Derek Winnert

The Sun Shines Bright **** (1953, Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell) – Classic Movie Review 10,127

John Ford’s reworking of his own 1934 film Judge Priest features a superb performance from chubby, lovable old Charles Winninger (replacing the original’s Will Rogers) as the small town magistrate Judge William Priest, who has […]

Aug, 03 · in Reviews

Judge Priest **** (1934, Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B Walthall, David Landau) – Classic Movie Review 10,126

John Ford’s warm and engaging comedy drama 1934 film Judge Priest stars Will Rogers as 1890s widowed small-town Kentucky Judge Priest. Director John Ford’s 1934 film Judge Priest stars Will Rogers as 1890s widowed small-town […]

Aug, 03 · in Reviews

Judex **** (1963, Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Théo Sarapo, Sylva Koscina, Michel Vitold) – Classic Movie Review 10,125

Favraux: ‘Judex.’ Judex: ‘It’s a Latin word meaning judge or avenger.’ Channing Pollock stars as avenging caped crusader Judex, who fights evil banker Favraux (Michel Vitold), in the 1963 French crime thriller film Judex, director […]

Aug, 03

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

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

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

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