Derek Winnert

The Girl in the Kremlin (1957, Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 10,124

Director Russell Birdwell’s 1957 Cold War film noir The Girl in the Kremlin tells a memorably outlandish stinker of a mystery tale about private detective and former OSS agent Steve Anderson (Lex Barker) finding that […]

Aug, 03 · in Reviews

The Iron Mistress ** (1952, Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 10,123

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]

Aug, 02 · in Uncategorized

The Big Noise *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Jack Norton, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 10,122

Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1944 comedy The Big Noise is a still smile-worthy if relatively feeble, padded-out late-period movie from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in which the Boys are detective agency janitors who pretend […]

Aug, 02

The Big Operator *** (1959, Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Danton) – Classic Movie Review 10,121

Director Charles F Haas’s 1959 crime thriller The Big Operator [Anatomy of a Syndicate] stars Mickey Rooney as a union racketeer called Little Joe Braun, who sets off on the rampage when the US Senate […]

Aug, 02

Norwood ** (1970, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath, Carol Lynley, Pat Hingle, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 10,120

Director Jack Haley Jr’s 1970 comedy drama Norwood is an inoffensive but uninspired vehicle for amiable singer Glen Campbell (reteamed with Kim Darby as their reward for appearing in producer Hal B Wallis’s 1969 True […]

Aug, 02

Conrack *** (1974, Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair) – Classic Movie Review 10,119

Martin Ritt’s 1974 drama film Conrack stars Jon Voight as real-life Pat Conroy, an idealistic young white English teacher at a rural South Carolina all-black elementary school. Director Martin Ritt’s 1974 drama Conrack stars Jon […]

Aug, 01

Conspiracy of Hearts *** (1960, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,118

‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]

Aug, 01

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