Derek Winnert

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Christopher Strong *** (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 3418

Katharine Hepburn does well in director Dorothy Arzner’s 1933 romantic drama as strong-willed but dashing aviatrix Lady Cynthia Darrington who falls for English member of Parliament Sir Christopher Strong (Colin Clive), threatening his happy marriage to wife Lady Strong (Billie […]

Feb, 27

The Big Knife **** (1955, Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Everett Sloan, Ilka Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3405

Producer-director Robert Aldrich gets his big knife out to stab Tinseltown in the back. He fancies – and really relishes – the idea of biting the hand that feeds him in this sly and superlative […]

Feb, 24

A Summer Place **** (1959, Troy Donahue, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 3382

Fifties teen heartthrob Troy Donahue (aka Merle Johnson Jr) made his film début in Man Afraid (1957) and became a Warner Bros contract player with the stardom conferred on him here in A Summer Place, […]

Feb, 19

I’m Not There **** (2007, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Bruce Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 3288

After nearly five decades of recording music, singer songwriter Bob Dylan has reinvented himself numerous times, metamorphosing from folk troubadour to protest singer to electric rocker to born again Christian and beyond. Yet for all […]

Jan, 22

The Damned Don’t Cry **** (1950, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 3258

‘She’s the Private Lady of a Public Enemy!’ Director Vincent Sherman’s richly enjoyable 1950 flashback-told black and white film noir crime melodrama The Damned Don’t Cry provides a good role for Joan Crawford to do what […]

Jan, 11

Stella Dallas **** (1925, Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce, Lois Moran, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 3177

Director Henry King’s esteemed and moving 1925 silent version of Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel was remade in 1937 and 1990 (as Stella). Belle Bennett magnificently takes the title role as the slatternly lower class Stella […]

Dec, 20

Random Harvest **** (1942, Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Susan Peters, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Rhys Williams, Margaret Wycherly) – Classic Movie Review 3127

That most regal of stars Greer Garson brings her warm and gracious patrician presence to director Mervyn LeRoy’s much-loved 1942 MGM version of the famous story by James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon. It was […]

Dec, 04

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