Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "escape"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "escape".

Lonely Are the Brave **** (1962, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands) – Classic Movie Review 5148

Kirk Douglas triumphs in some of his best acting in director David Miller’s intense and brooding 1962 pursuit Western Lonely Are the Brave. Douglas gives a stalwart, practised and ultra-confident performance as Jack Burns, a […]

Mar, 13

San Quentin **½ (1937, Pat O’Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 5070

Humphrey Bogart is in trouble again in prison – San Quentin – in director Lloyd Bacon’s moderate 1937 film noir-style jail movie, in which he plays hardened inmate ‘Red’ Kennedy, sentenced to jail for robbery. Meanwhile […]

Feb, 27

The Pursuit of Happiness **½ (1971, Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein, Ruth White, E G Marshall, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 4943

‘I don’t want to run anymore…’ Michael Sarrazin stars in the 1971 crime drama The Pursuit of Happiness as a radical young college student, William Popper, who is jailed for his part in a road accident in […]

Jan, 26

Desperate Journey *** (1942, Errol Flynn, Alan Hale Sr, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Arthur Kennedy, Ronald Sinclair, Albert Bassermann, Sig Ruman) Classic Movie Review 4782

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1942 wartime action adventure movie tells an amusing shaggy dog story about five guys on a bombing mission shot down in Germany and trying to get back to England with vital information […]

Dec, 10

Uncertain Glory ** (1944, Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Douglass Dumbrille, Faye Emerson, Dennis Hoey) – Classic Movie Review 4755

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1944 spirit-raising (i e wartime propaganda) romantic adventure drama Uncertain Glory stars Errol Flynn as Jean Picard, a womanising French criminal who flees the guillotine during an air raid in World War Two […]

Dec, 08

Northern Pursuit *** (1943, Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 4753

Director Raoul Walsh’s propaganda 1943 adventure movie, set in Canada during the early years of World War Two, tells a good old-fashioned tale about an upright, dogged Mountie – the kind that always gets his man. […]

Dec, 05

THX 1138 ***½ (1971, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie) – Classic Movie Review 4740

Set in a George Orwell-style computer-controlled tomorrow of the 25th century, when people are known by letters and numbers and a man and a woman rebel against the rigidly controlled society, co-writer/ director George Lucas’s […]

Dec, 02

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.