Derek Winnert

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Aces High ** (1976, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson, Ray Milland, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 10,065

Director Jack Gold’s worthy 1976 reworked film version of the old R C Sherriff play (and 1930 film) Journey’s End is now titled Aces High and transferred to the British air war against the Germans. […]

Jul, 20

Stranger in the House ** (1967, James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, Bobby Darin) – Classic Movie Review 10,056

Writer-director Pierre Rouve’s 1967 neo noir crime drama Stranger in the House is adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, is produced by Anatole de Grunwald, and stars James Mason as washed-up alcoholic lawyer John […]

Jul, 19

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Huckleberry Finn] *** (1960, Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore) – Classic Movie Review 10,009

MGM toast the 75th anniversary of the American publication of Mark Twain’s 1884 classic book with Michael Curtiz’s nimble 1960 film version The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was first published […]

Jul, 06

Temptation *** (1946, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas) Classic Movie Review 9918

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 black and white film noir thriller Temptation stars Merle Oberon as bored housewife Ruby, an 1890s London shady lady who moves to Egypt and swaps her dull archaeologist husband Nigel Armine […]

Jun, 16

You’re Telling Me! *** (1934, W C Fields, Joan Marsh, Larry ‘Buster’ Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Kathleen Howard, Louise Carter) – Classic Movie Review 9780

Director Erle C Kenton’s 1934 comedy You’re Telling Me! stars W C Fields as Mr Sam Brisbee, an optician despised in his small town, particularly by his wife Bessie/ or Abigail (Louise Carter), for his […]

May, 17

So Big ** (1953, Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Richard Beymer, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 9775

Director Robert Wise’s 1953 romantic drama So Big, the desultory remake of the 1932 semi-classic So Big, based on the Pulitizer Prize novel by Edna Ferber, is thin, soapy and over-extended. The cast is good […]

May, 16

Three for the Show *** (1955, Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 9641

Columbia Pictures remade 1940’s Too Many Husbands as director H C Potter’s lively and carefree but thin 1955 Technicolor, CinemaScope musical Three for the Show. Betty Grable stars as Julie Lowndes, the showgal who finds […]

Apr, 16

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