Derek Winnert

Midshipman Easy *** (1935, Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate, Roger Livesey) – Classic Movie Review 8104

The Napoleonic Wars are the background for the story in director Carol Reed’s eighteenth-century naval adventure in the 1935 movie Midshipman Easy [Men of the Sea in the US]. Hughie Green stars as the cocky […]

Feb, 07 · in Uncategorized

The Midshipmaid [Midshipmaid Gob] ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, A W Baskcomb, Basil Sydney, Frederick Kerr, Nigel Bruce, Claud Allister, John Mills, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 8103

Jessie Matthews stars in her second major film role (following Out of the Blue in 1931), the first of two films she made directed by Albert de Courville, followed by There Goes the Bride (1932). Director Albert de Courville’s […]

Feb, 07 · in Reviews

Climbing High *** (1938, Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim, Margaret Vyner) – Classic Movie Review 8102

Carol Reed directs a Jessie Matthews musical comedy way back in 1938, and this surprising early experience must have been good training for his directing Oliver! thirty years later. Director Carol Reed’s 1938 movie Climbing […]

Feb, 07

Colors *** (1988, Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso) – Classic Movie Review 8101

Director Dennis Hopper’s 1988 movie Colors is a tough, in-your-face cop thriller distinguished by a grand turn by Robert Duvall as Bob Hodges, a grizzled cop teaching his impetuous young sidekick Danny McGavin (Sean Penn) […]

Feb, 06

The Pyx *** (1973, Karen Black, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pilon) – Classic Movie Review 8100

Director Harvey Hart’s intriguing 1973 Canadian supernatural horror film The Pyx is based on John Buell’s 1959 novel and stars Christopher Plummer as a Canadian cop, Montréal Police Detective Sergeant Jim Henderson, who exposes a […]

Feb, 06

The Last of Sheila **** (1973, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, James Mason) – Classic Movie Review 8099

A fine near all-star cast enlivens producer-director Herbert Ross’s elegant 1973 satirical murder mystery The Last of Sheila, ingeniously written, unexpectedly, by mystery buffs Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, who set loose a barrage of […]

Feb, 06

Python * (2000, Casper Van Dien, Robert Englund, Wil Wheaton, Jenny McCarthy, Frayne Rosanoff) – Classic Movie Review 8098

Director Richard Clabaugh’s 2000 film Python is a really atrocious horror movie, wasting Casper Van Dien (as Bart Parker), Robert Englund (as Dr Anton Rudolph) and Wil Wheaton (as Tommy), with a laughable script by […]

Feb, 05

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