Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "based on novel"

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This Earth Is Mine ** (1959, Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Dorothy McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 10,911

‘I want you… no matter what the price or penalty!’ Claude Rains as Rock Hudson’s grandfather? That’s the kind of half-brained idea that propels director Henry King’s soapy 1959 Universal International Pictures Technicolor and CinemaScope […]

Feb, 13

The Ringer **** (1931, Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden, Carol Goodner, Esmond Knight, Gordon Harker, Franklin Dyall) – Classic Movie Review 10,845

Director Walter Forde’s 1931 The Ringer is an excellent early-sound black and white film version of the Edgar Wallace 1925 novel The Gaunt Stranger and 1929 play The Ringer, with a fine cast on its […]

Jan, 29

Cash McCall *** (1960, James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E G Marshall, Henry Jones, Otto Kruger, Roland Winters, Edward Platt) – Classic Movie Review 10,837

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1960 romantic drama Cash McCall stars James Garner as young, slick financier Cash McCall, who gets rich by buying failing businesses and reselling them. But his stock falls when he bids for […]

Jan, 27

I Was a Spy *** (1933, Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 10,829

‘TO ANSWER THE LURE OF HER LIPS WAS FATAL!’ Director Victor Saville’s 1933 I Was a Spy stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, a real-life World War One nurse who in German-occupied Belgium in 1914 […]

Jan, 25

Alphabet City *** (1984, Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Kate Vernon, Jami Gertz, Zohra Lampert) – Classic Movie Review 10,824

‘At 19, they gave him the streets. Tonight, they’re going to take them back.’ Director Amos Poe’s interesting, tough-toned 1984 crime thriller Alphabet City stars Vincent Spano, then a rising star player apparently going places, […]

Jan, 24

The Hunters *** (1958, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, May Britt, Richard Egan, Lee Philips) – Classic Movie Review 10,811

Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner star as two very different US Air Force fighter pilots, in Dick Powell’s 1958 Korean War movie The Hunters, with May Britt, Richard Egan, Lee Philips. Robert Wagner supports main […]

Jan, 20

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short **** (1966, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck) – Classic Movie Review 10,718

Director André Delvaux’s 1966 Belgian film The Man Who Had his Hair Cut Short [De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen] stars Senne Rouffaer as a middle-aged law clerk whose obsession with a famous […]

Dec, 28

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