Derek Winnert

Outrageous! **** (1977, Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley) – Classic Movie Review 10,270

Toronto-born drag queen/ female impersonator Craig Russell is hilarious and touching as a female impersonator gay hairdresser who keeps house with a pregnant schizophrenic (Hollis McLaren), in director Richard Benner’s warm, funny and revealing 1977 […]

Sep, 06 · in Reviews

Escape from Fort Bravo *** (1953, William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe) – Classic Movie Review 10,269

Director John Sturges never lets the tension sag in the 1953 film Escape from Fort Bravo, a complex, superior MGM Western that is too little known. There are some familiar situations in the screenplay by […]

Sep, 06 · in Reviews

Big Business Girl ** (1931, Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 10,268

Producer-director William A Seiter’s 1931 black and white romantic comedy Big Business Girl stars Loretta Young as Claire ‘Mac’ McIntyre, who succeeds in business while helping the swing band singing career of her boyfriend Johnny […]

Sep, 06

Texas *** (1941, William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 10,267

Director George Marshall’s 1941 Western film Texas stars William Holden, Glenn Ford and Claire Trevor, its action intercut with a love triangle romance. The almost unrecognisably young and handsome Holden and Ford make their mark […]

Sep, 05

The Texans *** (1938, Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 10,266

Director James Hogan’s 1938 film The Texans is a faded but impressively big-scale Western with vigorous handling and feisty turns from a reliable cast. As Texas sorts itself out after the US Civil War, what […]

Sep, 05

The Texan *** (1930, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James A Marcus) – Classic Movie Review 10,265

Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]

Sep, 05

Smiley Gets a Gun ** (1958, Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Keith Calvert) – Classic Movie Review 10,264

Porducer-director Anthony Kimmins’s 1958 Australian comedy drama Smiley Gets a Gun is the sequel to his Smiley (1956), in which Smiley Greevins, now played by Keith Calvert, must keep out of trouble at school, help […]

Sep, 04

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