Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

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

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

Unpublished Story *** (1942, Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 7459

Director Harold French’s 1942 British film Unpublished Story is an intriguing morale-boosting World War Two propaganda drama, played with much spirit by a fine cast, and lifted with some well-written dialogue.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

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