Derek Winnert

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The Master of Ballantrae **** (1953, Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Furneaux, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 7279

Director William Keighley’s rousing British made 1953 Warner Bros movie The Master of Ballantrae stars Errol Flynn, who swashbuckles one more time in a totally rewritten and truncated version of the classic 1889 Robert Louis […]

Jul, 11

The Black Pirate **** (1926, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 7278

‘THE MOST ROMANTIC ROLE DOUG EVER HAD! A Picture of Extreme Beauty, Full of Action, Thrills and Love’.  In director Albert Parker’s 1926 vintage Douglas Fairbanks Sr silent movie The Black Pirate, the co-writer/ producer […]

Jul, 11

Against All Flags *** (1952, Errol Flynn, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Mildred Natwick, Robert Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 7277

‘He Ravished The Pirate Port Of Madagascar To Steal The Love Of Its Corsair Queen!’ Director George Sherman’s 1952 Against All Flags is one of Errol Flynn’s last pirate movies, with the on-form star still […]

Jul, 10

Typhoon *** (1940, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J Carrol Naish, Frank Reicher, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 6993

The admirable Dorothy Lamour stars again in director Louis King’s jolly, carefully contrived 1940 film vehicle for her as Dea, a beautiful island girl, cast away on the island from when she was a child, discovered […]

May, 03

Swiss Family Robinson **** (1960, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Janet Munro, Sussue Hayakawa, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6933

Director Ken Annakin’s 1960 young people’s adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson is an old-style treat, a happy, well-produced, and thoroughly entertaining Disney version of the shipwrecked family stranded on a desert island saga. Based on […]

Apr, 16

Ferry to Hong Kong ** (1959, Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser, Noel Purcell) – Classic Movie Review 6752

‘It was my nightmare film. It was a dreadful film, and everything was wrong with it, principally Welles.’ Hooray for Curt Jurgens [Curd Jürgens] and Orson Welles, who have a field day hamming it up as, […]

Feb, 28

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates ** (1956, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 6486

Director Norman Foster’s 1956 cinema feature is the second, less inspiring, of the two Walt Disney films stitched together from hour-long episodes of Fess Parker’s TV series of wholesome children’s outdoor Western adventures. This time […]

Dec, 29

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