Derek Winnert

Week-End in Havana ***½ (1941, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 9,933

20th Century Fox’s 1941 film Week-End in Havana is a highly engaging Forties wartime musical, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda on top singing form. It is 81 minutes of Technicolor escapist bliss. Director Walter […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

Wells Fargo *** (1937, Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Henry O’Neill, Ralph Morgan, Johnny Mack Brown, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 9932

Director Frank Lloyd’s 1937 Paramount Pictures historical Western film Wells Fargo stars Joel McCrea, who scores in his first Western in an era that suffered with a dearth of big-budget Westerns. He plays Ramsay MacKay, […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

We’ll Meet Again ** (1943, Vera Lynn, Geraldo, Patricia Roc) – Classic Movie Review 9931

Director Philip Brandon’s 1943 morale-boosting musical We’ll Meet Again provides a rare film role for British wartime singing sensation Vera Lynn, using the title of her most famous song. It is her film debut in […]

Jun, 19

Betrayal **** (1983, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge) – Classic Movie Review 9930

Director David Hugh Jones’s 1983 drama Betrayal is incisively acted by a team who just couldn’t be better – Jeremy Irons as the romancing literary agent Jerry, Ben Kingsley as the cuckolded husband Robert and […]

Jun, 18

Juggernaut **** (1974, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Clifton James) – Classic Movie Review 9929

Director Richard Lester’s ultra-tense, impressively efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable 1974 Seventies action adventure Juggernaut stars Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, and Clifton James. Sharif […]

Jun, 18

A Place to Go *** (1963, Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Bernard Lee, Doris Hare, John Slater) – Classic Movie Review 9928

Director Basil Dearden’s 1963 crime drama A Place to Go is a good and gritty account of the seamy side of East London’s petty-crime underworld, with Sixties pop star Mike Sarne (‘Come Outside’) as the […]

Jun, 18

Lady by Choice *** (1934, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 9927

Incomparable 1930s players Carole Lombard and May Robson delight in director David Burton’s bubbly 1934 vintage comedy Lady by Choice about a fame-hungry fan-dancer, Alabam Lee (Lombard), who takes in a mean, drunken, down-at-heel old […]

Jun, 18

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