Derek Winnert

Best of the Badmen *** (1951, Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 9920

Director William D Russell’s bracing 1951 RKO Technicolor Western film Best of the Badmen stars Robert Ryan as Union officer Major Jeff Clanton, who clashes with unscrupulous detective Matthew Fowler (Robert Preston), head of a corrupt […]

Jun, 16 · in Reviews

The Best of Everything *** (1959, Joan Crawford, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker, Brian Aherne, Robert Evans) – Classic Movie Review 9919

Director Jean Negulesco’s 1959 romantic drama The Best of Everything is based on Rona Jaffe’s novel and stars Joan Crawford, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker, Brian Aherne and […]

Jun, 16 · in Reviews

Temptation *** (1946, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas) Classic Movie Review 9918

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 black and white film noir thriller Temptation stars Merle Oberon as bored housewife Ruby, an 1890s London shady lady who moves to Egypt and swaps her dull archaeologist husband Nigel Armine […]

Jun, 16

The Betsy * (1978, Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones) – Classic Movie Review 9917

Heavens to betsy, it’s esteemed septuagenarian peer Lord Olivier starring in director Daniel Petrie’s 1977 farrago film The Betsy, a tacky movie adaptation of Harold Robbins’s best-selling 1971 novel, as Loren Hardeman Snr, aka Number […]

Jun, 16

Betsy’s Wedding **** (1990, Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 9916

The sweet 1990 comedy Betsy’s Wedding is a tour-de-force for Alan Alda. Alda writes, directs and stars in this warm and funny comedy about a man who will do anything to give his kooky daughter […]

Jun, 15

Le Million ***** (1931, Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert) – Classic Movie Review 9915

René Lefèvre stars as Michel, an impoverished Parisian artist who turns Paris upside-down in a desperate search for his winning million florins Dutch lottery ticket, left in the pocket of his old jacket, given away […]

Jun, 15

Meet Danny Wilson *** (1952, Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 9914

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1952 film Meet Danny Wilson stars Frank Sinatra as Danny Wilson, a singer (what else!) who rises to the top of his profession, but gets mixed with racketeering hoods and is threatened […]

Jun, 15

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