Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Requiem for a Gunfighter ** (1965, Rod Cameron, Stephen McNally, Mike Mazurki, Dick Jones, Tim McCoy, Olive Sturgess) – Classic Movie Review 7697

Prolific director Spencer Gordon Bennet’s last film is the 1965 Technicolor Western Requiem for a Gunfighter, produced by Alex Gordon, and starring Rod Cameron, Stephen McNally, Mike Mazurki, Dick Jones, Tim McCoy and Olive Sturgess. Requiem for a Gunfighter employs several older Western actors, including Tim McCoy […]

Oct, 23 · in Reviews

Twenty Million Sweethearts *** (1934, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 7696

Director Ray Enright’s 1934 Warner Bros movie Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Pat O’Brien. O’Brien plays unscrupulous agent Russell ‘Russ’ Blake, who discovers singing waiter Buddy Clayton (Powell) and puts him […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Unconquered *** (1947, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 7695

Producer-director-showman Cecil B DeMille’s 1947 pioneer picture Unconquered, in which American colonists battle the Indians, is engagingly overblown and amusingly daft. It is shot in glorious Technicolor. Paulette Goddard plays Abby Hale, a cockney convict transported […]

Oct, 22

Garden of Evil *** (1954, Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 7694

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1954 American CinemaScope Western film Garden of Evil stars Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell as American Western adventurers in rural Mexico, who are recruited to help beautiful Leah Fuller (Susan Hayward) to rescue […]

Oct, 22

Casanova Brown ** (1944, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise) – Classic Movie Review 7693

Director Sam Wood’s 1944 Casanova Brown boasts good stars in Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and Frank Morgan, but this is no more than pleasant comedy, which is especially disappointing as there is an intriguing premise […]

Oct, 22

Stan & Ollie **** (2018, Steve Coogan, John C Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Rufus Jones) – Movie Review

Stan & Ollie (2018) is a labour of love, a loving tribute to Laurel and Hardy, with brilliant impersonations of the duo by Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, and clever re-creations of their routines, songs […]

Oct, 21

It Happened to Jane ** (1959, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs) – Classic Movie Review 7692

Doris Day plays Jane Osgood, the lobster lady from Maine who gets her lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to fight mean railway boss Harry Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who will not deliver her lobsters to her business […]

Oct, 21

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