Derek Winnert

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Green Hell ** (1940, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Alan Hale Sr, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7421

The exceptional director James Whale and an out-of-the-rut cast (Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Vincent Price) lift producer Harry Eddington’s in-the-rut 1940 adventure movie about South American natives attacking a jungle expedition searching […]

Aug, 09

Road to Zanzibar *** (1941, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 6979

‘ IT’S THAT GLEESOME THREESOME AGAIN! Giving you your worth in mirth! Topping all the fun in Road to Singapore!’ Director Victor Schertzinger’s gleesome 1941 comedy is the funny sequel to Road to Singapore (1940), in which […]

Apr, 29

Swiss Family Robinson *** (1940, Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) – Classic Movie Review 6938

Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]

Apr, 17

Medicine Man *** (1992, Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker) – Classic Movie Review 6799

Director John McTiernan’s 1992 adventure stars a pony-tailed Sean Connery as Dr Robert Campbell, a drug company’s eccentric scientist who has discovered a cure for cancer in the South America tropical rain forests, but he cannot replicate […]

Mar, 13

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ** (2017, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Alex Wolff, Nick Jonas) – Movie Review

Director Jake Kasdan’s harmless but lame, laborious and empty-headed reboot of Jumanji (1995) cost a lot – $90 million – but has taken a fortune – $254 million in the US. It goes for the old downhome […]

Jan, 12

Call Me Bwana ** (1963, Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 6550

Bob Hope is pleasantly enough showcased in director Gordon Douglas’s 1962 British-made farcical comedy, which turns out to be adequate though rather low-fun entertainment. It is all a bit slack and silly. Hope stars as […]

Jan, 12

White Cargo *** (1942, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, Frank Morgan, Bramwell Fletcher, Richard Ainley, Reginald Owen, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6299

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 MGM film is a daft, but endearingly simple-minded old-style romantic adventure drama movie of love-hate triangle goings-on in the jungle, with Leon Gordon adapting his own play from 1923. Walter Pidgeon stars […]

Nov, 24

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