Derek Winnert

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Libeled Lady **** (1936, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 3682

Director Jack Conway’s infallibly entertaining 1936 vintage MGM comedy boasts four of the biggest star names of the Thirties and a witty, sparkling script about an heiress Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) suing a paper for […]

May, 09

The Underworld Story *** (1950, Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Mary Anderson, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 3657

Excellent, telling performances from Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Mary Anderson and Howard Da Silva spark director Cy Endfield’s gritty 1950 crime drama thriller The Underworld Story, based on a story by Craig Rice. […]

May, 04

The Day the Earth Caught Fire **** (1961, Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 3642

‘THE PICTURE THAT GIVES YOU A FRONT SEAT TO THE MOST JOLTING EVENTS OF TOMORROW…TODAY! ‘ Co-writer/director Val Guest’s ambitious 1961 apocalyptic British science fiction disaster drama is commendably exciting and briskly paced as well […]

May, 01

Park Row **** (1952, Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Herbert Heyes) – Classic Movie Review 3507

Cult name writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller draws on his own early newspaper man experiences for this very neat, taut, low-budget independent B-film drama about a newspaper editor named Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) clashing with battling a […]

Mar, 29

Spotlight **** (2015, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup) – Movie Review

Spotlight is tense, urgent and dynamic, with great performances and a good flavour of the newsroom. Co-writer / director Tom McCarthy urgently tells the true story of how the Boston Globe’s tenacious Spotlight team of […]

Jan, 15

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

The Return of Doctor X [The Return of Dr X] ** (1939, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3,124

‘HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD…TO HAUNT THE LIVING!!!’ The intriguing 1939 horror thriller film The Return of Doctor X stars a just pre-superstardom Humphrey Bogart as the murderous bogeyman Doctor X. Bogart called it a […]

Dec, 02

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