Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

You Belong to Me [Good Morning, Doctor] **½ (1941, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 6773

Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1941 romantic comedy You Belong to Me stars the perfectly paired Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda once again after their success in The Lady Eve (1941). It is also known as Good […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Breakfast for Two *** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6772

There is plenty of zing and sparkle, and there are lots of laughs too to be found in director Alfred Santell’s engaging, fast-paced 1937 romantic comedy, with its two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

The Horse Soldiers *** (1959, John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6771

Starting with The Horse Soldiers (1959), six of John Ford’s last eight completed movies were Westerns, including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. But before that, he made only one Western from 1950 to 1959, The Searchers (1956). Director […]

Mar, 06

Donovan’s Reef ** (1963, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Mike Mazurki, Dorothy Lamour, Cesar Romero, Marcel Dalio, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 6770

Ill-health was dogging illustrious action and Westerns film-maker John Ford in 1962 when he directed his buddies John Wayne as war hero Mike ‘Guns’ Donovan and Lee Marvin as Aloysius ‘Boats’ Gilhooley in this 1963 […]

Mar, 06

I Live My Life ** (1935, Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 6769

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1935 screwball comedy romantic drama stars Joan Crawford, who is from the right side of the tracks this time as pampered, bored New York society girl, Kay Bentley. But she […]

Mar, 06

The Bride Wore Red **** (1937, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 6,768

MGM’s 1937 vehicle for Joan Crawford, The Bride Wore Red, is a well-crafted, very jolly escapist romantic comedy film, made by Hollywood’s one-time only woman director, Dorothy Arzner. Based on the Ferenc Molnar play The […]

Mar, 06

The Bride Wore Boots ** (1946, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles, Peggy Wood, Robert Benchley) – Classic Movie Review 6767

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 comedy stars Barbara Stanwyck as Southern heiress Sally Warren, a horsey woman married to Jeff (Robert Cummings), a writer who hates horses, so their marriage goes very bumpy. Sally runs a horse […]

Mar, 05

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