Derek Winnert

Sin City ***** (2005, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Rutger Hauer) – Classic Movie Review 8888

Directors Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s neo noir crime thriller Sin City (2005) is eye-poppingly imaginative and just plain brilliant. A graphic novel sprung to vivid life on the screen, it needs careful […]

Sep, 08 · in Reviews

Splendor *** (1935, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Helen Westley, Katharine Alexander, David Niven, Paul Cavanagh, Billie Burke, Ruth Weston) – Classic Movie Review 8887

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 black and white romantic comedy drama Splendor is a forgotten but not negligible yarn from the Samuel Goldwyn Company studios about Brighton Lorrimore (Joel McCrea) upsetting his fraught, cash-strapped family, especially […]

Sep, 08 · in Reviews

The Purple Heart *** (1944, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8886

That noble director of war movies Lewis Milestone gave us All Quiet On The Western Front, A Walk In The Sun, Halls of Montezuma and also this World War Two look at the plight of […]

Sep, 08

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry *** (1945, George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Moyna MacGill, Sara Allgood) – Classic Movie Review 8,885

The 1945 black and white film noir thriller The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry is strangely relocated to contemporary New Hampshire, and features George Sanders as amiable middle-aged bachelor Harry Quincey. Thomas Job’s 1942 Broadway […]

Sep, 08

Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] *** (1981, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 8884

Michel Piccoli won the Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Actor in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s nimbly acted, craftily written 1981 French social satire drama Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] in 1982 and Natalie Baye […]

Sep, 08

The North Star ** (1943, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Farley Granger, Jane Withers, Erich von Stroheim, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 8883

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1943 romantic wartime drama The North Star is an embarrassing, unreal pro-Soviet propaganda piece on behalf of the post-German invasion American-Russian alliance, about Nazis invading a Russian farming community in the Ukraine […]

Sep, 08

Enchantment *** (1948, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8882

‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]

Sep, 07

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