Derek Winnert

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Dear Brigitte ** (1965, James Stewart, Fabian Forte, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Billy Mumy, John Williams, Jack Kruschen) – 2017 Classic Movie Review 5960

James Stewart stars as absent-minded poet American Professor Robert Leaf, whose little boy Erasmus with freckles (Billy Mumy) is a maths prodigy who writes a fan letter to real-life French superstar Brigitte Bardot, in director […]

Aug, 23

Lovely to Look At *** (1952, Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 5740

Red Skelton stars as Al Marsh, who is bequeathed a Paris boutique and travels to France to sell the shop to stage a show in New York with Tony Naylor (Howard Keel) and Jerry Ralby […]

Jul, 10

Berlin Express ***½ (1948, Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5695

Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan lead Jacques Tourneur’s gripping and entertaining 1948 postwar film noir espionage thriller Berlin Express, with a tense train setting, about an Allied group battling to save a German peace-worker diplomat […]

Jul, 02

Pièges [Personal Column] **** (1939, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 5517

Hollywood director Robert Siodmak’s 1939 last French film is a striking romantic thriller starring Maurice Chevalier as Robert Fleury, a charming singing nightclub owner but prime suspect in a serial murder case. Someone is bumping […]

May, 29

Hôtel du Nord ***** (1938, Annabella, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Arletty) – Classic Movie Review 5271

Director Marcel Carné’s fine, poetic 1938 film study of life’s flotsam and jetsam in a tatty Paris hotel near the canal Saint-Martin is one of his finest films, with Arletty as Raymonde, a spirited prostitute […]

Apr, 09

Touchez Pas au Grisbi ***** (1954, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Gaby Basset, Daniel Cauchy, René Dary, Dora Doll, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 5007

A sad and smokey bitter-sweet Gallic atmosphere of tired desperation pervades co-writer/ director Jacques Becker’s 1954 wry classic French noir gangster crime thriller. A movie based on Albert Simonin’s novel was always going to be good, […]

Feb, 04

If I Were King **** (1938, Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, C V France, Heather Thatcher, Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Toler)- Classic Movie Review 4762

Director Frank Lloyd’s exuberant 1938 historical adventure stars Ronald Colman as the knavish Paris philosopher-poet François Villon and Basil Rathbone as the shrewd French King Louis XI. Bot stars are excellent in Paramount’s sleek and […]

Dec, 05

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