Derek Winnert

Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13 · in Reviews

This Land Is Mine *** (1943, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O’Connor, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8977

Director Jean Renoir’s 1943 black and white wartime drama This Land Is Mine is perfectly constructed and strongly cast but it lacks his usual panache, partly because of Dudley Nichols’s routine screenplay and situations. Charles […]

Oct, 12 · in Reviews

Swamp Water **** (1941, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8976

Master French film-maker Jean Renoir’s 1941 American début Swamp Water [The Man Who Came Back], made while he was in wartime exile from German-occupied France, is an unusual, dramatic thriller, set in Georgia swamps, where […]

Oct, 12

Fanny Lye Deliver’d **** (2019, Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds) – Movie Review

Writer-director Thomas Clay’s labour of love Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019) is a thinking person’s horror thriller set in Cromwell’s England on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. You don’t get many thinking person’s horror […]

Oct, 12

Problem Child (1990, John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 8975

Director Dennis Dugan’s 1990 family comedy Problem Child stars John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as Ben Healy Jr and Flo Healy, a loving husband and his wacky wife who adopt a devilish seven-year-old orphan boy […]

Oct, 11

The Prodigal * (1955, Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, James Mitchell, Joseph Wiseman, Cecil Kellaway, Walter Hampden) – Classic Movie Review 8974

Director Richard Thorpe’s hysterical, outrageous 1955 Eastmancolor and CinemaScope biblical epic The Prodigal makes only a passing nod at anything biblical and concentrates instead on exoticism, in this loose adaptation of Jesus Christ’s famous New Testament […]

Oct, 11

First Love [Hatsukoi] ** (2019, Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Becky) – Movie Review

Masataka Kubota stars in director Takashi Miike’s romantic crime drama First Love [Hatsukoi] (2019) as young boxer Leo, who is unexpectedly knocked him out in the ring, setting him off on a chain of events […]

Oct, 11

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