Derek Winnert

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Diamond Horseshoe **** (1945, Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, Margaret Dumont, William Gaxton) – Classic Movie Review 11,044

Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]

Mar, 25

Someone at the Door ** (1950, Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh, Yvonne Owen, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,039

‘Let yourself in for a Big Laugh!’ Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British Hammer Films black and white comedy mystery thriller Someone at the Door stars Michael Medwin, Yvonne Owen, Garry Marsh, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green, […]

Mar, 23

Treasure of the Golden Condor ** (1953, Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, George Macready, Anne Bancroft, Fay Wray, Walter Hampden, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 11,009

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Technicolor adventure Treasure of the Golden Condor is 18th-century Latin American costume-drama nonsense with Cornel Wilde as a young Frenchman, Jean-Paul, swindled out of a fortune by his wicked uncle, the Marquis de […]

Mar, 10

Island of Lost Men *** (1939, Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Eric Blore, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 10,746

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]

Jan, 03

Hello Frisco, Hello **** (1943, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar, June Havoc, Ward Bond, George Barbier) – Classic Movie Review 10,735

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1943 20th Century Fox wartime hit film Hello Frisco, Hello is an exceptionally bright and breezy Alice Faye musical in which she gets to sing the sweet Best Original Song Oscar-winner […]

Jan, 01

The Oregon Trail (1936, John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Joseph W Girard) – Classic Movie Review 10,630

Director Scott Pembroke’s 1936 Republic Pictures black and white short (59 minutes) Western film The Oregon Trail stars the 29-year-old John Wayne as retired US Army Captain John Delmont, out to avenge his father’s killer, left […]

Dec, 05

Rich and Famous *** (1981, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill, Meg Ryan, Michael Brandon, Matt Lattanzi, Dack Rambo) – Classic Movie Review 10,528

Director George Cukor’s last film (at the age of 82) is the 1981 American drama Rich and Famous, an amusing, involving remake of 1943’s Old Acquaintance, with Jacqueline Bisset as sulky Liz Hamilton and Candice […]

Nov, 11

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