Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Dark Journey **** (1937, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7806

Sparkling performances from the sleek and sexy team of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt light up producer-director Victor Saville’s 1937 thriller Dark Journey [The Anxious Years], an involvingly dark and complex British espionage movie set […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

Above Suspicion *** (1943, Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 7805

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1943 jauntily escapist MGM wartime spy thriller Above Suspicion is taken from a Helen MacInnes bestselling novel and stars Fred MacMurray and Joan Crawford as Oxford professor Richard Myles and his new […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

They All Kissed the Bride *** (1942, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Allen Jenkins, Andrew Tombes, Helen Parrish, Mary Treen) – Classic Movie Review 7804

Director Alexander Hall’s 1942 screwball comedy They All Kissed the Bride provides a typical powerful career woman role for Joan Crawford as Margaret Drew, who inherits her father’s trucking firm – and the only kind of […]

Nov, 18

Blood Alley *** (1955, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Mike Mazurki, Anita Ekberg, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 7803

Director William Wellman’s interesting but uncomfortable 1955 adventure movie Blood Alley stars John Wayne and Lauren Bacall as Merchant marine captain Tom Wider (Wayne) and doctor’s daughter Cathy Grainger (Bacall). They help a bunch of Chinese […]

Nov, 18

The Sea Chase *** (1955, John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness, Dick Davalos, John Qualen, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 7802

Director John Farrow’s 1955 wartime action adventure The Sea Chase has an extraordinary piece of casting in John Wayne playing Captain Karl Erlich, the anti-Nazi German captain of a freighter, anxious to set out from Sydney […]

Nov, 18

These Glamour Girls ** (1939, Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise) – Classic Movie Review 7801

Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1939 romantic comedy drama These Glamour Girls highlights class difference when a dance hall hostess girl (Lana Turner) from the wrong side of the tracks is casually invited by a drunken rich young […]

Nov, 18

These Old Broads *** (2001, Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman, Peter Graves, Gene Barry) – Classic Movie Review 7800

Director Matthew Diamond’s 2001 TV movie These Old Broads stars Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine and Joan Collins as drama queens Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne and Addie Holden, who vow never to work together again but get […]

Nov, 18

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