Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Riders of Destiny *** (1933, John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al St John) – Classic Movie Review 7128

The 26-year-old John Wayne plays ‘Singin’ Sandy’ Saunders (but dubbed, with the singing voice courtesy of Smith Ballew), a singing undercover US Government agent who battles against stagecoach robbing villains, and in particular bad guy James […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Salome’s Last Dance *** (1988, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais-Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7127

‘NOTORIOUS, SCANDALOUS, WILDE!’ Writer-director Ken Russell takes a walk on the Wilde side and again challenges our good will and his actors’ stamina in his provocative and colourful, sometimes amusing and inventive, sometimes silly and […]

Jun, 06 · in Reviews

Salomé **** (1922, Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 7126

Director Charles Bryant’s extravagant black and white 1922 art nouveau silent movie version of Oscar Wilde’s play cost more than $350,000 to make and is outrageously designed by Natacha Rambova, who was clearly influenced by […]

Jun, 06

Salome Where She Danced *** (1945, Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Albert Dekker, David Bruce, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 7125

In the original story by Michael J Phillips, gorgeous Yvonne De Carlo plays a Viennese exotic dancer, Salome, who, during the Franco-Prussian War, escapes from Austria to America because she is suspected of being a […]

Jun, 06

Salome *** (1953, Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 7124

Director William Dieterle’s 1953 Salome is a spectacularly made if shakily scripted (by Harry Kleiner) movie epic of the famous Bible tale. The story of the biblical stripper (taken up by Oscar Wilde, who turned it […]

Jun, 06

Saigon *** (1948, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Morris Carnovsky) – Classic Movie Review 7123

The fairly imaginative 1948 crime action adventure film Saigon again pairs the sizzling hit team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, whose star chemistry is the making of the movie. Director Leslie Fenton’s only fairly […]

Jun, 05

Bodyguard **** (1948, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Elizabeth Risdon) – Classic Movie Review 7122

Director Richard O Fleischer’s 1948 Bodyguard is a tough, taut and tense little Forties B-movie thriller, very fine of its type. It is an outstanding and excellently handled film noir who-done-it. Lawrence Tierney stars as […]

Jun, 05

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