Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Freud **** (1962, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 7186

A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]

Jun, 17 · in Uncategorized

Reflections in a Golden Eye *** (1967, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 7185

Director John Huston’s salacious and compulsive but awkward 1967 high heat Deep South melodrama Reflections in a Golden Eye is based on the Carson McCullers novel and boasts the right cast on compelling form, particularly […]

Jun, 17 · in Uncategorized

Big Brown Eyes **** (1936, Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7184

Co-writer/ director Raoul Walsh’s 1936 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy mystery thriller Big Brown Eyes effectively teams charismatic stars Cary Grant and Joan Bennett. Police detective sergeant Danny Barr (Grant) and his girlfriend, wacky manicurist-reporter […]

Jun, 17

Wedding Present *** (1936, Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7183

Director Richard Wallace’s 1936 amusing Paramount Pictures black and white media screwball comedy Wedding Present re-teams charismatic stars Cary Grant and Joan Bennett (fresh from Big Brown Eyes) as romancing reporters in a The Front Page-style […]

Jun, 17

When You’re in Love *** (1937, Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 7182

Writer-director Robert Riskin’s 1937 black and white romance When You’re In Love stars opera star Grace Moore as Louise Fuller, an Australian diva who weds artist Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) for her American visa when they […]

Jun, 17

Suzy **** (1936, Jean Harlow, Cary Grant, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 7181

Jean Harlow, Cary Grant and Franchot Tone head the splendid cast who sparkle and spark up director George Fitzmaurice’s undeservedly neglected 1936 black and white vintage movie Suzy. Grant stars as World War One French aviator […]

Jun, 17

The Toast of New York *** (1937, Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 7180

Director Rowland V Lee’s ambitious 1937 RKO Radio Pictures black and white comedy drama tackles the lively subject of 19th-century tycoonery in a fairy tale poor-man-makes-good biopic of Wall Street’s Jim Fisk – not a name on […]

Jun, 17

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