Derek Winnert

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Mahogany ** (1975, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nina Foch, Beah Richards, Marisa Mell) – Classic Movie Review 10,044

Director Berry Gordy’s ridiculous but shamefully amusing 1975 romantic melodrama soap opera Mahogany stars Diana Ross as ambitious Chicago slum girl Tracy Chambers, nicknamed Mahogany (Diana Ross). Tracy goes to fashion school and becomes a […]

Jul, 16

Mister Johnson *** (1990, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi) – Classic Movie Review 10,014

In director Bruce Beresford’s affecting, warm-hearted, carefully made 1990 personal drama of a clash of cultures Mister Johnson, Pierce Brosnan gives a fine turn as Harry Rudbeck, the friend of Mister Johnson (Maynard Eziashi), a […]

Jul, 08

Mister Moses * (1965, Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox, Raymond St Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 10,012

‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]

Jul, 07

Tom Sawyer *** (1930, Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searle) – Classic Movie Review 10,010

Director John Cromwell’s 1930 early sound black and white comedy-drama film Tom Sawyer is the first sound version of the 1876 Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is pleasing though very […]

Jul, 07

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Huckleberry Finn] *** (1960, Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore) – Classic Movie Review 10,009

MGM toast the 75th anniversary of the American publication of Mark Twain’s 1884 classic book with Michael Curtiz’s nimble 1960 film version The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was first published […]

Jul, 06

Huckleberry Finn ** (1931, Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl) – Classic Movie Review 10,008

Director Norman Taurog’s 1931 family comedy Huckleberry Finn [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] is Paramount’s pleasing, now faded second version of the Mark Twain classic (after a 1919 silent with Lewis Sargent as Huckleberry Finn), […]

Jul, 06

Nora Prentiss *** (1947, Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 9991

Director Vincent Sherman’s 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nora Prentiss stars Ann Sheridan as Nora Prentiss, who is undoubtedly a swell girl, but would you fake your own death to be with her? […]

Jul, 02

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