Derek Winnert

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown ** (1957, Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Fred Clark, Adolphe Menjou, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 7928

Based on a novel by Sylvia Tate, director Norman Taurog’s 1957 crime comedy The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is an interesting but tasteless comedy version of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, in which Jane Russell plays […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

The Revolt of Mamie Stover *** (1956, Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7927

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1956 CinemaScope and Deluxe Color drama The Revolt of Mamie Stover is based on the novel by William Bradford Huie and stars Jane Russell as the titular Mamie Stover, a busty young […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians [Signore & signori] *** (1966, Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Gigi Ballista) – Classic Movie Review 7926

The estimable Virna Lisi gives an entertaining turn as Milena Zulian to give a lift to director Pietro Germi’s often unsubtle and overacted but sometimes sharp and amusing Italian La Ronde-style sex farce The Birds, […]

Dec, 20

A Man and a Woman [Un homme et une femme] **** (1966, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant) – Classic Movie Review 7,925

Director Claude Lelouch’s 1966 A Man and a Woman [Un Homme et une Femme] is the quintessential French Sixties chocolate box movie, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant as screenwriter Anne Gauthier (Aimée) and sports-car […]

Dec, 19

Hot Blood ** (1956, Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 7924

Made in lurid Technicolor and wholly unsuitable widescreen, director Nicholas Ray’s 1955 Hot Blood is totally camp, kitsch, trashy and, quite honestly, just plain bad. But it is nevertheless quite a lot of fun to […]

Dec, 19

Hostile Witness ** (1968, Ray Milland, Sylvia Syms, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7923

Ray Milland directs the 1968 film of the British courtroom drama play by Jack Roffey which he had earlier appeared in successfully on Broadway, with Roffey writing his own screenplay. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. Milland also […]

Dec, 19

A Man Alone *** (1955, Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 7922

Ray Milland’s début as director is this thoughtful, well-made 1955 Republic Pictures Western A Man Alone, in which Nadine Corrigan (Mary Murphy), the beautiful daughter of a lawman, Sheriff Gil Corrigan (Ward Bond), conceals in their basement a […]

Dec, 19

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