Derek Winnert

Home from the Hill **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 7443

Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 film Home from the Hill is a satisfying chunk of American Southern romantic drama with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 American Metrocolor CinemaScope drama film Home from the […]

Aug, 14 · in Reviews

5 Card Stud *** (1968, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 7442

Director Henry Hathaway’s strongly cast but saddle-sore 1968 Western gets a big lift from the eminently watchable, cucumber-cool performances of Dean Martin as gambler Van Morgan and Mitchum as a mysterious gun-carrying minister, the Rev Jonathan […]

Aug, 14 · in Reviews

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ***** (1933, Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 7441

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s justly famous, hard-hitting 1933 Warner Bros’ crusading drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang stars Paul Muni as James Allen, an innocent man turned criminal who goes on the run […]

Aug, 13

20,000 Years in Sing Sing *** (1932, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 7440

Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]

Aug, 13

Young Cassidy *** (1964, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Michael Redgrave, Julie Christie, T P McKenna, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 7439

John Ford was ailing and became sick while directing this 1964 autobiographical portrait of the young life of the playwright and writer Sean O’Casey (Rod Taylor, though he bears no resemblance to him) in Ireland, so Jack […]

Aug, 13

All the Way Home *** (1963, Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 7438

James Agee’s old-time all-American down-home story of angst in the American southern provinces, set during the First World War, becomes a poignant and appealing movie under careful acting and discreet but intense handling by director Alex […]

Aug, 13

Skate Kitchen **** (2018, Rachelle Vinberg, Nina Moran, Jaden Smith) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Crystal Moselle’s vibrant and alive Skate Kitchen (2018) boasts a rich, dynamic and truthful performance by Rachelle Vinberg as Camille, a lonely 18-year-old Long Island suburban teenaged skateboarder who makes friends with a posse of girl […]

Aug, 13

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