Derek Winnert

There Ain’t No Justice *** (1939, Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 8107

Director Penrose [Pen] Tennyson’s 1939 black and white British movie There Ain’t No Justice is a bright and flavoursome, if minor Ealing Studios sporting drama, with a punchy, appealing performance from Jimmy Hanley as Tommy […]

Feb, 08 · in Reviews

The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] *** (1961, Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín, Ángel Aranda) – Classic Movie Review 8,106

Lea Massari is know for Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960) and Louis Malle’s Souffle au Coeur (1971) but her career also includes Sergio Leone’s debut The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] (1961). Co-writer/ director Sergio Leone’s 1961 Italian sword and sandal film The […]

Feb, 08 · in Reviews

There Goes the Bride ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 8105

Jessie Matthews’s first major film roles were in Out of the Blue (1931) and then two films directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932), a British screwball black and white romantic musical comedy hit, also […]

Feb, 07

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

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

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

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