Derek Winnert

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Drum Beat *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan, Robert Keith, Rodolpho Acosta, Charles Bronson, Warner Anderson, Elisha Cook Jr, Anthony Caruso, Richard Gaines) – Classic Movie Review 6826

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1954 Western stars a laid-back Alan Ladd, who plays Indian fighter Johnny MacKay, the man assigned by President Ulysses S Grant (Hayden Rorke) to sort out the problems between the white settlers and […]

Mar, 19

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

The Bounty **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6593

The Bounty (1984) was originally a project for David Lean, who started to work again with screen-writer Robert Bolt on an ambitious two-part movie about the mutiny on the Bounty towards the end of the […]

Jan, 23

The Ghost and Mrs Muir **** (1947, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Anna Lee, Natalie Wood, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 6,567

The 1947 fantasy comedy drama film The Ghost and Mrs Muir stars Gene Tierney as the widowed Mrs Lucy Muir, who buys a haunted home on the English coast. Lucy is befriended by the ghost […]

Jan, 16

Krakatoa: East of Java *** (1968, Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Rossano Brazzi, Barbara Werle, John Leyton, J D Cannon, Sal Mineo, Jacqui Chan) – Classic Movie Review 6251

‘The Incredible Day That Shook The Earth To Its Core!’ Director Bernard L Kowalski’s spirited, globe-hopping 1968 adventure movie offers a good-looking production, matchstick-thin characters, a handsome old boat and a fistful of vintage situations. […]

Nov, 14

Naughty Marietta **** (1935, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 5778

This 1935 movie of the 1910 operetta Victor Herbert (music) and Rida Johnson Young lyrics) gives Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy one of their best opportunities in the first of their series of very jolly, […]

Jul, 18

The Sergeant *** (1968, Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Frank Latimore, Ludmila Mikael) – Classic Movie Review 5725

Director John Flynn’s well-meaning but overheated, and now badly dated 1968 gay melodrama in which Rod Steiger stars as Master Sergeant Albert Callan who understandably gets steamed up over young handsome private Tom Swanson (John […]

Jul, 07

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