Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "based on novel"

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Once a Jolly Swagman *** (1949, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Thora Hird, Moira Lister, Sidney James, James Hayter, Cyril Cusack, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 10,712

Director Jack Lee’s 1949 black and white British film Once a Jolly Swagman [Maniacs on Wheels] stars the young Dirk Bogarde as Bill Fox, a jolly 1930s factory worker who quits his job to become […]

Dec, 27

Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] *** (1956, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Giani Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 10,684

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]

Dec, 19

Bellman and True *** (1987, Bernard Hill, Derek Newark, Richard Hope, Kieran O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 10,644

Security Sergeant: ‘It’s official – it’s a fuck-up.’ Director Richard Loncraine’s 1987 British crime thriller Bellman and True showcases a smashing performance by a totally credible Bernard Hill as Hiller, a computer-alarms system expert burglar […]

Dec, 10

The Far Horizons ** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale) – Classic Movie Review 10,632

Director Rudolph Maté’s rousing 1955 historical romantic Western adventure The Far Horizons is based on the 1943 novel Sacajawea of the Shoshones by Della Gould Emmons, and stars Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed and Barbara Hale. […]

Dec, 05

Beau Sabreur (1928, Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery Sr, William Powell, Roscoe Karn) – Classic Movie Review 10,595

In this 1928 Paramount silent version of Percival Christopher Wren’s famous story Beau Sabreur, young Gary Cooper stars as Beau, the French officer who is despatched by his uncle-general (Frank Reicher) to fight the Riffs […]

Nov, 28

Arrowhead *** (1953, Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 10,591

Forceful acting from Charlton Heston, as a dashing but racist US Cavalry Chief of Scouts called Ed Bannon, and Jack Palance, as Toriano, the Apache chief he clashes with, enlivens writer-director Charles Marquis Warren’s rugged, […]

Nov, 27

Gun Glory *** (1957, Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland) – Classic Movie Review 10,556

After Rhonda Fleming had the female lead in John Sturges’s classic Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), she supported Stewart Granger in a much lesser, though still acceptable item, Gun Glory at MGM, a 1957 […]

Nov, 17

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