Derek Winnert

Road House **** (1948, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark) – Classic Movie Review 8891

Director Jean Negulesco’s dark and involving 1948 20th Century Fox film noir drama Road House stars Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm and Richard Widmark as crazed bar owner Jefferson T ‘Jefty’ Robbins, who comes […]

Sep, 09 · in Reviews

Road House *** (1989, Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara) – Classic Movie Review 8,890

The 1989 American action film Road House stars Patrick Swayze as the bouncer at a newly refurbished roadside bar, who protects a Missouri small town from a corrupt businessman (Ben Gazzara). Director Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 American action film Road House stars […]

Sep, 09 · in Reviews

Noises Off… ** (1992, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 8889

Writer Michael Frayn’s hilarious West End and Broadway stage farce about the disasters that befall an inept travelling repertory theatre company putting on an English sex farce show (Nothing On) becomes director Peter Bogdanovich’s stagey, […]

Sep, 09

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

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

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

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