Derek Winnert

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Carmen **** (1983, Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez) – Classic Movie Review 9834

Antonio Gades (as the choreographer Antonio and the film’s real choreographer) and sizzling Laura del Sol (as the main dancer Carmen) kick up a storm in director Carlos Saura’s 1983 Spanish dance film Carmen. In […]

May, 28

Big Jim McLain (1952, John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 9833

Director Edward Ludwig’s 1952 thriller Big Jim McLain is McCarthyite rightist propaganda from John Wayne’s production company, with John Wayne and James Arness as US government agents – House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain […]

May, 28

Good Sam * (1948, Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins) – Classic Movie Review 9743

Director Leo McCarey’s 1948 romantic comedy drama Good Sam stars Gary Cooper as the Good Sam(aritan) Clayton of the title, who helps too many people and ends up penniless, unable to help his own family, […]

May, 10

Mister 880 **** (1950, Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 9691

Burt Lancaster stars as recently appointed FBI agent Steve Buchanan who teams with attractive UN secretary–translator Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire) to investigate aged New Yorker William ‘Skipper’ Miller, aka fake-dollar-bill fraudster Mister 880 (Edmund Gwenn), […]

Apr, 30

Johnny Reno ** (1966, Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9686

Director R G Springsteen’s humble 1966 American Western film Johnny Reno stars Dana Andrews, Jane Russell and Lon Chaney Jr. Made by A C Lyles Productions and released by Paramount Pictures, it is produced by […]

Apr, 28

Aunt Clara *** (1954, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, A E Matthews, Fay Compton, Nigel Stock, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 9674

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1954 Ealing Studios-style British comedy Aunt Clara stars Margaret Rutherford as the straight-laced old treasure Aunt Clara Hilton, who inherits a pub, five greyhounds and a brothel from her rich uncle. She […]

Apr, 24

Smiley *** (1956, Colin Petersen, Ralph Richardson, John McCallum, Chips Rafferty) – Classic Movie Review 9,659

Colin Petersen, aged nine, stars as cheeky Smiley Greevins in the entertaining 1956 comedy drama film Smiley. He later became a drummer and an equal partner in the Bee Gees. Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1956 comedy […]

Apr, 21

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