Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Arch of Triumph ** (1948, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 6696

Co-writer/ producer/ director Lewis Milestone’s stodgy 1948 romantic war drama stars the incomparable Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, who are up to their pretty necks in a chunk of turgid, overblown heavyweight romantic melodrama based […]

Feb, 15 · in Reviews

Three Comrades **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 6695

F Scott Fitzgerald gains his only scriptwriter credit during his stay at MGM (though he also worked on A Yank at Oxford and The Women) for his adaptation (along with Edward E Paramore Jr) of […]

Feb, 15 · in Reviews

Ramrod *** (1947, Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea, Preston Foster, Charles Ruggles, Donald Crisp, Arleen Whelan, Lloyd Bridges, Don DeFore) – Classic Movie Review 6694

Veronica Lake stars in her husband director André De Toth’s no-holds-barred 1947 Western Ramrod as Connie Dickason, a willful woman cattle-owner who refuses to be bettered either by man or by beast, though cattleman Frank […]

Feb, 15

The Other Love ** (1947, Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland, Joan Lorring) – Classic Movie Review 6693

‘What Woman Dares Live The Other Love… What Man Dares Give The Other Love!’ What are they even talking about? Director André De Toth’s 1947 romantic melodrama stars a cast of notable actors in Barbara Stanwyck, David […]

Feb, 15

Slattery’s Hurricane *** (1949, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 6692

Richard Widmark scores strongly as Lieutenant Will Slattery USNR, the shifty, selfish and seedy-seeming anti-hero of director André De Toth’s 1949 Florida drug-smuggling adventure movie Slattery’s Hurricane. Studio 20th Century Fox had wanted Tyrone Power, but he’d […]

Feb, 15

Man in the Saddle *** (1951, Randolph Scott, Alexander Knox, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Richard Rober, John Russell) – Classic Movie Review 6691

Director André De Toth churns out another in his notable series of Randolph Scott Western in 1951, and it is hardly a surprise that there is a lot of gunsmoke and death on the range. […]

Feb, 14

Last of the Comanches *** (1953, Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Lloyd Bridges, Johnny Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6690

Director André De Toth brings adroit, way more than merely just adequate handling to a standard, unsurprising US Cavalry versus the Indians tale about a group of stranded soldiers facing a remorseless Native American raid […]

Feb, 14

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