Derek Winnert

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Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

Tomorrow Is Forever *** (1946, Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 6705

The contrived 1946 tear-jerking wartime romantic drama movie Tomorrow Is Forever is all but forgotten, even though it stars the unforgettable Orson Welles and Claudette Colbert. Director Irving Pichel’s contrived 1946 tear-jerking black-and-white wartime romantic […]

Feb, 17

Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6670

Director Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 Korean War movie stars his regular actor Rock Hudson, who impresses in a heavyweight role as Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life World War Two bomber pilot and flying chaplain […]

Feb, 10

Sentimental Journey ** (1946, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6312

Director Walter Lang’s 1946 drama is true to its title, and then some. It is an outrageously unabashed, very sentimental and shamefully mawkish tearjerker about a dying Broadway actress who adopts a child to keep […]

Nov, 25

The Gift of Love * (1958, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie) – Classic Movie Review 6311

Director Jean Negulesco’s 1958 drama is a simply ghastly, uber-treacly remake of 1946’s Sentimental Journey (with John Payne and Maureen O’Hara), this time with the wrong stars in Robert Stack and Lauren Bacall as physicist Bill Beck […]

Nov, 25

Nothing But the Night ** (1973, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Georgia Brown, Keith Barron) – Classic Movie Review 5946

The grand team of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing head director Peter Sasdy’s reasonably spooky 1973 British chiller, set in an orphanage where the trustees are being bumped off by children possessed by murderous creatures. […]

Aug, 20

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