Derek Winnert

Hell on Frisco Bay *** (1955, Alan Ladd, Edward G. Robinson, Joanne Dru) – Classic Movie Review 7268

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1955 thriller Hell on Frisco Bay tells the hard-boiled police story of ex-cop Steve Rollins (Alan Ladd), framed for manslaughter, who is released on parole after five years in prison and wants […]

Jul, 08 · in Reviews

Living It Up *** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7267

Director Norman Taurog’s free-wheeling 1954 Technicolor carefree screwball comedy Living It Up stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold as The Mayor, Fred Clark, Sheree North and Sig Ruman. Lewis plays Homer Flagg, […]

Jul, 08 · in Reviews

Walking My Baby Back Home ** (1953, Donald O’Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, Lori Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7266

A group of former World War Two American army buddies join together again to play jazz, starting a band, which flops so he joins Colonel Dan Wallace (George Cleveland)’s a minstrel show and falls for the Colonel’s […]

Jul, 08

Rogue Cop **** (1954, Robert Taylor, George Raft, Janet Leigh, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis) – Classic Movie Review 7265

Director Roy Rowland’s 1954 black and white Rogue Cop is a commendably taut, tough film noir thriller with a neat story and an ideal, well deployed cast. John F Seitz was Oscar nominated for Best Cinematography, […]

Jul, 08

Safari * (1956, Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin, Earl Cameron) – Classic Movie Review 7264

‘Murderous Mau-Mau! Maddened Beasts! Mighty Jungle Love!’ There are no surprises here in director Terence Young’s fumbling 1956 British adventure film Safari, which has little going for it except the reasonably enjoyable cast. Hired by […]

Jul, 08

Mourning Becomes Electra ** (1947, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Coleman, Leo Genn, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 7263

Ah, yes, ‘Mother and Daughter Loving the Same Man!’ That idea could make an American romcom or it could be a Greek tragedy. Certainly here we don’t see the funny side of it. Writer/ producer/ […]

Jul, 07

Sister Kenny *** (1946, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 7262

A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]

Jul, 07

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