Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "tycoon"

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Love & Money ** (1981, Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 11,677

Writer-producer-director James Toback’s 1981 thriller Love & Money stars Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski and Armand Assante. That great eccentric Klaus Kinski stars as a pop-eyed tycoon, Frederic Stockheinz, who draws LA bank employee […]

Oct, 25

The Night of January 16th ** (1941, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,797

Director William Clemens’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white mystery crime drama B-movie The Night of January 16th stars Ellen Drew as secretary Kit Lane who is actually the brunt of an embezzlement scam involving […]

Jan, 16

The Devil and Miss Jones **** (1941, Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S Z Sakall, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 10,258

Director Sam Wood’s engaging, funny, charming 1941 vintage comedy The Devil and Miss Jones stars Jean Arthur as Miss Mary Jones, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn, who is good fun as the tycoon John P […]

Sep, 02

If I Had a Million **** (1932, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W C Fields, George Raft, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7,390

The 1932 comedy film If I Had a Million has a simple, well executed idea: a dying eccentric millionaire decides to give a million dollars to eight people picked at random from the phone book to […]

Aug, 02

Tycoon ** (1947, John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, James Gleason, Judith Anderson, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6992

Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]

May, 03

The Carpetbaggers *** (1964, George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd, Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 6285

Director Edward Dmytryk skillfully turns Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel into its exact movie equivalent – a compulsively trashy epic film with an escapist Hollywood story and glossy cardboard characters. The 1964 tells a romantic drama […]

Nov, 22

Fear Is the Key *** (1972, Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ray McAnally, Ben Kingsley) – Classic Movie Review 6,257

Barry Newman stars in Fear Is the Key as the hard-bitten adventurer John Talbot, who sets about plotting an elaborate scheme to avenge the deaths of his wife and child in a plane crash. Alistair […]

Nov, 15

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