Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Glory Brigade ** (1953, Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 9778

Director Robert D Webb’s 1953 black and white 20th Century Fox war movie The Glory Brigade stars Victor Mature as American lieutenant  Sam Pryor, who offers to help a regiment from his old country – […]

May, 16 · in Reviews

The Man from the Alamo *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Victor Jory, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9,777

Budd Boetticher’s taut, fine looking 1953 Technicolor Western film The Man from the Alamo stars Glenn Ford as Battle of the Alamo sole survivor John Stroud, who sets out for revenge.  Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 […]

May, 16 · in Reviews

Slave Girl ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 9776

Director Charles Lamont’s 1947 Technicolor trifle Slave Girl tells an entertainingly silly action adventure tale (with weedy added humour when the Universal studio saw what a risible movie the original Victorian-set historical adventure story had […]

May, 16

So Big ** (1953, Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Richard Beymer, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 9775

Director Robert Wise’s 1953 romantic drama So Big, the desultory remake of the 1932 semi-classic So Big, based on the Pulitizer Prize novel by Edna Ferber, is thin, soapy and over-extended. The cast is good […]

May, 16

So This Is Paris *** (1954, Tony Curtis, Gloria DeHaven, Gene Nelson, Corinne Calvet, Mara Corday, Paul Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 9774

Director Richard Quine’s vibrant if messy and cheap-looking 1954 Technicolor musical So This Is Paris has a trio of Yankee sailors, Joe, Al and Davy (Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert), on furlough chasing […]

May, 16

Oliver’s Story ** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 9773

The 1978 Oliver’s Story is the follow-on to the 1970 smash hit Love Story, with Ryan O’Neal back as love-struck Oliver Barrett. Co-screenwriter/ director John Korty’s 1978 romantic drama sequel Oliver’s Story is the largely […]

May, 15

Olivier, Olivier **** (1992, Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet, Jean-François Stévenin, Grégoire Colin) – Classic Movie Review 9772

Writer-director Agnieszka Holland’s 1991 drama Olivier, Olivier is her underrated successor to her 1990 hit Europa Europa. It is an extremely affecting tale of a distraught French suburban family who eagerly embrace the broke rent-boy […]

May, 15

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