Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

The Birds and the Bees *** (1956, George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven) – Classic Movie Review 7921

Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 The Birds and the Bees is a Technicolor and VistaVision remake of the 1942 black and white gem The Lady Eve, this time with George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven […]

Dec, 18

The 3 Penny Opera [Die 3 Groschen-Oper] ****(1931, Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Fritz Rasp, Reinhold Schünzel, Valeska Gert) – Classic Movie Review 7920

The 3 Penny Opera [Die 3 Groschen-Oper] is the adaptation by Bertolt Brecht (story) and Kurt Weill (music) of John Gay’s opera The Beggar’s Opera, in which dashing gentleman thief Mack the Knife (aka Mackie […]

Dec, 18

What Price Glory? *** (1926, (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores del Rio) – Classic Movie Review 7919

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1926 silent comedy-drama war film classic What Price Glory? (based on a 1924 long-running Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings) stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe as Captain Flagg and […]

Dec, 18

The Safecracker *** (1958, Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 7,918

Ray Milland directs and stars in the 1958 British low-budget film noir thriller The Safecracker, an involving, fact-based wartime story of a locksmith, gone criminal as an antiques robber. Ray Milland directs and stars in […]

Dec, 17

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