Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "airplane"

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Son of Lassie *** (1945, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn, Leon Ames, Fay Helm, Nils Asther, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4647

Director S Sylvan Simon’s sentimental but pleasing 1945 children’s adventure finds its beating heart in Laddie, the son of Lassie, who joins Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford) as a stowaway in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during […]

Nov, 13

Von Richthofen and Brown [The Red Baron] **** (1971, John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3,897

Roger Corman’s highly entertaining 1971 comic-strip-style period action adventure film Von Richthofen and Brown [The Red Baron] stars John Phillip Law and Don Stroud in a tale of World War One dogfights. Director Roger Corman’s […]

Jun, 21

Airport **** (1970, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Barry Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3432

Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]

Mar, 01

Crack-Up *** (1936, Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan, Thomas Beck, Kay Linaker) – Classic Movie Review 3.322

Director Malcolm St Clair’s tense and entertaining 1936 espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Peter Lorre as Colonel Gimpy, a ruthless spy boss whose organisation of dastardly foreign spies is trying to get its hands on the […]

Feb, 04

Flying Down to Rio **** (1933, Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2960

Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]

Oct, 05

The Wedding Ringer ** (2015, Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) – Movie Review

Kevin Hart and Josh Gad have their work cut out to make this bromance wedding comedy funny. It would like to be The Hangover crossed with Wedding Crashers, but those prove tough acts to follow. Hart plays […]

Feb, 20

Die Hard 2 **** (1990, Bruce Willis, William Atherton, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler) – Classic Movie Review 1682

Bruce Willis makes a very welcome return as New York cop John McClane for a second scoop of blockbuster action. And this time his mission is to thwart a military operation by rogue military officials […]

Sep, 16

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