Derek Winnert

Easy to Love *** (1953, Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin) – Classic Movie Review 9,896

MGM’s spectacular 1953 Technicolor musical film Easy to Love stars Esther Williams, who bathes balletically in Florida’s Cypress Gardens amidst choreographer Busby Berkeley’s finest swimmers and water-skiers. ‘MGM’s spectacular Technicolor musical excitingly filmed in Florida’s […]

Jun, 12 · in Reviews

The Spanish Cape Mystery *** (1935, Donald Cook, Helen Twelvetrees, Berton Churchill) – Classic Movie Review 9895

Director Lewis D Collins’s 1935 thriller The Spanish Cape Mystery is the first in the series of Ellery Queen films, in which the holidaying debonair New York supersleuth Ellery Queen (Donald Cook) foolishly falls for the […]

Jun, 11 · in Reviews

Panama Lady *** (1939, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna, Donald Briggs) – Classic Movie Review 9894

Director Jack Hively’s lively 1939 RKO Pictures romance drama Panama Lady is a cleaned-up remake of the 1932 pre-Code film Panama Flo. Lucille Ball takes on Helen Twelvetrees’s former role of Flo as Lucy, a […]

Jun, 11

Easy to Wed *** (1946, Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 9893

You must remember this? Socialite brings libel case against a newspaper editor who can’t marry until he gets a reporter buddy to compromise her. Director Edward Buzzell’s 1946 Easy to Wed is MGM’s glossy, popular Technicolor […]

Jun, 11

Du Barry Was a Lady *** (1943, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O’Brien, Zero Mostel, Tommy Dorsey) – Classic Movie Review 9892

Cole Porter’s 1939 hit stage show with Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr is less satisfactorily cast with non-singing comedians Lucille Ball and Red Skelton for director Roy Del Ruth’s vigorous and amusing 1943 MGM film […]

Jun, 11

Arizona *** (1940, Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 9891

Adventurer Peter Muncie (William Holden) collides with tough Tucson tomboy pioneer woman Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur) and the sparks fly in director Wesley Ruggles’s entertaining 1940 vintage action Western film Arizona. It is long (as […]

Jun, 11

Buckskin ** (1968, Barry Sullivan, Joan Caulfield, Wendell Corey, Lon Chaney Jr, John Russell, Richard Arlen, Barbara Hale, Barton MacLane, Bill Williams, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 9890

It’s heroic new marshal Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) versus cattle baron Rep Marlowe (Wendell Corey) in director Michael D Moore’s 1968 typical A C Lyles Western film Buckskin. It stars Barry Sullivan, Joan Caulfield, Wendell Corey, […]

Jun, 10

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