Derek Winnert

Tender Comrade *** (1943, Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 7,500

Ginger Rogers stars as an American defence plant worker who pools her wages and shares a house with three other wives while her husband (Robert Ryan) is away fighting in the Second World War, in […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

Tenderness of the Wolves [Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe] *** (1973, Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen) – Classic Movie Review 7499

Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced, edited and appears (as Wittowski) in director Ulli Lommel’s gruesome and eerie but riveting and revealing 1973 German horror film Tenderness of the Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe), a version of […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

Lady of Burlesque *** (1943, Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, J Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson) – Classic Movie Review 7,498

Striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee tried her hand at writing with the 1941 burlesque mystery novel The G-String Murders, filmed as the 1943 musical comedy-mystery movie Lady of Burlesque, starring Barbara Stanwyck as stripper Dixie […]

Aug, 26

Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497

Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]

Aug, 25

The Young Mr Pitt *** (1942, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 7496

A well-cast Robert Donat gives a strong and fervent performance as the British premier William Pitt the Younger, who was only 24 when he became first minister in 1783 as England’s youngest Prime Minister. It […]

Aug, 25

Young Mr Lincoln **** (1939, Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan) – Classic Movie Review 7495

Director John Ford’s 1939 black and white historical drama Young Mr Lincoln stars the young Henry Fonda, who gives a good account of himself in one of his most famous roles as baby Abe Lincoln. It […]

Aug, 25

Belle Starr *** (1941, Randolph Scott, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 7494

Director Irving Cummings’s entertaining 1941 Western Belle Starr casts Gene Tierney as the most wanted woman gunslinger in the wild West in this 20th Century Fox studio Western, set at the end of the Civil […]

Aug, 25

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