Derek Winnert

Beware Spooks! *** (1939, Joe E Brown, Mary Carlisle, Clarence Kolb) – Classic Movie Review 7386

Director Edward Sedgwick’s pleasant 1939 Columbia Pictures 65-minute black and white comedy Beware Spooks! is a moderately well made, mildly amusing vehicle for Joe E Brown’s knockabout antics as jittery, bumbling cop Roy Gifford, who first […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

Bonnie Scotland *** (1935, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, James Finlayson, Daphne Pollard, William Janney) – Classic Movie Review 7385

Director James Horne’s Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s 1935 Hal Roach Studios comedy Bonnie Scotland is a below-par (for them) lampoon of British Empire adventure epics, redeemed by their performances, some good support turns, some appealing […]

Aug, 01 · in Reviews

Naked Alibi *** (1954, Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry) – Classic Movie Review 7,384

Sterling Hayden and Gene Barry are ideal, and so is noir favourite Gloria Grahame as bar singer Marianna, in the toughly cast, enjoyable little 1954 crime thriller Naked Alibi, with a moody film noir atmosphere. […]

Aug, 01

Marine Raiders ** (1944, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 7383

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1944 RKO Radio Pictures release Marine Raiders is a minor but intriguing wartime action movie plus romantic drama, with the emphasis on the details of Second World War troop training. Pat O’Brien and […]

Aug, 01

The Iceman Cometh **** (1973, Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 7382

Director John Frankenheimer’s remarkable 1973 The Iceman Cometh, made for The American Film Theatre, is an extremely satisfactory filmed-theatre version of Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama set in a 1912 waterfront bar. Lee Marvin, having a […]

Aug, 01

Executive Action ***** (1973, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer) – Classic Movie Review 7,381

The 1973 film Executive Action is a brilliant political thriller constructing a conspiracy theory around President Kennedy’s assassination. Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan play the leaders of a right-wing plot to use Lee Harvey Oswald as […]

Jul, 31

The Racketeer [Love’s Conquest ] *** (1929, Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew) – Classic Movie Review 7380

Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]

Jul, 31

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