Derek Winnert

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It Happens Every Spring **** (1949, Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 11,947

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1949 American baseball comedy film It Happens Every Spring stars Ray Milland as a college chemistry professor who accidentally develops a wonder chemical that is repelled by wood, after a baseball comes through […]

Feb, 21

The Babe Ruth Story (1948, William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, William Frawley, Robert Ellis, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 11,605

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1948 baseball film biography The Babe Ruth Story stars William Bendix as the famed New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, aka ‘The Sultan of Swat’, Claire Trevor as his wife Claire, Sam Levene […]

Sep, 27

Three Wishes ** (1995, Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy) – Classic Movie Review 10,474

‘If you really believe, magic will find you’. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1995 Three Wishes is a soft-centred, corny feel-good fantasy movie that stars Patrick Swayze as injured vagrant Jack McCloud being invited to move in […]

Oct, 28

The Kid from Left Field ** (1953, Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 9778

Director Harmon Jones’s 1953 black and white 20th Century Fox sports comedy The Kid from Left Field stars Dan Dailey as Larry ‘Pop’ Cooper, a former baseball player who ends up as a snack salesman […]

May, 16

BASEketball *** (1998, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar) – Classic Movie Review 9689

The 1998 movie BASEketball is an agreeably amusingly silly sports comedy, made by the director of The Naked Gun (David Zucker). TV’s South Park stars Trey Parker and Matt Stone are funny as Milwaukee loser […]

Apr, 30

The Winning Team ** (1952, Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 9580

Yes, Doris Day and Ronald Reagan made a film together – director Lewis Seiler’s 1952 drama The Winning Team, a careful Warner Bros biopic of Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Nebraska phone engineer who hit the […]

Mar, 31

Bang the Drum Slowly **** (1973, Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia) – Classic Movie Review 9548

Director John D Hancock’s 1973 sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly stars young Robert De Niro giving a moving performance as mentally simple Bruce the catcher, a New York baseball player dying of Hodgkin’s disease, who […]

Mar, 23

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