Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Belle of the Nineties **** (1934, Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan) – Classic Movie Review 7491

Director Leo McCarey’s irresistible 1934 musical comedy drama Belle of the Nineties is a highspot for the 41-year-old Mae West in her fourth film, following She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel, both co-starring Cary […]

Aug, 24 · in Reviews

Tenebre [Tenebrae] **** (1982, Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Giuliano Gemma) – Classic Movie Review 7,490

Ah, yes, ‘Terror Beyond Belief’. Dario Argento’s 1982 horror mystery thriller movie (giallo) Tenebre [Tenebrae] delivers the goods in spadefuls in this marvellously scary triumph of style over nasty and often silly content. Ah, yes, […]

Aug, 24 · in Reviews

Ten Seconds to Hell ** (1959, Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol) – Classic Movie Review 7489

Director Robert Aldrich keeps the tension reasonably high in his 1959 thriller Ten Seconds to Hell, despite a contrived, none too credible plot device, the unattractive characters, poor German accents and the insipid romantic interludes. […]

Aug, 24

The Scarlet Hour ** (1956, Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance) – Classic Movie Review 7488

Director Michael Curtiz assembles a fine cast for his minor 1955 film noir The Scarlet Hour, but the cast is largely wasted on the fairly turgid story of an adulterous wife (Carol Ohmart) and her […]

Aug, 23

Ten Tall Men *** (1951, Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 7487

Director Willis Goldbeck’s 1951 Technicolor adventure Ten Tall Men is an engaging, light-hearted send-up of French Foreign Legion movies like Beau Geste. It finds Burt Lancaster evidently enjoying himself as the US sergeant, Mike Kincaid, […]

Aug, 23

The Tenant [Le Locataire] **** (1976, Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Jo Van Fleet, Lila Kedrova) – Classic Movie Review 7486

After the Hollywood sheen of his masterworks Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown, director Roman Polanski returns to a far smaller canvas in the compelling 1976 paranoia psychological suspense thriller The Tenant, about Trelkovsky (played by the […]

Aug, 23

Ten Wanted Men *** (1955, Randolph Scott, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Boone) – Classic Movie Review 7485

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s run-of-the-mill 1955 Technicolor Western Ten Wanted Men stars Randolph Scott, who is his usual stalwart self as John Stewart, an Arizona cattleman fighting tricky rancher Wick Campbell (Richard Boone) after his […]

Aug, 23

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