Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Dakota ** (1945, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6744

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s robustly performed, competently handled but unfocused and unexciting 1945 Republic studios Western stars John Wayne, Vera [Hruba] Ralston and Walter Brennan. John Wayne stars as sagebrush drifter John Devlin, who falls for […]

Feb, 27 · in Articles

White Hunter Black Heart *** (1990, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell) – Classic Movie Review 6743

In his first star character role, aged 60, Clint Eastwood achieves a bravura sustained impersonation of wayward  legendary movie director John Huston who in 1950 sets out, distracted and obsessive, on a quest to shoot […]

Feb, 27 · in Uncategorized

Vigil in the Night *** (1940, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 6,742

The 1940 romantic drama film Vigil in the Night stars screen comedienne Carole Lombard, who is outstanding in a serious role as Anne Lee, a devoted young nurse in an English hospital. Director George Stevens’s […]

Feb, 26

Daisy Kenyon *** (1947, Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Ruth Warrick) – Classic Movie Review 6741

Joan Crawford has a great, overwrought time in 20th Century Fox’s 1947 romantic-drama film Daisy Kenyon, a heated melodramatic story of a romantic triangle. The starry cast of Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Ruth […]

Feb, 26

Vigilante Force *** (1976, Kris Kristofferson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Principal, Bernadette Peters, Brad Dexter, Judson Prat) – Classic Movie Review 6740

The Seventies low-budget American satirical action film Vigilante Force (1976) is written and directed by George Armitage, who says producer Gene Corman came to him with just the title and he did the rest. ‘It was a good shoot, […]

Feb, 26

Hooper *** (1978, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, John Marley, James Best, Adam West, Robert Klein) – Classic Movie Review 6739

Director Hal Needham’s amiable 1978 action adventure comedy is a very typical Seventies vehicle for Burt Reynolds, re-teamed with his Smokey and the Bandit (1977) co-star Sally Field and its director Needham (a former Hollywood stuntman). […]

Feb, 26

Damnation Alley * (1977, Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley, Kip Niven) – Classic Movie Review 6738

Director Jack Smight’s ambitious but trashy 1977 sci-fi thriller is based on the intriguing cult novel by Roger Zalazny. Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard star as young hero Tanner and army major Denton, who lead […]

Feb, 26

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