Derek Winnert

Oldboy [Oldeuboi] ***** (2003, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang) – Classic Movie Review 8694

Director Chan-wook Park’s horrific 2003 South Korean mystery action thriller Oldboy is still crazy and wildly imaginative after all these years. Dark as pitch, it is an incredible scare and thrill ride. It keeps its […]

Jul, 11 · in Uncategorized

Charlie Chan in Paris *** (1935, Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes, John Miljan, Keye Luke) Classic Movie Review 8693

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1935 thriller Charlie Chan in Paris is the seventh film produced by the Fox Film Corporation with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. ‘Hasty conclusion like gunpowder,’ says Chan, ‘tendency to explode.’ Charlie goes to Paris […]

Jul, 11 · in Uncategorized

Charlie Chan in Shanghai *** (1935, Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke, Halliwell Hobbes, Jon Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8692

Director James Tinling’s 1935 Charlie Chan in Shanghai is the ninth Charlie Chan film produced by 20th Century Fox with the title character played by Warner Oland. Charlie Chan heads for Shanghai on the request of the US […]

Jul, 11

Cross Creek **** (1983, Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 8691

Director Martin Ritt’s 1983 Cross Creek tells the story of a real-life writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, who in 1926 left her husband and home in the big city to start a […]

Jul, 10

Shanghai * (1935, Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland) – Classic Movie Review 8690

‘Love Hurls a Challenge… At a Law As Old as Civilization Itself!’ Director James Flood’s turgid 1935 romantic melodrama Shanghai stars Loretta Young as an American woman called Barbara Howard, who stands by a Shanghai financier […]

Jul, 09

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo ** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 8689

Alas, director Eugene Forde’s 1938 thriller Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is Warner Oland’s last Chan adventure, and it is hard to get excited about its plot concerning missing metallurgic bonds while Chan is on […]

Jul, 09

Charlie Chan at the Race Track *** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8688

‘Oh gee, Pop, when are we going to arrest somebody?’ asks Charlie Chan (Warner Oland)’s jumping-jack Number One Son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke). Has a prize horse kicked to death its rich owner just before […]

Jul, 09

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