Derek Winnert

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The Secret 6 *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 7198

A classy roster of actors embellishes director George W Hill’s 1931 gangster crime thriller The Secret 6, which tells a traditional tale of gangland warfare, bribery and corruption, and the rival crusading reporters (Johnny Mack […]

Jun, 20

The Bedford Incident ***** (1965, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Wally Cox, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 7078

Producer-director James B Harris’s 1965 thriller The Bedford Incident stars Richard Widmark in one of his most satisfying roles as US Naval destroyer commander Captain Eric Finlander, skipper of the American destroyer USS Bedford, who […]

May, 21

Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932

Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]

Apr, 16

Homecoming ** (1948, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6,701

The watchable 1948 wartime romantic film Homecoming finds ideally paired MGM superstars Clark Gable and Lana Turner in unusual roles for them in their third movie together. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s trite 1948 wartime romance film […]

Feb, 17

Somewhere I’ll Find You ** (1942, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle) – Classic Movie Review 6700

Director Wesley Ruggles 1942 wartime romantic drama is the second of the four popular pairings of Clark Gable and Lana Turner at MGM, following Honky Tonk (1941) and followed by Homecoming (1948) and Betrayed (1954). Gable and Robert […]

Feb, 16

Interlude *** (1968, Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Nora Swinburne, Alan Webb, Bernard Kay) – Classic Movie Review 6672

In the original 1939 screenplay for When Tomorrow Comes, Irene Dunne fell for married Charles Boyer, and in its remake, the 1957 film of Interlude, June Allyson fell for continental charmer Rossano Brazzi. And now in […]

Feb, 10

Tank Malling ** (1989, Ray Winstone, Jason Connery, Amanda Donohoe, Glen Murphy, Marsha A Hunt, Peter Wyngarde) – Classic Movie Review 6589

Ray Winstone stars in Tank Malling as investigative reporter John ‘Tank’ Malling, who is approached by a classy hooker called Helen (Amanda Donohoe) with the low-down on a politician, Sir Robert Knight (Peter Wyngarde), and […]

Jan, 21

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