Derek Winnert

Blood Alley *** (1955, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Mike Mazurki, Anita Ekberg, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 7803

Director William Wellman’s interesting but uncomfortable 1955 adventure movie Blood Alley stars John Wayne and Lauren Bacall as Merchant marine captain Tom Wider (Wayne) and doctor’s daughter Cathy Grainger (Bacall). They help a bunch of Chinese […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

The Sea Chase *** (1955, John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness, Dick Davalos, John Qualen, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 7802

Director John Farrow’s 1955 wartime action adventure The Sea Chase has an extraordinary piece of casting in John Wayne playing Captain Karl Erlich, the anti-Nazi German captain of a freighter, anxious to set out from Sydney […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

These Glamour Girls ** (1939, Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise) – Classic Movie Review 7801

Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1939 romantic comedy drama These Glamour Girls highlights class difference when a dance hall hostess girl (Lana Turner) from the wrong side of the tracks is casually invited by a drunken rich young […]

Nov, 18

These Old Broads *** (2001, Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman, Peter Graves, Gene Barry) – Classic Movie Review 7800

Director Matthew Diamond’s 2001 TV movie These Old Broads stars Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine and Joan Collins as drama queens Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne and Addie Holden, who vow never to work together again but get […]

Nov, 18

These Thousand Hills *** (1959, Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 7799

Director Richard Fleischer’s punchy, intelligent 1958 Western These Thousand Hills is pumped full of admirable acting, robust action, cute romance and thoughtful drama, even if it fails to live up to the manic intensity of Pulitzer-prize […]

Nov, 17

These Wilder Years ** (1956, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7,798

The 1956 American drama film These Wilder Years is only onscreen pairing of James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck. Director Roy Rowland’s 1956 drama These Wilder Years is the only teaming of great stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck, […]

Nov, 17

Yellowbeard * (1983, Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, Peter Cook, Eric Idle) – Classic Movie Review 7797

Graham Chapman stars as pirate Captain Yellowbeard, who is allowed by the authorities to escape from prison to lead them to his cut-throat treasure, in Mel Damski’s failed 1983 British pirate comedy romp Yellowbeard. You […]

Nov, 17

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