Derek Winnert

Down to the Sea in Ships *** (1949, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9877

The very spitting image of Captain Birdseye, Lionel Barrymore has a whale of a time with his role as sea Captain Bering Joy, a spectacularly grizzled ship’s captain, in this entertaining, old-fashioned sea saga about […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

Ladies’ Man ** (1931, William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard) – Classic Movie Review 9876

Director Lothar Mendes’s 1931 film Ladies’ Man is a well-crafted romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Rupert Hughes, with a screenplay by Herman J Mankiewicz. It stars William Powell as Jamie Darricott, a Machiavellian […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

The Seven Deadly Sins [Les Sept Péchés Capitaux] **** (1952, Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe, Jean Debucourt) – Classic Movie Review 9875

An extraordinary gathering of prestigious French film-makers and performers contributes to the 1952 French/ Italian co-production portmanteau movie The Seven Deadly Sins [Les Sept Péchés Capitaux], an elegant and entertaining collection of modern interpretations of […]

Jun, 07

The Seven Deadly Sins [Les Sept Péchés Capitaux] * (1961) – Classic Movie Review 9874

In this 1961 black and white French remake of a classic 1952 portmanteau movie The Seven Deadly Sins [Les Sept Péchés Capitaux], an extraordinary gathering of prestigious French film-makers come together to contribute to this […]

Jun, 07

Dr M * (1990, Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas) – Classic Movie Review 9873

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1990 German, Italian, French sci-fi policier/ futuristic thriller Dr M [Club Extinction], an homage to Fritz Lang’s Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922), goes awry, but it does maintain a slight level of interest […]

Jun, 07

Red Wedding [Les Noces rouges] ***½ (1973, Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu) – Classic Movie Review 9,872

Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian French crime thriller Red Wedding [Les Noces rouges], loosely based on real events. Those cool and distinguished players […]

Jun, 06

Quiet Please: Murder **** (1942, George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9871  

Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book…  Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]

Jun, 06

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