Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "New York"

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Drums Along the Mowhawk **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 6828

Director John Ford’s sprawling and unfocused but exciting and colourful 1939 film tells the story about a group of farmers in upstate New York caught napping by Indian attacks during the Revolutionary War. Claudette Colbert […]

Mar, 19

Daisy Kenyon *** (1947, Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Ruth Warrick) – Classic Movie Review 6741

Joan Crawford has a great, overwrought time in 20th Century Fox’s 1947 romantic-drama film Daisy Kenyon, a heated melodramatic story of a romantic triangle. The starry cast of Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Ruth […]

Feb, 26

BUtterfield 8 ** (1960, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 6417

Elizabeth Taylor won the 1961 Best Actress Oscar as Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful New York fashion model and classy call girl with problems, in director Daniel Mann’s 1960 drama based on the novel by John […]

Dec, 17

Life with Father **** (1947, William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Martin Milner, Jimmy Lydon, Emma Dunn, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 6314

Clarence Day Jr’s autobiographical reminiscences of his family life at the turn of the last century was a Broadway smash, and director Michael Curtiz’s warm and witty 1947 film brings all of its appeal intact […]

Nov, 25

Person to Person ** (2017, Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall, Isiah Whitlock Jr) – Movie Review 

Person to Person (2017) is in the Laugh section at the London Film Festival. ‘Laugh’ seems more of an order or a challenge than something, er, funny. Well, I did laugh, but perhaps not quite […]

Sep, 18

Desperately Seeking Susan **** (1985, Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy, Laurie Metcalf, Steven Wright) – Classic Movie Review 5968

Director Susan Seidelman’s 1985 hit neo screwball comedy Desperately Seeking Susan is a delicious, offbeat romantic comedy adventure starring Rosanna Arquette as the fed-up housewife Roberta Glass who investigates a puzzling series of personal ads […]

Aug, 25

Untamed *** (1929, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, Lloyd Ingraham) – Classic Movie Review 5954

Following her star-making role of Diana Medford in the hit silent Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Joan Crawford’s first talkie, Untamed (1929), was made during the difficult period of MGM’s transition from silent to sound movies. But it was another success for Crawford, propelling her […]

Aug, 22

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