Derek Winnert

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Run of the Arrow **** (1957, Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 3469

Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is an ambitious, tough, odd Western and it is one of the important works of cult film-maker Fuller, who said: ‘Rod Steiger overdoes it and I had to keep an […]

Mar, 12

The Wild One **** (1953, Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 2491

Marlon Brando stars as the quintessential wild boy in director Laslo Benedek’s legendary, once infamous 1953 biker teenage rebellion melodrama, which was banned in Britain until 1967. As a biker exploitation movie, it influenced the genre in the […]

May, 16

The Far Country **** (1954, James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 2048

Director Anthony Mann’s sterling 1954 Western is one of the finest results of his fruitful five-movie collaboration with James Stewart, who stars as strong-minded, self-obsessed adventurer Jeff Webster. It is notable as one of the few Westerns, […]

Jan, 04

Bend of the River [Where the River Bends] **** (1952, James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 2019

Director Anthony Mann teams up with James Stewart again for the 1952 classic Western Bend of the River [Where the River Bends], with a slew of convincing performances, an impressive Technicolor production and plenty of […]

Dec, 30

Kismet *** (1955, Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone) – Classic Movie Review 1837

  Director Vicente Minnelli’s 1955 MGM musical version of the hit show, based on the old Edward Knoblock (non-musical play Kismet and Aleksandr Borodin’s music, is kitsch and luridly colourful in odd Eastmancolor. Howard Keel […]

Nov, 12

They Live by Night ***** (1948, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard DaSilva, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 1585

This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly emotional 1948 poetic film noir about doomed lovers on the run is cult co-writer/director Nicholas Ray’s superb first movie. The prototype for the whole couple on the run genre, it is way […]

Aug, 23

Winchester ’73 ***** (1953, James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally) – Classic Movie Review 638

James Stewart stars in this landmark 1953 Western in which he plays Lin McAdam, whose marksmanship competition winner’s prize Winchester rifle is stolen at a contest by the runner-up next-in-line, Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally). McAdam’s […]

Jan, 06

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