Derek Winnert

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The War Lover * (1962, Steve McQueen, Shirley Anne Field, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 6460

‘Some men love war the way others love women. This is the story of both kinds!’ Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 British black and white wartime adventure film and aviation epic The War Lover is charismatically […]

Dec, 23

Twelve O’Clock High ***** (1949, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 6124

Gregory Peck was Oscar nominated for one of his best roles as Brigadier General Frank Savage, an American bomb-group commander cracking up at a wartime British base, in director Henry King’s outstanding, involving and highly […]

Oct, 21

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ***** (1941, Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Bernard Miles, Googie Withers, Pamela Brown, Peter Ustinov) – Classic Movie Review 5433

One of our British bombers – B for Bertie – is damaged by Nazi anti-aircraft fire and has come down in Holland where its stalwart pukka British crew (played by Hugh Burden, Eric Portman, Hugh […]

May, 11

Target for Tonight **** (1941, dir Harry Watt) – Classic Movie Review 4693

‘Actually filmed under fire! The RAF is its cast! The RAF filmed it!’ Director Harry Watt’s renowned documentary of the events leading to the carrying out of an RAF night bombing raid on Germany was […]

Nov, 24

Passage to Marseille ***½ (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Michèle Morgan, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 3880

Director Michael Curtiz’s propaganda-driven 1944 wartime thriller provides a slightly bumpy passage despite the first-class passengers, including the welcome reunion of five of the stars of Casablanca (1942) – Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre […]

Jun, 17

Air Force **** (1943, John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, John Ridgley, George Tobias, James Brown, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3172

Director Howard Hawks’s extremely well made and rousing 1943 patriotic wartime flag-waving drama about the American crew of an Air Force Boeing B17 bomber named the Mary Ann on a Far East mission in 1941 […]

Dec, 19

Fail Safe ***** (1964, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Walter Matthau, Dan O’Herlihy, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Sorrell Booke, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 1379

Director Sidney Lumet’s brilliant 1964 nuclear war thriller is sweatily tense throughout and often heart-stopping. Despite its ultra-gripping, important story, dedicated, vital performances, uber-tense mood and deadly message, it was sadly and unfairly wiped out […]

Jun, 29

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