Derek Winnert

No Man’s Woman *** (1955, Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates, Jil Jarmyn, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 7609

Republic Pictures’ thoroughly enjoyable 1955 film noir No Man’s Woman gives Marie Windsor a rare, much deserved star role as a scheming femme fatale who double-crosses five people but ends up dead. ‘RUTHLESS, SHAMELESS! – There Was Only One […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

The Sniper **** (1952, Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Richard Kiley, Frank Faylen) – Classic Movie Review 7608

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1952 thriller The Sniper is an excellent Fifties film noir-style crime drama that is made all the more powerful for being shot in a groundbreaking semi-naturalistic fashion. In the story by Edward […]

Sep, 21 · in Uncategorized

Murder by Contract **** (1958, Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi) – Classic Movie Review 7,607

The outstanding 1958 B-movie film noir crime thriller Murder by Contract stars Vince Edwards, cast against type as an existentialist hit man. Martin Scorsese praised its ‘economy of style’ and named it ‘the film that […]

Sep, 21

They Won’t Forget **** (1937, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger, Lana Turner, Clinton Rosemond) – Classic Movie Review 7606

Claude Rains stars in the 1937 film noir mystery drama They Won’t Forget as a racist prosecuting attorney, who manipulates the press and Southern prejudice to gain election as governor after a teenager (Lana Turner, […]

Sep, 21

We’re Not Married! *** (1952, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Paul Douglas, Eve Arden, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mitzi Gaynor, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 7605

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1952 We’re Not Married! is an entertaining and enjoyable film made up of separate stories about five wedded couples from Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler’s well assorted stories, varying from funny to touching, with […]

Sep, 20

Ladies of the Chorus *** (1948, Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 7604

Director Phil Karlson’s 1948 cheap and cheerful, quickly made musical Ladies of the Chorus offers a must-see chance to see Marilyn Monroe’s first leading role, which is the main attraction of this thin theatre drama […]

Sep, 20

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! *** (1948, June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Natalie Wood, Anne Revere, Tom Tully, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7603

The 1948 Technicolor romantic comedy drama Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, written and directed by F Hugh Herbert, stars June Haver, Lon McCallister and Walter Brennan, but it is known, if at all, for Marilyn Monroe’s earliest speaking role, a one-line bit […]

Sep, 20

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