Derek Winnert

The Unholy Wife ** (1957, Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi, Marie Windsor, Arthur Franz) – Classic Movie Review 8484

‘HALF-ANGEL……HALF-DEVIL, she made him HALF-A-MAN! ‘ After I Married a Woman, in August 1956 Diana Dors signed a contract with RKO Pictures to make three more movies, the first of which was the 1957 Technicolor film noir crime […]

May, 19 · in Reviews

I Married a Woman ** (1958, George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou) Classic Movie Review 8483

‘What happens to the MOUSE when the CHEESECAKE bites back?’ British sex symbol Diana Dors’s performance in Yield to the Night (1956) attracted interest in Hollywood and in May 1956 she signed a contract with […]

May, 19 · in Reviews

The Shop at Sly Corner *** (1947, Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8482

Oskar Homolka has a field day playing Desius Heiss, an antique dealer with a secret criminal past, who is ready to kill to save his beautiful violin-playing daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), in director George King’s […]

May, 18

The Rage of Paris *** (1938, Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer, Helen Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8481

The snappy acting by Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer and Helen Broderick is a treat and director Henry Koster makes the time whiz by (and it is only 78 minutes) in […]

May, 18

The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] ***** (1965, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková) – Classic Movie Review 8480

Writer-directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1966 for this 1965 heart-rending saga The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] about a wood-worker Tono (Jozef Kroner) who tries […]

May, 18

The Bridges at Toko-Ri *** (1954, William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 8479

James A Michener’s bestselling novel about the friendship of two Korean War jet pilots is strongly cast in director Mark Robson’s high-flying 1954 Paramount Pictures production The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The stars (especially William Holden […]

May, 18

Mayerling **** (1936, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier) – Classic Movie Review 8478

Director Anatole Litvak’s original 1936 black and white movie Mayerling is the memorable French hit film based on Claude Anet’s novel of the fateful love of the 19th-century married Hapsburg heir, Archduke Rudolf, for the […]

May, 17

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