Derek Winnert

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Convoy **** (1940, Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 11,200

Director Pen Tennyson’s 1940 British Ealing Studios black and white flag-waving war film Convoy is a suitably laid-back, grace-under-fire portrayal of everyday World War Two seafaring existence. It is his third and last film. But […]

May, 12

Fortunes of Captain Blood ** (1950, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 9376

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 swashbuckling adventure film Fortunes of Captain Blood is an acceptably humble adventure, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, though the routine script and direction, and the cheap-looking Columbia Pictures production […]

Feb, 13

The Sea Chase *** (1955, John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness, Dick Davalos, John Qualen, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 7802

Director John Farrow’s 1955 wartime action adventure The Sea Chase has an extraordinary piece of casting in John Wayne playing Captain Karl Erlich, the anti-Nazi German captain of a freighter, anxious to set out from Sydney […]

Nov, 18

Captain Horatio Hornblower RN *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Terence Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 4808

Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]

Dec, 23

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