Derek Winnert

The Life of Jimmy Dolan ** (1933, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 8024

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan [The Kid’s Last Fight in GB] stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who comes out on fighting form and gives an […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

Espionage Agent ** (1939, Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 8020

A pleasant cast assembles for director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Espionage Agent, a once timely but now just low-voltage-seeming black and white paranoia espionage suspense thriller about Nazi spy rings taking over in the American heartlands […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

Confessions of a Nazi Spy ***½ (1939, Edward G Robinson, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas, George Sanders, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8,023

Warner Brothers take on the Hun in director Anatole Litvak’s 1939 American spy political thriller film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a timely exposé of Nazis at work in America just before the Second World […]

Jan, 16

Castle on the Hudson [Years Without Days] ** (1940, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O’Neill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 8022

John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]

Jan, 16

London Suite [Neil Simon’s London Suite] * (1996, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 8021

A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]

Jan, 16

The Men’s Club ** (1986, Roy Scheider, David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel, Treat Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8019

The remarkable cast ensures quality acting for director Peter Medak’s oddball, worrying 1986 film The Men’s Club, based on a novel by Leonard Michaels about a group of men who get together to form a […]

Jan, 15

Negatives ** (1968, Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 8018

Director Peter Medak’s bizarre 1968 drama Negatives stars Glenda Jackson and Peter McEnery in an everyday tale of non-married pair, whose sex life has the man, used-furniture dealer Theo, impersonating the infamous Edwardian killer Dr Crippen […]

Jan, 15

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