Derek Winnert

I Take This Woman ** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 7379

Spencer Tracy stars as a New York doctor called Karl Decker who finds it isn’t love after all when he takes this troubled society woman Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr) as his wife, in director W S […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

I Take This Woman ** (1931, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware) – Classic Movie Review 7378

Director Marion Gering’s 1931 I Take This Woman stars the alluring team of Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in this shaky romantic drama, based on Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novel Lost Ecstasy. Cooper stars as a cowboy […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

Thunder in the City ** (1937, Edward G Robinson, Luli Deste, Ralph Richardson, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 7377

Director Marion Gering’s 1937 Thunder in the City brought Edward G Robinson to Britain for this dated crime comedy drama about a British aristocrat, The Duke (Nigel Bruce), who inveigles a pushy American business publicist, Dan Armstrong (Robinson), […]

Jul, 30

Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] *** (1978, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi) – Classic Movie Review 7376

Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]

Jul, 30

And the Ship Sails On [E La Nave Va] *** (1983, Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier, Janet Suzman) – Classic Movie Review 7375

A luxury liner sails from Naples in 1914 with a boatload of friends and colleagues aboard to scatter the ashes of a great soprano, Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman), in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s stylised 1983 theatrical […]

Jul, 30

Wings of the Hawk *** (1953, Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz) – Classic Movie Review 7374

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 Wings of the Hawk is a good-quality standard Western from Universal Pictures, with the usual heroics set against a convincingly etched South American backdrop, with solid dialogue and strong bursts of action. […]

Jul, 30

Unaccustomed As We Are *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd) – Classic Movie Review 7373

Directors Lewis R Foster and Hal Roach’s 1929 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 20-minute comedy short Unaccustomed As We Are is a fine talkie debut for the boys, though it was made both in sound and silent […]

Jul, 29

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