Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "love triangle"

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Blue Skies ***½ (1946, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield) – Classic Movie Review 4365

Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby both pursue Joan Caulfield in Paramount’s likeable, if run-of-the-mill 1946 Technicolor backstage musical Blue Skies, lifted up high by 22 Irving Berlin songs. Everyone who loves vintage musicals will be in […]

Sep, 14

Saadia *** (1953, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Wanda Rotha) – Classic Movie Review 3495

Modern medicine meets its match in traditional Moroccan magic when the French doctor Henrik (Mel Ferrer) falls for a wild, strange local Arab girl called Saadia (Rita Gam) whom he saves from sickness and the […]

Mar, 23

The Crimson Kimono **** (1959, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Victoria Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 3468

‘Yes, this is a beautiful American girl in the arms of a Japanese boy!’ explained the advertising. Cult writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s commendably taut and tense little 1959 film noir thriller boasts fascinating detail, an intriguing […]

Mar, 12

Hellcats of the Navy ** (1957, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, Harry Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 3455

Director Nathan Juran’s 1957 war movie is a must-see for its one-off screen appearance together of married political couple Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis (Reagan), in which he plays a submarine commander called Casey Abbott who […]

Mar, 06

Brooklyn **** (2015, Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

Saoirse Ronan stars as Ellis, a bright young Irish immigrant who arrives in 1950s Brooklyn. She hoves up at old Mrs Julie Walters’s boarding house, gets a department store job and, though initially homesick, soon […]

Nov, 05

Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent [Anne and Muriel] **** (1971, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Movie Review 3014

François Truffaut’s tantalising period romantic drama finds him returning to the love triangle theme he earlier profitably mined in Jules et Jim (1963) and La Peau Douce (1964). It tells the story of a French […]

Oct, 29

La Peau Douce [Silken Skin] **** (1964, Jean Dessailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti) – Classic Movie Review 3010

For his dazzling fourth feature, co-writer and director François Truffaut returns in 1964 to the love triangle theme of his previous movie, Jules et Jim, but this time with a weak man (Jean Dessailly) at the […]

Oct, 27

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