Derek Winnert

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Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] ** (1989, Brandon Lee, Debi A Monahan, Ernest Borgnine, Werner Pochath) – Classic Movie Review 11,339

Director Beau J Davis’s low-budget US/ German/ S African 1989 Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] is Brandon Lee’s second credited film, in which he plays US special agent Michael Gold, a mercenary loner and expert […]

Jun, 24

Calling Dr Kildare *** (1939, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Lana Turner, Samuel S Hinds, Laraine Day, Emma Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 11,301

Lew Ayres’s Dr Kildare falls for Lana Turner! Director Harold S Bucquet’s 1939 black and white medical drama Calling Dr Kildare is the second in MGM’s long-running series, with nice Lew Ayres back as Dr […]

Jun, 13

Kim **** (1950, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 11,171

MGM’s 1950 Technicolor film Kim is a spectacular adventure classic based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel about an orphan boy (Dean Stockwell), recruited as a spy by the British for derring-do in 1880s India. Director Victor […]

May, 06

The Firefly *** (1937, Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 11,153

Now you don’t get many singing spies: ‘Jeanette MacDonald Is The Luminous Singing Spy!’…  Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1937 black and white MGM musical The Firefly stars Jeanette MacDonald, who takes a rest from her […]

Apr, 30

One Night in Lisbon *** (1941, Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Edmund Gwenn, Billie Burke, John Loder, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 11,097

’36 hours of love!…’ Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white screwball comedy One Night in Lisbon is the welcome and enjoyable if uninspired fourth and penultimate paring of the delightful Madeleine […]

Apr, 14

Hotel Imperial ** (1939, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J Carrol Naish, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 10,942

‘TRAPPED BY LOVE IN THE MAD MAELSTROM OF WAR! ‘ Director Robert Florey’s 1939 drama Hotel Imperial stars Italian actress Isa Miranda as Anna Warschawska, a dancer from the Balkans who masquerades as a chambermaid […]

Feb, 20

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

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