Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Breakheart Pass ** (1975, Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 6780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie vehicle for Charles Bronson is Western murder mystery hokum based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, in which people are being mysteriously bumped off on a train with medical supplies […]

Mar, 09 · in Reviews

The Gallant Hours *** (1960, James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 6779

Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story **** (2017, documentary) – Movie Review

Bombshell: A fascinating, ultimately sad story, hauntingly well told. Who knew it? The famous Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr was an under-appreciated genius inventor. Wow! Writer-director Alexandra Dean’s biographical, historical documentary tells a fascinating, moving, and ultimately sad […]

Mar, 08

Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]

Mar, 08

Ladies of Leisure *** (1930, Barbara Stanwyck, Lowell Sherman, Ralph Graves) – Classic Movie Review 6778

Barbara Stanwyck plays a typical Thirties wisecracking, gold-digging model girl, in her first film with frequent director Frank Capra, the romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). ‘ALL DIALOG DRAMA OF NEW YORK’S NITE LIFE. Zippy, […]

Mar, 07

The Miracle Woman **** (1931, Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 6777

The 24-year-old Barbara Stanwyck works her own miracle, credibly playing Florence Fallon, a Bible bashing minister’s daughter who loses her faith and turns con-woman, a fake evangelist who pretends to heal sick folk to make […]

Mar, 07

The Bitter Tea of General Yen **** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori) – Classic Movie Review 6776

‘The flaming drama of a forbidden love that wrecked an empire! ‘ ‘They found a love they dared not touch!’ Ah yes, great! Director Frank Capra’s sexy 1932 beauty-and-the-beast romantic melodrama stars Barbara Stanwyck as […]

Mar, 07

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