Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

On Moonlight Bay *** (1951, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Jack Smith, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 7680

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1951 On Moonlight Bay pairs cute, clean-cut couple Doris Day and Gordon MacRae to rousing, tuneful effect. Day stars as toothsome tomboy Marjorie Winfield and MacRae plays her handsome neighbour William […]

Oct, 20 · in Reviews

Starlift ** (1951, Peter Marshall, Tommy Noonan, Janice Rule, Dick Wesson, Ron Hagerthy, Richard Webb, Howard St John, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo) – Classic Movie Review 7,679

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1951 musical film Starlift, based on the real-life sending of a bunch of jolly stars to San Francisco’s Travis Air Base to entertain injured veterans and worried troops bound for Korea, […]

Oct, 20 · in Reviews

Blowing Wild ** (1953, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 7678

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 action adventure Blowing Wild stars Barbara Stanwyck as wicked wildcat Marina Conway, who lusts again after her reluctant former lover Jeff Dawson (Gary Cooper) while her oil boss husband Paco (Anthony […]

Oct, 19

Blown Away *** (1994, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 7677

Director Stephen Hopkins’s 1994 action crime thriller Blown Away is an involving, suspenseful and intelligent thriller but at the same time it is uncomfortable and exploitative feeling. Jeff Bridges stars as Boston bomb squad man […]

Oct, 19

License to Drive [Licence to Drive] * (1988, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham) – Classic Movie Review 7676

The title of director Greg Beeman’s 1988 film License to Drive [Licence to Drive] focuses audience attention on exactly what bad boy Les Anderson (Corey Haim) hasn’t got. He failed his driving test, but that doesn’t […]

Oct, 19

Benjamin *** (2018, Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard, Anna Chancellor, Joel Fry, Jack Rowan) – Movie Review

Colin Morgan stars as the dazed and confused gay film-maker Benjamin in writer-director Simon Amstell’s amusing and appealing, bittersweet romantic comedy called Benjamin oddly enough. Colin Morgan, last seen in Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince (2018) as […]

Oct, 19

Red Ball Express *** (1952, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Sidney Poitier, Charles Drake, Judith Braun, Hugh O’Brian, Jacqueline Duval, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7675

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1952 World War Two-set wartime adventure Red Ball Express follows the route of the truck division of the title in their desperate journey through enemy-occupied French territory delivering supplies to General Patton’s […]

Oct, 19

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