Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Reviews

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

Enchanted Island * (1958, Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Don Dubbins) – Classic Movie Review 8881

‘He dared to love a cannibal princess!’ Director Allan Dwan’s colourful 1958 action adventure drama Enchanted Island is a cheap and none too cheerful version of Herman Melville’s less famous novel Typee, though it is […]

Sep, 07

Most Dangerous Man Alive ** (1961, Debra Paget, Elaine Stewart, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 8880

Ron Randell stars as escaped mobster Eddie Candell, who starts mutating after straying into a desert nuclear atomic testing zone, in director Allan Dwan’s low-budget 1961 black and white sci-fi psychotronic film Most Dangerous Man […]

Sep, 07

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