Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "airplane"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "airplane".

Family Portrait *** (1950, voice of Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 9152

Director Humphrey Jennings’s esoteric 1950 short film Family Portrait is a wistful, rather attractive and appealing documentary celebration of Britain’s past, with warmly nostalgic scenes of the nation’s home, town, farm, scientific, political and social life, […]

Dec, 13

The Sky Dragon * (1949, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone, Joel Marston, Noel Neill, Iris Adrian, Elena Verdugo, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 9063

The Thirties and Forties Charlie Chan series ends with a dying gasp in director Lesley Selander’s 1949 The Sky Dragon, perhaps the weakest entry of all the series, as Roland Winters returns for the sixth […]

Nov, 10

Ceiling Zero *** (1936, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 8965

Director Howard Hawks’s robust 1936 black and white civil aviation romantic adventure drama Ceiling Zero stars the ever bouncy James Cagney as a daredevil womanising pilot called Dizzy Davis, who pretends to have a heart […]

Oct, 06

Tarzan’s New York Adventure *** (1942, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield) – Classic Movie Review 8046

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 Tarzan’s New York Adventure is the lively and exciting final outing for the much-loved screen partnership of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan together as Tarzan and Jane. In it, Tarzan and […]

Jan, 22

Love at First Bite **** (1979, George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 7972

George Hamilton’s 1979 vampire spoof movie Love at First Bite is his best film in 20 years – an unexpectedly funny Dracula send-up, with Hamilton out for the Count as Vladimir Dracula in New York, […]

Jan, 02

Flight to Fury ** (1964, Dewey Martin, Fay Spain, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7848

Director Monte Hellman and writer/ star Jack Nicholson shot the 1964 black and white adventure movie Flight to Fury on location in the Philippines together with their Back Door to Hell. In the story by Monte Hellman […]

Nov, 27

Wedding Present *** (1936, Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7183

Director Richard Wallace’s 1936 amusing Paramount Pictures black and white media screwball comedy Wedding Present re-teams charismatic stars Cary Grant and Joan Bennett (fresh from Big Brown Eyes) as romancing reporters in a The Front Page-style […]

Jun, 17

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.