Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "New Orleans"

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Mardi Gras ** (1958, Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, Gary Crosby, Fred Clark, Dick Sargent) – Classic Movie Review 10,810

Originally announced as the film’s stars, Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter only make cameo appearances as themselves in the 1958 New Orleans-set American musical comedy film Mardi Gras directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Pat […]

Jan, 20

Docks of New Orleans * (1948, Roland Winters, Virginia Dale, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung) – Classic Movie Review 9060

Director Derwin Abrahams’s 1948 murder mystery thriller Docks of New Orleans is Roland Winters’s second outing as Earl Derr Biggers’s wily oriental detective Charlie Chan. With Winters weak and disappointing as Charlie Chan, it is […]

Nov, 08

Wounds (2019, Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke) – Movie Review

Oh Armie Hammer! He finds himself stranded in writer-director Babak Anvari’s going-nowhere horror mystery dud Wounds (2019), based on The Visible Filth, a horror novella by Nathan Ballingrud. Yet he gives is his all as […]

Oct, 05

Safe in Hell **** (1931, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse) – Classic Movie Review 6,835

Warner Bros’ fascinating and provocative 1931 crime drama film Safe in Hell stars Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda Karlson, a New Orleans hooker who flees to a Caribbean island after apparently killing Piet Van Saal (Ralf […]

Mar, 20

The Flame of New Orleans *** (1941, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 6746

Director René Clair’s 1941 romance stars the divine Marlene Dietrich, who enchants as Claire Ledeux, a beautiful New Orleans adventuress who is juggling two men. The Flame of New Orleans was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art […]

Feb, 27

Two Smart People *** (1946, Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan, Hugo Haas) – Classic Movie Review 5515

Director Jules Dassin’s 1946 thriller is a somewhat down-bill, down-at-heel mix of film noir, crime caper, romance and humorous chase drama starring Lucille Ball and Lloyd Nolan as confidence trickster Ricki Woodner and sheriff Bob […]

May, 29

Heaven’s Prisoners *** (1995, Alec Baldwin, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kelly Lynch, Teri Hatcher, Eric Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5436

Alec Baldwin showcases his hardened neo-Bogart tough-guy turn again to much advantage as director Phil Joanou turns up the heat on this tough-edged, hardboiled 1995 thriller. Baldwin plays Dave Robicheaux, the drink-addicted ex-New Orleans cop […]

May, 12

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