Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "1930s"

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City Heat ** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco) – Classic Movie Review 7566

Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 period crime action comedy City Heat is a fairly damaging moment in the careers of Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood as both stars are forced to flounder desperately in a vacuum […]

Sep, 13

Beloved Infidel ** (1959, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7562

Famed, all-time-great American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s last, struggling drink-sodden years as a 1930s pre-World War Two Hollywood scriptwriter, and his torrid affair with witty young English columnist Sheilah Graham while his wife Zelda is in an […]

Sep, 12

Hollywood Party *** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Mickey Mouse, The Three Stooges) – Classic Movie Review 7449

Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]

Aug, 16

Walk on the Wild Side **** (1962, Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck) – Classic Movie Review 7064

Dove Linkhorn: ‘What are you doing here, Kit?’ Kitty Twist: ‘I run the candy concession.’ Despite the film’s original release public relations hysteria as really hot stuff, director Edward Dmytryk’s would-be shocking 1962 movie proves […]

May, 17

Love on the Dole **** (1941, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Geoffrey Hibbert, Frank Pettingell, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 7010

Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]

May, 06

Mudbound *** (2017, Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Dee Rees’s 2017 Mudbound is extremely worthy and exceptionally well made and finely acted. It is a serious-minded work that deals with an urgent topic of race hatred and is an Oscar contender […]

Jan, 25

The Carpetbaggers *** (1964, George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd, Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 6285

Director Edward Dmytryk skillfully turns Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel into its exact movie equivalent – a compulsively trashy epic film with an escapist Hollywood story and glossy cardboard characters. The 1964 tells a romantic drama […]

Nov, 22

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