Derek Winnert

Up the Down Staircase *** (1967, Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 7461

Director Robert Mulligan’s 1967 Up the Down Staircase stars Sandy Dennis, who is superb as Sylvia Barrett, the rookie teacher battling against all the myriad of troubles of a tough New York inner-city high school, […]

Aug, 18 · in Reviews

Four Faces West *** (1948, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 7460

‘The Strangest Desperado the West Has Ever Known’. ‘Hunted from the black hills through a thousand miles of badlands!’ Director Alfred E Green’s well-produced, involving 1948 Western Four Faces West (aka They Passed This Way) […]

Aug, 18 · in Reviews

Unpublished Story *** (1942, Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 7459

Director Harold French’s 1942 British film Unpublished Story is an intriguing morale-boosting World War Two propaganda drama, played with much spirit by a fine cast, and lifted with some well-written dialogue. German fifth columnists take […]

Aug, 18

Three Godfathers [3 Godfathers] *** (1948, John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7458

Director John Ford’s 1948 Western Three Godfathers is the fourth film version of Peter B Kyne’s old (true) story Marked Men about fugitives John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr coming across a mother while […]

Aug, 17

Three Godfathers *** (1936, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 7457

Richard Boleslawski is MGM’s surprise choice to direct the 1936 Western Three Godfathers, the third film version of Peter B Kyne’s old (true) story Marked Men, in which Chester Morris, Walter Brennan and Lewis Stone star […]

Aug, 17

Men in White ** (1934, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 7456

Director Richard [Ryszard] Boleslawski’s 1934 hospital-set soapy romantic drama Men in White stars Clark Gable as devoted, dedicated young doctor Dr Ferguson, who finds that operating room work under Dr Hochberg (Jean Hersholt) and romance with his […]

Aug, 17

Rasputin and the Empress *** (1932, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Ralph Morgan, C Henry Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 7455

Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1932 MGM drama Rasputin and the Empress is famed in movie history as the only film in which sibling superstars John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore appeared together. But, unfortunately, there are only a couple of […]

Aug, 17

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