Derek Winnert

Man-Proof ** (1938, Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7,282

MGM’s starry 1938 film Man-Proof tells a tale of a philanderer (Walter Pidgeon) marrying one woman (Rosalind Russell) while carrying on with another (Myrna Loy). Even the very starry cast cannot motor up into top […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

Man-Trap *** (1961, Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7281

‘Too many men… Too many thrills… Soon – Too much violence!’ Producer/ director Edmond O’Brien makes the most of his rare chance to direct (his second and last after 1954’s Shield for Murder) in 1961’s brisk, capable black […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

The Master of Ballantrae *** (1984, Michael York, Richard Thomas, John Gielgud, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, Finola Hughes, Nickolas Grace, Brian Blessed) – Classic Movie Review 7280

Likeable hero Michael York swashbuckles impressively again in director Douglas Hickox’s spruce, fast-paced, well produced 1984 British-made TV version of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel about the plot to put Bonnie Prince Charlie […]

Jul, 11

The Master of Ballantrae **** (1953, Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Furneaux, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 7279

Director William Keighley’s rousing British made 1953 Warner Bros movie The Master of Ballantrae stars Errol Flynn, who swashbuckles one more time in a totally rewritten and truncated version of the classic 1889 Robert Louis […]

Jul, 11

The Black Pirate **** (1926, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 7278

‘THE MOST ROMANTIC ROLE DOUG EVER HAD! A Picture of Extreme Beauty, Full of Action, Thrills and Love’.  In director Albert Parker’s 1926 vintage Douglas Fairbanks Sr silent movie The Black Pirate, the co-writer/ producer […]

Jul, 11

Against All Flags *** (1952, Errol Flynn, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Mildred Natwick, Robert Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 7277

‘He Ravished The Pirate Port Of Madagascar To Steal The Love Of Its Corsair Queen!’ Director George Sherman’s 1952 Against All Flags is one of Errol Flynn’s last pirate movies, with the on-form star still […]

Jul, 10

Morituri [The Saboteur, Code Name Morituri] ** (1965, Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 7,276

The double Oscar-nominated 1965 action war thriller film Morituri stars Marlon Brando, reprising his tormented German character as a World War Two spy called Robert Crain helping the British grab a German freighter helmed by […]

Jul, 10

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