Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809

Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

City Streets **** (1931, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd, Wynne Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 7808

‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

Storm in a Teacup **** (1937, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7807

Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]

Nov, 19

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

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

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

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