Derek Winnert

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Desert Sands ** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Ron Randell, John Smith, Keith Larsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,637

Director Lesley Selander’s 1955 programmer French Foreign Legion adventure film Desert Sands is produced by Bel-Air Productions and released by United Artists. It is foolish but nevertheless some fun as it is quite quirky and […]

Dec, 06

Million Dollar Legs **** (1932, W C Fields, Jack Oakie, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Ben Turpin) – Classic Movie Review 10,451

‘Klopstokia… a far away country – Chief Exports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Imports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Inhabitants… Goats and Nuts.’ Director Edward F Cline’s 1932 Million Dollar Legs stars the irrepressible and […]

Oct, 22

The Woman on the Beach *** (1947, Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 10,328

The 1947 film The Woman on the Beach is a hothouse film noir romantic drama from Jean Renoir with a strange trio of characters embroiled in a love triangle – older blind artist Tod (Charles […]

Sep, 19

Signpost to Murder ** (1964, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 10,235

Director George Englund’s 1964 film Signpost to Murder stars Stuart Whitman in this hard-to-believe, preposterously twisting B-movie black and white crime mystery thriller relic as Alex Forrester, an escaped wife-murderer psychopath who finds a hiding […]

Aug, 28

A Rage in Harlem *** (1991, Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 9980

Director Bill Duke’s 1991 neo noir thriller A Rage in Harlem is based on Chester Himes’s novel and stars Forest Whitaker as clumsy but nice Harlem hero Jackson, who meets and falls for sassy and […]

Jun, 29

We Were Dancing ** (1942, Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 9962

Norma Shearer rejected starring in Mrs Miniver while making director Robert Z Leonard’s 1942 featherweight black and white drawing room comedy We Were Dancing, loosely based on one of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 short […]

Jun, 26

Lady Killer *** (1933, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 9621

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white crime comedy Lady Killer stars James Cagney as gangster Dan Quigley, who is on the run from the law but he washes up in the […]

Apr, 09

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