Derek Winnert

Captain Pirate *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9377

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1952 swashbuckling action adventure Captain Pirate [Captain Blood Fugitive] is the improved Technicolor sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and is based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel Captain Blood Returns. It again […]

Feb, 13 · in Reviews

Fortunes of Captain Blood ** (1950, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 9376

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 swashbuckling adventure film Fortunes of Captain Blood is an acceptably humble adventure, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, though the routine script and direction, and the cheap-looking Columbia Pictures production […]

Feb, 13 · in Reviews

40 Carats *** (1973, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9375

Director Milton Katselas’s 1973 romantic comedy drama 40 Carats [Forty Carats] stars Liv Ullmann as a glamorous 40-year-old divorced wife, Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley, who has a fling with an American boy (Edward Albert) half […]

Feb, 13

Butterflies Are Free *** (1972, Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 9374

The 1972 romantic comedy drama film Butterflies Are Free is a stage bound but enjoyable four-hankie tearjerker about a young actress (Goldie Hawn) falling for an unsighted San Francisco lad (Edward Albert). Director Milton Katselas’s […]

Feb, 12

Million Dollar Mermaid ** (1952, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9373

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]

Feb, 12

The Million Pound Note [Man with a Million] *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joan Grenfell, Ernest Thesiger, A E Matthews, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 9372

Gregory Peck came to Britain in the 1950s to film two movies for the Rank Organisation and sadly neither did very well (the other is The Purple Plain). In Ronald Neame’s 1954 The Million Pound […]

Feb, 12

Mirage **** (1965, Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 9,371

The 1965 neo noir chase-mystery film Mirage is a deliciously tasty, satisfyingly convoluted Hitchcockian paranoia/ amnesia/ conspiracy thriller starring a memorable line-up of Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy and Jack Weston. Director […]

Feb, 11

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