Derek Winnert

The Racketeer [Love’s Conquest ] *** (1929, Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew) – Classic Movie Review 7380

Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

I Take This Woman ** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 7379

Spencer Tracy stars as a New York doctor called Karl Decker who finds it isn’t love after all when he takes this troubled society woman Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr) as his wife, in director W S […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

I Take This Woman ** (1931, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware) – Classic Movie Review 7378

Director Marion Gering’s 1931 I Take This Woman stars the alluring team of Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in this shaky romantic drama, based on Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novel Lost Ecstasy. Cooper stars as a cowboy […]

Jul, 31

Thunder in the City ** (1937, Edward G Robinson, Luli Deste, Ralph Richardson, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 7377

Director Marion Gering’s 1937 Thunder in the City brought Edward G Robinson to Britain for this dated crime comedy drama about a British aristocrat, The Duke (Nigel Bruce), who inveigles a pushy American business publicist, Dan Armstrong (Robinson), […]

Jul, 30

Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] *** (1978, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi) – Classic Movie Review 7376

Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]

Jul, 30

And the Ship Sails On [E La Nave Va] *** (1983, Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier, Janet Suzman) – Classic Movie Review 7375

A luxury liner sails from Naples in 1914 with a boatload of friends and colleagues aboard to scatter the ashes of a great soprano, Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman), in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s stylised 1983 theatrical […]

Jul, 30

Wings of the Hawk *** (1953, Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz) – Classic Movie Review 7374

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 Wings of the Hawk is a good-quality standard Western from Universal Pictures, with the usual heroics set against a convincingly etched South American backdrop, with solid dialogue and strong bursts of action. […]

Jul, 30

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