Derek Winnert

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Great Guy ** (1936, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7620

James Cagney is the great guy here all right in director John G Blystone’s overly cost-conscious 1936 Great Guy [aka Pluck of the Irish], an independent production from poverty row studio Grand National Pictures, with the […]

Sep, 25

The Glass Key **** (1935, George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 4928

Frank Tuttle’s 1935 crime mystery film The Glass Key is the excellent first movie of the 1931 Dashiell Hammett classic thriller novel, with its stars George Raft and Claire Dodd ideally paired.  ‘He asks no […]

Jan, 23

The Great McGinty **** (1940, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Muriel Angelus) – Classic Movie Review 2624

Writer-director Preston Sturges grabs his first chance to direct a movie in a project from his own screenplay that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Writing Original Screenplay. He sold the story […]

Jun, 21

Flamingo Road ***** (1949, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2011

Director Michael Curtiz’s steamy and over-heated but memorable 1949 romantic noir melodrama finds the ideal star in the one and only Joan Crawford in her follow-up to the acclaimed Mildred Pierce, where she won the […]

Dec, 29

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