Derek Winnert

Seven Days Leave ** (1930, Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore) – Classic Movie Review 10,176

The young Gary Cooper’s career was boosted when he starred in producer and director Richard Wallace’s 1930 all-talking drama film Seven Days Leave, the early-sound version of J M Barrie’s 1917 play The Old Lady […]

Aug, 13 · in Reviews

Seven Days’ Leave *** (1942, Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Harold Peary, Mapy Cortes) – Classic Movie Review 10,175

Director Tim Whelan’s 1942 RKO Radio Pictures black and white romantic musical comedy Seven Days’ Leave stars the irresistible combination of Lucille Ball and Victor Mature (borrowed from 20th Century-Fox). Wartime GI soldier Johnny Grey […]

Aug, 13 · in Reviews

Carbine Williams *** (1952, James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 10,174

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 black and white biographical crime drama Carbine Williams stars James Stewart, who is effectively cast as David ‘Marsh’ Marshall Williams, an embittered jailed bootlegger, who, in the jail tool-shop, invents a new gun […]

Aug, 13

Caravan to Vaccares ** (1974, David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozuffi, Michael Bryant) – Classic Movie Review 10,173

David Birney stars with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lonsdale in the 1974 British-French action film Caravan to Vaccarès, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean.  ‘The Guns of Navarone – Where Eagles Dare – When […]

Aug, 13

Caravans ** (1978, Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee, Jennifer O’Neill, Joseph Cotten, Barry Sullivan, Jeremy Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 10,172

Director James Fargo’s 1978 Iran/ US co-production action adventure movie Caravans is set in 1948 in a fictional country called Zakharstan and stars Michael Sarrazin as a young American Embassy employee Mark Miller (Michael Sarazyn) tasked […]

Aug, 13

Carbon Copy *** (1981, George Segal, Denzel Washington, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 10,171

‘I lost my job, my house, my Rolls Royce, my family left me… what else can possibly go wrong?’ ‘Hi, Dad!’ Director Michael Schultz’s 1981 comedy drama Carbon Copy stars George Segal as straight-laced, rich, […]

Aug, 13

Blackbeard’s Ghost ** (1968, Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette) – Classic Movie Review 10,170

Peter Ustinov’s engagingly vigorous portrayal as Captain Blackbeard is the main attraction of Walt Disney’s otherwise uninspired comedy fantasy, director Robert Stevenson’s 1968 Blackbeard’s Ghost. Ben Stahl’s story about the bumbling ghost of Blackbeard the […]

Aug, 12

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