Derek Winnert

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Distant Drums ***½ (1951, Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 4784

In 1840s Florida, Army Captain Quincy Wyatt (Cooper) and Lieutenant Richard Tufts (Richard Webb) free prisoners from the clutches of the Seminole Indians, and fight their way back to safety through Indian country in director […]

Dec, 11

Clambake * (1967, Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Bill Bixby, Gary Merrill, James Gregory) – Classic Movie Review 4301

Little known director Arthur H Nadel churns out a mediocre, very dull, truly tepid 1967 Elvis Presley musical which deservedly hit the lower half of cinema double bills. Shelley Fabares is the girl cursed with the […]

Sep, 04

Bad Boys II *** (2004, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Michael Shannon, Joe Pantoliano, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 4159

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence play bad cop, bad cop on the trail of evil Cuban drug lord ‘Johnny’ Tapia (Jordi Mollà) in director Michael Bay’s wisecracking, brutal, wayward but incredibly exciting 2004 action adventure sequel […]

Aug, 12

Sunshine State **½ (2002, Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Timothy Hutton, James McDaniel, Jane Alexander, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 3942

Angela Bassett and Edie Falco star as actress Desiree Perry and motel/café owner Marly Temple, two women who join forces to battle greedy Florida real estate developers, in writer-director John Sayles’s well-acted and intriguing but complicated, overlong […]

Jun, 28

Flipper ** (1996, Elijah Wood, Paul Hogan) – Classic Movie Review 3901

Director James B Clark’s 1963 children’s movie Flipper is remade by writer-director Alan Shapiro in 1996 with Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan to mild effect. Everything is brisk, businesslike and professional but just none too ecxiting. […]

Jun, 21

The Cocoanuts **** (1929, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, Kay Francis) – Classic Movie Review 3062

The Marx Brothers’ first sound film was made when they were four Marxes, with Groucho, Chico and Harpo joined along with Zeppo. An all-talking, all-singing musical comedy hit, it is filmed at the dawn of […]

Nov, 14

The Palm Beach Story ***** (1942, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 2923

Writer-director Preston Sturges’s marvellous 1942 American classic stars Claudette Colbert as a wife called Gerry Jeffers, who runs away from penniless inventor husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and takes off for Florida’s Palm Beach. There she soon […]

Sep, 23

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