Derek Winnert

Every Girl Should Be Married *** (1948, Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7546

‘HOW CAN A MAN HOLD OUT when a gal’s got so much to give out!’ Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Don Hartman’s 1948 comedy Every Girl Should Be Married is based on a story Eleanor Harris, and […]

Sep, 05 · in Reviews

Every Day’s a Holiday **** (1937, Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Walter Catlett, Lloyd Nolan, Herman Bing, Chester Conklin, Louis Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 7545

Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1937 comedy Every Day’s a Holiday offers an eagerly grabbed double role for Mae West as confidence trickster Peaches O’Dea, who sells New York’s Brooklyn Bridge to Fritz Krausmeyer (Herman Bing) […]

Sep, 05 · in Reviews

The Rose Tattoo **** (1955, Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan) – Classic Movie Review 7,544

The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]

Sep, 05

The Return of Swamp Thing ** (1989, Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas, Dick Durock) – Classic Movie Review 7543

Director Jim Wynorski’s campy 1989 American sci-fi action movie The Return of Swamp Thing, based on the DC Comic book by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, is a sequel to Wes Craven’s 1982 Swamp Thing, but this time with a risky […]

Sep, 05

Paisà [Paisan] ***** (1946, Carmela Sazio, Joseph Garland Moore Jr, William Tubbs, Maria Michi, Harriet Medin) – Classic Movie Review 7542

The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]

Sep, 04

Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] ***** (1948, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne) – Classic Movie Review 7541

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1947 Italian neo-realist masterpiece classic drama Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] is a horrific portrait of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, as experienced by a 12-year-old lad (Edmund […]

Sep, 04

Seventh Heaven *** (1937, James Stewart, Simone Simon, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7540

Director Henry King’s 1937 romantic drama Seventh Heaven is an intriguing but mostly unsatisfactory remake of the 1927 silent film classic 7th Heaven with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. This time James Stewart is improbably […]

Sep, 04

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