Derek Winnert

The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] **** (1939, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee, Alan Napier, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 9532

Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

Just Cause *** (1995, Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw) – Classic Movie Review 9531

Director Arne Glimcher’s 1995 legal thriller Just Cause stars Sean Connery as anti-death penalty campaigning Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong who looks into all the evidence when he is told that a Death Row killer […]

Mar, 20 · in Reviews

The Mambo Kings ***** (1992, Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Pablo Calogero, Desi Arnaz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9530

Producer-director Arne Glimcher’s brilliant, beguling 1992 musical drama The Mambo Kings is the musical film as a style object. Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas star in a soulful love story with music about two brothers […]

Mar, 20

Too Many Girls *** (1940, Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Desi Arnaz, Eddie Bracken, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 9529

George Abbott’s 1940 RKO musical comedy Too Many Girls is the movie where Lucille Ball first met Desi Arnaz on the set  – and he said ‘I love Lucy’. Gorgeous gals and gaiety are promised. […]

Mar, 19

Too Many Husbands **** (1940, Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 9528

Director Wesley Ruggles’s attractive 1940 black and white screwball romantic comedy Too Many Husbands [My Two Husbands] stars Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas and Fred MacMurray. Columbia Pictures assembles a special cast to raise lots of […]

Mar, 19

La Jetée ***** (1962, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, voice of Jean Négroni) – Classic Movie Review 9527

Writer-director Chris Marker’s brilliantly teasing and challenging 1962 28-minute French black and white science fiction featurette La Jetée (The Jetty) is constructed almost entirely from still photographs and tells the story of a man and […]

Mar, 19

Raffles **** (1930, Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Bramwell Fletcher, Alison Skipworth) – Classic Movie Review 9,526

Ronald Colman’s suave charisma is perfect for E W Hornung’s cricketer and amateur cracksman A J Raffles in the crisp, fast moving and very entertaining 1930 first talkie version of the perennially popular crime mystery […]

Mar, 18

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