Derek Winnert

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A Yank in the RAF ** (1941, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,672

Director Henry King’s 1941 American black-and-white action adventure drama romantic musical war film A Yank in the RAF stars Tyrone Power, Betty Grable and John Sutton. It was sold as a light-hearted look at war rather […]

Dec, 16

Appointment in London *** (1953, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 10,342

Director Philip Leacock’s just above-par 1952 story of a wartime bomber mission Appointment in London stars Dirk Bogarde as war-shocked, insubordinate British officer Wing Commander Tim Mason, who takes off in 1943 on a risky […]

Sep, 23

The Purple Heart *** (1944, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8886

That noble director of war movies Lewis Milestone gave us All Quiet On The Western Front, A Walk In The Sun, Halls of Montezuma and also this World War Two look at the plight of […]

Sep, 08

Catch-22 **** (Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 7941

Buck Henry’s screenplay to bring to the screen the complex Joseph Heller satirical novel Catch-22 about the absurdities of life in an American wartime Air Force camp is not perfect. But it is intelligent, dark […]

Dec, 23

Fuzz *** (1972, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner) – Classic Movie Review 7929

Director Richard A Colla’s rumbustious 1972 crime action comedy Fuzz is based on a novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) and stars Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner and Raquel Welch. As Boston […]

Dec, 20

Battle of Britain ** (1969, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Kenneth More, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 7706

Director Guy Hamilton’s 1969 Battle of Britain is a well-meaning and respectful but insufficiently exciting all-star extravaganza made to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1940 aerial attack on England. However this historical re-enactment is […]

Oct, 27

Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6670

Director Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 Korean War movie stars his regular actor Rock Hudson, who impresses in a heavyweight role as Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life World War Two bomber pilot and flying chaplain […]

Feb, 10

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