Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "World War One"

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The Woman I Love [The Woman Between] ** (1937, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward, Colin Clive) – Classic Movie Review 11,928

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 romantic triangle drama The Woman I Love [The Woman Between] stars Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward and Colin Clive. During World War One, French fighter pilot Lieutenant Claude Maury (Muni) and […]

Feb, 12

Hotel Imperial *** (1927, Pola Negri, James Hall, George Siegmann) – Classic Movie Review 10,958

‘Pola Negri loving, hating, fighting, running the gamut of every conceivable human emotion. Never has she given such full play to her genius.’ Director Mauritz Stiller’s 1927 American silent film Hotel Imperial is an impressive […]

Feb, 24

Landru [Bluebeard] **** (1963, Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef, Juliette Mayniel, Stéphane Audran, Catherine Rouvel) – Classic Movie Review 10,324

A well-cast Charles Denner stars as the creepy charmer Henri Désiré Landru, in director Claude Chabrol’s 1963 real-life period serial killer thriller Landru [Bluebeard], set in France during World War One. Family man Landru, a […]

Sep, 18

Good Morning Babylon [Good Morning Babilonia] **** (1987, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 9744

Charles Dance steals the 1987 show Good Morning Babylon as movie pioneer director D W Griffith in a charming homage to silent film-making from Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, the Italian heavyweight directors responsible for […]

May, 10

A Man from Wyoming * (1930, Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 8236

‘Tender romance mid the thrills of fighting! No-Man’s land and the night life on the gay, war-time Riviera.’ The young Gary Cooper (already 29) stars in director Rowland V Lee’s 1930 romantic war drama A […]

Mar, 13

They Shall Not Grow Old **** (2018, director Peter Jackson) – Movie Review

Director Peter Jackson’s magnificent and beautiful World War One documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) is uniquely informative, evocative, moving and heart-rending, as well as a brilliant technical achievement in its incredible 3D colour […]

Jan, 10

What Price Glory? *** (1926, (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores del Rio) – Classic Movie Review 7919

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1926 silent comedy-drama war film classic What Price Glory? (based on a 1924 long-running Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings) stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe as Captain Flagg and […]

Dec, 18

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