Derek Winnert

The Golden Arrow ** (1936, Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry O’Neill, Ivan Lebedeff) – Classic Movie Review 10,095

Director Alfred E Green’s 1936 The Golden Arrow finds Bette Davis cast once again opposite George Brent, this time in a would-be frothy screwball comedy as a restaurant cafeteria cashier hired by a cosmetics firm’s […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Gold Is Where You Find It **½ (1938, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 10,094

Director Michael Curtiz’s ambitious 1938 Technicolor historical romantic drama Gold Is Where You Find It stars George Brent, Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains in a story about a late 19th-century conflict in the Sacramento […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Call It a Day ** (1937, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, Frieda Inescort, Bonita Granville) – Classic Movie Review 10,093

Olivia de Havilland (21) has her first top billing in a movie in the frivolous 1937 comedy Call It a Day about a middle-class English family struggling with the romantic effects of spring fever during […]

Jul, 27

The Irish in Us *** (1935, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Olivia de Havilland) – Classic Movie Review 10,092

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1935 comedy drama The Irish in Us is based on a story by Frank Orsatti about an Irish family, and stars James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Mary Gordon, Frank McHugh […]

Jul, 27

Alibi Ike *** (1935, Joe E Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 10,091

Director Ray Enright’s daffy 1935 comedy Alibi Ike is a good dizzy showcase for the wacky talents of very likeable comic Joe E Brown as Frank X Farrell, an offbeat rookie baseball pitcher who is […]

Jul, 27

The Moon Is Blue ** (1953, William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara) – Classic Movie Review 10,090

Director Otto Preminger’s then frank-speaking 1953 age gap romantic comedy The Moon Is Blue turned the air blue and ruffled the feathers of the censors of the day with words like sex, virgins, mistress and […]

Jul, 26

This Happy Feeling ** (1958, Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor, Troy Donahue,) – Classic Movie Review 10,089

John Saxon won the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – Male as Bill Tremaine in writer-director Blake Edwards’s age gap comedy This Happy Feeling (1958), which is based on the play For Love or […]

Jul, 26

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