Derek Winnert

Metropolitan *** (1935, Lawrence Tibbett, Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 7468

Director Richard Boleslawski’s enjoyable 1935 musical romantic drama Metropolitan is mainly memorable for the marvellous baritone singing of Lawrence Tibbett, who plays a young singer desperate for his big break. Although Tibbett shows that he […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

The Circle *** (1925, Eleanor Boardman, Creighton Hale, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B Francis, Eugenie Besserer, George Fawcett, Otto Hoffman, Joan Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7467

Director Frank Borzage brings W Somerset Maugham’s 1921 stage hit The Circle to the screen with some great moments between Eleanor Boardman as Elizabeth Cheney and Creighton Hale as Arnold Cheney in this beautifully shot […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Hangman’s House *** (1928, Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, Larry Kent, Earle Fox, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7466

John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]

Aug, 18

3 Bad Men **** (1926, George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen) – Classic Movie Review 7465

Director John Ford’s 1926 Western 3 Bad Men is an enduring, great Ford silent movie, in which the star trio of outlaw gunslingers turn kindly to help a girl whose father has been killed by horse […]

Aug, 18

The Heroes of Telemark ** (1965, Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Michael Redgrave, Eric Porter) – Classic Movie Review 7464

Director Anthony Mann’s 1965 well-meaning but struggling World War Two Norwegian Resistance movie The Heroes of Telemark stars Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Michael Redgrave and Eric Porter. Dr Rolf […]

Aug, 18

Three Faces West *** (1940, John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 7463

‘GUILTY…OF DARING TO LOVE AND LIVE! ‘ Three Faces West is directed in 1940 by New York City-born film-maker Bernard Vorhaus, a graduate of Harvard University, for Republic Pictures, where contract player John Wayne had finally become […]

Aug, 18

Further Up the Creek ** (1958, David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 7462

David Tomlinson is back as British naval captain Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather for more navy larks (but without co-star Peter Sellers alas) in director Val Guest’s instant 1958 sequel to Up the Creek, this time with Frankie Howerd […]

Aug, 18

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