Derek Winnert

The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] *** (1954, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 9193

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]

Dec, 27 · in Uncategorized

Cromwell *** (1970, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 9192

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1970 British historical drama Cromwell is an interesting version of how the 17th-century Puritan squire Oliver Cromwell became a member of the English Parliament, and then seized power as a dictator. The […]

Dec, 26 · in Reviews

Critic’s Choice *** (1963, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor, John Dehner) – Classic Movie Review 9,191

The 1963 American comedy film Critic’s Choice is based on the 1960 Broadway play by Ira Levin, and teams Bob Hope and Lucille Ball for the fourth and last time. Director Don Weis’s 1963 American comedy film Critic’s […]

Dec, 26

Crocodile Dundee II ** (1988, Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 9190

Director John Cornell’s 1988 action adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee II again stars Paul Hogan as laidback man from the Aussie Outback Michael ‘Mick’ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, who returns with more of the same amiable, easy-going comedy, […]

Dec, 26

Shining Through (1992, Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 9189

Melanie Griffith stars in writer-director David Seltzer’s hypnotically awful 1992 World War Two-set romantic thriller drama Shining Through as Linda Voss,  gets a job at a New York law firm and later becomes a spy […]

Dec, 24

The Shining Hour *** (1938, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Fay Bainter) – Classic Movie Review 9188

Director Frank Borzage’s polished 1938 The Shining Hour is a shining hour or so (76 minutes, actually) of well-acted melodrama as a rich, upper-class farmer Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas) takes his new nightclub dancing hoofer […]

Dec, 24

Trader Horn *** (1931, Harry Carey Sr, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo) – Classic Movie Review 9187

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1931 adventure movie Trader Horn stars Harry Carey Sr as explorer Aloysius ‘Trader’ Horn, who meets danger and understandably hostile locals in the jungle of darkest Africa of the […]

Dec, 24

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