’ Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing must have been brave, pioneering and honourably well meaning in its day, but it is […]

Sep, 22 · in Reviews

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

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

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