Derek Winnert

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Love Happy *** (1949, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Eric Blore, Ilona Massey, Marilyn Monroe, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 9636

Harpo Marx takes centre stage for the Marx Brothers’ final movie together about mounting a Broadway show and foiling jewel thieves, in director David Miller’s 1949 black and white wisecracking comedy Love Happy [Kleptomaniacs]. Alas, there […]

Apr, 14

The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] **** (1939, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee, Alan Napier, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 9532

Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]

Mar, 20

All My Sons *** (1948, Edward G Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Howard Duff, Louisa Horton) – Classic Movie Review 9311

Director Irving Reis’s 1948 black and white drama All My Sons is based on Arthur Miller’s classic Tony Award-winning play and stars Edward G Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Howard Duff and Louisa Horton. It […]

Jan, 28

The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] *** (1954, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 9193

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]

Dec, 27

Les Girls *** (1957, Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Jacques Bergerac, Leslie Phillips, Henry Daniell, Patrick Macnee) – Classic Movie Review 9,021

George Cukor’s 1957 film Les Girls is an end-of-an-era event. Gene Kelly ended his MGM contract with this feisty, slick Cole Porter musical about a cabaret dance troupe (Kelly and Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor and […]

Oct, 27

Hoodlum Empire *** (1952, Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Claire Trevor, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler, John Russell, Gene Lockhart, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 8954

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s 1952 black and white film noir crime thriller Hoodlum Empire stars Brian Donlevy as upright, feisty Senator Bill Stephens, who battles nasty crime lord Nick Mansani (Luther Adler). John Russell plays Joe […]

Sep, 30

Canadian Pacific ** (1949, Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson, J Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 8950

Director Edwin L Marin’s solid, busy, sometimes impressive minor 1949 Western movie Canadian Pacific stars an ideal Randolph Scott as manly railroad surveyor Tom Andrews, who discovers the pass through the Rockies, fights Indians and […]

Sep, 29

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