Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Drums Across the River *** (1954, Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye, Hugh O’Brian, Jay Silverheels) – Classic Movie Review 6827

Audie Murphy stars in Drums Across the River as racist but honest cowboy Gary Brannon, a man who joins up with a band of gold-diggers who invade land belonging to the Indians. But he sees […]

Mar, 19 · in Uncategorized

Drum Beat *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan, Robert Keith, Rodolpho Acosta, Charles Bronson, Warner Anderson, Elisha Cook Jr, Anthony Caruso, Richard Gaines) – Classic Movie Review 6826

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1954 Western stars a laid-back Alan Ladd, who plays Indian fighter Johnny MacKay, the man assigned by President Ulysses S Grant (Hayden Rorke) to sort out the problems between the white settlers and […]

Mar, 19 · in Uncategorized

They Came to Cordura ** (1959, Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan, Dick York) – Classic Movie Review 6825

Director Robert Rossen’s 1959 Western, based on a 1958 novel by Glendon Swarthout, is set in 1916 on the Mexican border. The movie is intelligent and interesting, but moderate and sedate. Rossen’s historical adventure drama is enlivened […]

Mar, 19

The Hanging Tree *** (1959, Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, Ben Piazza, George C Scott, Karl Swenson, Virginia Gregg, John Dierkes, King Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6824

Director Delmer Daves’s 1959 Western stars Gary Cooper as ‘Doc’ Frail, a Montana small town doctor who saves local small-time thief Rune (Ben Piazza) from a mob who want to hang him, but he demands the kid becomes […]

Mar, 19

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita *** (1965, Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6823

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita is film-maker Delmer Daves’s final movie, a lively Italian-set love affair soap opera outing with ideal roles for Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi and Richard Todd, who eat them up […]

Mar, 18

Youngblood Hawke *** (1964, James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 6822

James Franciscus stars as American Southern coal truck driver turned writer Arthur ‘Youngblood’ Hawke, who lets fame and the ladies go to his head in New York City, in writer-producer-director Delmer Daves’s 1964 jet set drama […]

Mar, 18

Susan Slade *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 6821

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves’s plush and effective coming-of-age weepie is based on Doris Hume’s novel The Sin of Susan Slade and centres on precocious Susan Slade (Connie Stevens), a teenage daughter who gets pregnant, after a […]

Mar, 18

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