Derek Winnert

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The Big Trees *** (1952, Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr, Roy Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 7509

Director Felix E Feist’s 1952 adventure movie The Big Trees stars Kirk Douglas as timber baron John Fallon, the money-grabbing lumberman out to chop down California’s beautiful  giant sequoia redwood trees, in this ecologically sound […]

Aug, 28

It’s a Gift ***** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol) – Classic Movie Review 7396

In perhaps his finest comedy, a deliciously on-form W C Fields plays a henpecked New Jersey general store owner called Harold Bissonette, who is having a hard time, what with Baby Dunk (Baby LeRoy), the annoying […]

Aug, 04

I Never Sang for My Father **** (1970, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 7210

Producer-director Gilbert Cates turns a 1964 flop play by Robert Anderson into a showcase for a group of powerhouse performances in his 1970 drama I Never Sang for My Father. It is a guarantee of […]

Jun, 23

They Knew What They Wanted ** (1940, Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey Sr, Frank Fay, Karl Malden, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 6753

A 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sidney Howard, beautiful Carole Lombard and the great Charles Laughton come together and produce top director Garson Kanin’s interesting if less than awe-inspiring 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie. Laughton plays […]

Mar, 01

Beverly Hills Cop III ** (1994, Eddie Murphy, Hector Elizondo, Judge Reinhold, John Saxon, Bronson Pinchot, Theresa Randle, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 6651

The scrappy 1994 third Beverly Hills Cop movie is by turns off-puttingly violent and stupidly slapstick, though it is helped along with capable, slick direction from John Landis and the thinly appealing, lightly professional performances. […]

Feb, 04

Riot in Cell Block 11 **** (1954, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 5657

Director Don Siegel’s masterly 1954 prison drama is low on budget but high on social concern and urgency as a plea for reform of the American prison system and conditions in US jails. It is […]

Jun, 24

Baywatch * (2017, Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Kelly Rohrbach, Alexandra Daddario) – Movie Review

Dwayne Johnson stars as hard-man lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, who clashes with brash, conceited new beach boy recruit Matt Brody (Zac Efron). But then together they uncover a criminal plot by drugs villainess Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra). Yes […]

May, 23

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