Derek Winnert

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The Bachelor Party **** (1957, Don Murray, E G Marshall, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7,002

The admirable 1957 film The Bachelor Party is another classic Fifties TV drama by Paddy Chayefsky translated to the big screen, and in this one, five New York accountants are enjoying a stag night out […]

May, 05 · in Reviews

Back Street *** (1961, Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7,001

Susan Hayward stars in the glossy 1961 romantic drama film Back Street – the third and least Universal Pictures version of the Fannie Hurst soap opera novel – perhaps most notable for the frocks by […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

Back Street **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 7,000

The 1941 romantic drama film Back Street is arguably the best and most romantic of the three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman’s love for a married man. A guaranteed […]

May, 04

Back Street **** (1932, Irene Dunne, John Boles, Doris Lloyd, June Clyde) – Classic Movie Review 6,999

The 1932 romance Back Street is the first of three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s famous tearjerker novel about a woman (Irene Dunne)’s devoted love for a married man, a rich and handsome […]

May, 04

The Green Berets (1968, John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 6998

Inspired to make The Green Berets as a response to the growing anti-Vietnam War movement in the US, John Wayne delivers an offensive and inept warmongering, reactionary propaganda movie about two US army groups trained […]

May, 04

Bataan ** (1943, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 6997

Director Tay Garnett’s 1943 MGM stars-and-stripes-forever war film about the Japanese killing off a group of 13 GIs left guarding a vital bridge on the Bataan peninsula in 1942, is harrowing but largely unconvincing, even […]

May, 04

Flying Leathernecks ** (1951, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter, Don Taylor, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 6996

Director Nicholas Ray’s 1951 wartime action drama stars John Wayne and Robert Ryan as airborne commander Major Daniel Xavier Kirby and executive officer Captain Carl ‘Griff’ Griffin, who fight it out over whether Major Kirby […]

May, 04

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