Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

We Who Are Young ** (1940, Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell, Henry Armetta) – Classic Movie Review 6716

Lana Turner and John Shelton star as young office workers Margy and Bill, who break the rules of the firm that they both work for by secretly marrying, and then get into financial difficulty when […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

Keep Your Powder Dry * (1945, Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Johnson, Natalie Schafer, June Lockhart, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 6715

‘Gals IN UNIFORM…IN ACTION…IN LOVE! They’re strictly G.I.’ Director Edward Buzzell’s well-meaning but seemingly hastily concocted 1945 movie tells the story of some plucky American women who do their bit for the war effort after […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

Battleground **** (1949, Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Marshall Thompson, Scotty Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 6714

Director William Wellman’s important and distinguished, if necessarily grim 1949 iconic war movie won Oscars for its screenplay by Robert Pirosh, who was involved in the actual Battle of the Bulge, and for Paul C […]

Feb, 21

The Next Voice You Hear… ** (1950, James Whitmore, Nancy Reagan, Gary Gray) – Classic Movie Review 6713

In director William A Wellman’s comforting, unusual 1950 drama The Next Voice You Hear…, the voice of God is broadcast on the radio across the globe over a week, and it has a deep effect […]

Feb, 20

Adventure ** (1945, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6,712

MGM’s 1945 big-budget, mismatched relationship drama film Adventure is a disappointing movie with clichés galore and Clark Gable and Greer Garson obliged to say some virtually unspeakable lines in a weak screenplay. ‘Gable’s back and […]

Feb, 20

Across the Wide Missouri ** (1951, Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 6711

Director William A Wellman’s 1951 Western stars Clark Gable as pioneering beaver trapper Flint Mitchell, who cynically marries Kamiah (Maria Elena Marques), a young Native American woman, just to gain permission to hunt in her people’s […]

Feb, 19

Man of the World ** (1931, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 6710

In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]

Feb, 19

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