Derek Winnert

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Rhodes of Africa ** (1936, Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Peggy Ashcroft) – Classic Movie Review 10,529

Director Berthold Viertel’s 1936 British black and white biopic Rhodes of Africa [Rhodes] is a portrait of Cecil Rhodes, diamond and gold miner, British Empire builder and the father of Rhodesia, made at the time […]

Nov, 11

Love Happy *** (1949, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Eric Blore, Ilona Massey, Marilyn Monroe, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 9636

Harpo Marx takes centre stage for the Marx Brothers’ final movie together about mounting a Broadway show and foiling jewel thieves, in director David Miller’s 1949 black and white wisecracking comedy Love Happy [Kleptomaniacs]. Alas, there […]

Apr, 14

Istanbul ** (1957, Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher, Leif Erickson, Martin Benson, Peggy Knudsen) – Classic Movie Review 7271

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1957 romantic espionage adventure crime drama Istanbul is a rehash of 1947’s Singapore, this time (obviously) relocated to Istanbul and starring Errol Flynn as pilot adventurer James Brennan deported for diamond smuggling but returning […]

Jul, 09

The MacKintosh Man *** (1973, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6,037

Paul Newman stars as an undercover government agent hired to trap a spying British Member of Parliament (James Mason), in director John Huston’s quick-paced 1973 Cold War spy thriller film The MacKintosh Man. Paul Newman […]

Sep, 23

Ladies in Retirement **** (1941, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Isobel Elsom, Edith Barrett, Emma Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4718

Isobel Elsom plays Mrs Leonora Fiske, a wealthy ex-actress, who lives at an isolated house in the East Anglia marshlands in the 1880s with just her younger housekeeper Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino). When Ellen’s two older, […]

Nov, 28

Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714

Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]

Jul, 17

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