Derek Winnert

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Cairo *** (1942, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen, Grant Mitchell, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dooley Wilson, Dennis Hoey, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 8205

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]

Mar, 06

The Man in the Sky [Decision Against Time] ** (1957, Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Walter Fitzgerald, Eddie Byrne, Lionel Jeffries, Donald Pleasence, Jeremy Bodkin) – Classic Movie Review 7993

Director Charles Crichton’s 1957 black and white drama The Man in the Sky [Decision Against Time] is Boys’ Own adventure stuff with a brave – some might even say foolhardy – test pilot John Mitchell (Jack […]

Jan, 08

They Got Me Covered *** (1943, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lenore Aubert, Donald MacBride, Walter Catlett, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 7860

It’s Bob Hope versus the Nazis in director David Butler’s amusing, little-known 1943 wartime Washington spy comedy thriller They Got Me Covered about a Gestapo espionage ring planning sabotage. It is a surprise subject for […]

Dec, 01

Storm in a Teacup **** (1937, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7807

Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]

Nov, 19

A Private War *** (2018, Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Greg Wise) – Movie Review

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary film-maker Matthew Heineman’s first feature film as director, A Private War (2018), is an honourable toast to old-style newspaper journalism, which is fast disappearing along with books, and its backbone, the old-style reporters who […]

Oct, 20

20,000 Years in Sing Sing *** (1932, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 7440

Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]

Aug, 13

Comrade X *** (1940, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7411

Hedy Lamarr stars as a beautiful Communist Moscow train driver, who is romanced by American reporter Clark Gable in Soviet Moscow, in MGM’s 1940 film Comrade X. This is much pleasure, as well as quite […]

Aug, 07

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