Derek Winnert

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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? ** (1971, Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7481

Director Ulu Grosbard’s 1971 comedy Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? earned an Oscar nomination for Barbara Harris as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. It was […]

Aug, 22

Tribute to a Bad Man *** (1956, James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Irene Papas, Stephen McNally, Vic Morrow, Royal Dano, Lee Van Cleef) – Classic Movie Review 7437

Director Robert Wise’s 1956 Western Tribute to a Bad Man stars James Cagney, who replaces the originally cast Spencer Tracy (who walked out after falling out with director Wise) as Jeremy Rodock, a vicious horse […]

Aug, 12

Major Barbara **** (1941, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Marie Lohr, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 7428

Major Barbara is the pick of producer-director Gabriel Pascal’s attempts to bring George Bernard Shaw to the movies, with Wendy Hiller starring nobly as the Salvation Army girl Major Barbara Undershaft, who quits when they […]

Aug, 11

The Burning Hills ** (1956, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman, Claude Akins, Ray Teal, Frank Puglia) – Classic Movie Review 7272

Director Stuart Heisler’s 1956 The Burning Hills stars Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood (with weird Mexican accent) as Trace Jordan and Maria-Christina Colton, a pair of young Western lovers fighting off the murdering bad guys who killed […]

Jul, 09

The Girl from Missouri **** (1934, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7196

Anita Loos from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes helps to provide the sparkling, witty original screenplay (with John Emerson) for director Jack Conway’s entertaining Jean Harlow 1934 screwball comedy film vehicle The Girl from Missouri about Eadie Chapman, […]

Jun, 20

Fear Strikes Out *** (1957, Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7,140

The 1957 drama film Fear Strikes Out stars young Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, a shy, fearful youth plunged into mental turmoil over his father (Karl Malden)’s overpowering need to make him a baseball player. […]

Jun, 09

The Magnet **** (1950, Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson, Thora Hird, Wylie Watson) – Classic Movie Review 7081

Director Charles Frend’s 1950 British film is an unpretentious, amusing and well-observed Ealing Studios comedy about a naughty 11-year-old boy called Johnny Brent (William Fox, now James Fox), who lands in a lot of bother […]

May, 22

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