Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Ivan the Terrible, Part I [Ivan Groznyy] **** (1944, Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman) – Classic Movie Review 7472

The last work of Russia’s most acclaimed revolutionary director Sergei M Eisenstein was intended as a trilogy but only two parts were completed. Filming stopped after Part II was banned, but Part III’s concept is […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Strike [Stachka] **** (1925, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov) – Classic Movie Review 7471

After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Alexander Nevsky [Aleksandr Nevskiy] **** (1938, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov) – Classic Movie Review 7470

The great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein is on top, brilliant form in this remarkable 1938 Soviet historical epic (set in 1242) that climaxes in Prince Alexander Nevsky (Nikolay Cherkasov), the saint and soldier of […]

Aug, 19

A Message to Garcia *** (1936, Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Enrique Acosta, Alan Hale Sr, Herbert Mundin, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 7469

Director George Marshall’s 1936 A Message to Garcia tells an imaginary tale based on a real-life incident in which Lieutenant Andrew S Rowan (John Boles) takes US President William McKinley’s message of support to General Garcia […]

Aug, 19

Metropolitan *** (1935, Lawrence Tibbett, Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 7468

Director Richard Boleslawski’s enjoyable 1935 musical romantic drama Metropolitan is mainly memorable for the marvellous baritone singing of Lawrence Tibbett, who plays a young singer desperate for his big break. Although Tibbett shows that he […]

Aug, 19

The Circle *** (1925, Eleanor Boardman, Creighton Hale, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B Francis, Eugenie Besserer, George Fawcett, Otto Hoffman, Joan Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7467

Director Frank Borzage brings W Somerset Maugham’s 1921 stage hit The Circle to the screen with some great moments between Eleanor Boardman as Elizabeth Cheney and Creighton Hale as Arnold Cheney in this beautifully shot […]

Aug, 19

Hangman’s House *** (1928, Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, Larry Kent, Earle Fox, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7466

John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]

Aug, 18

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