Derek Winnert

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When Ladies Meet *** (1941, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 7504

‘Hollywood Parade Of Stars In Gay Romance’ – sounds appealing, huh? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have another go in 1941 at filming Rachel Crothers’s 1932 play following their 1933 movie When Ladies Meet with Ann Harding, Robert […]

Aug, 27

Bell, Book and Candle **** (1958, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 5091

Director Richard Quine’s super-tasty 1958 comedy is lightweight but delicious Fifties fantasy fun, based on the play John Van Druten, with an expert screenplay by Daniel Taradash. With Technicolor cinematography by James Wong Howe and sets […]

Mar, 01

Wolf **** (1994, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Plummer, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 4,390

Mike Nichols’s thrilling, lovingly made 1994 modern-day werewolf movie Wolf stars Jack Nicholson as publisher Will Randall, who becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job. Director Mike Nichols’s thrilling, lovingly made […]

Sep, 21

The Lost Moment *** (1947, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3892

The 1947 film noir-style romantic drama The Lost Moment is an attractively atmospheric oddity, based on Henry James’s 1888 novella The Aspern Papers. It greatly alters the characters and adds schizophrenia, a murder and a […]

Jun, 20

Meet John Doe ****½ (1941, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 3848

Director Frank Capra’s vintage 1941 drama Meet John Doe stars Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan. Robert Riskin’s screenplay is based on the story The Life and Death of John Doe by […]

Jun, 11

Swimming Pool **** (2003, Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, Ludivine Sagnier) – Classic Movie Review 3347

Charles Dance plays John Bosload, a British publisher who sends his prize mystery thriller author Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) off from London to his French getaway home at Luberon, in the South of France. There the strange, […]

Feb, 12

Pulp **** (1972, Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lizabeth Scott, Lionel Stander, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 2164

Writer-director Mike Hodges’s acclaimed 1972 cult movie is a jokey homage to or send-up of the film noir genre. It stars Michael Caine as a seedy writer of sleazy pulp fiction novels called Mickey King, who […]

Feb, 10

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