Derek Winnert

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Across to Singapore *** (1928, Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence.) – Classic Movie Review 12,460

MGM’s 1928 silent sea-going romantic drama film Across to Singapore stars Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford and Ernest Torrence. It offers plenty of high emotion, high adventure, high spirits and of course romance.  ‘A Romance full […]

Mar, 27

Down to the Sea in Ships *** (1949, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9877

The very spitting image of Captain Birdseye, Lionel Barrymore has a whale of a time with his role as sea Captain Bering Joy, a spectacularly grizzled ship’s captain, in this entertaining, old-fashioned sea saga about […]

Jun, 08

Barnacle Bill [All at Sea] *** (1957, Irene Browne, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 8596

Director Charles Frend’s good-humoured little Ealing Studios 1957 black and white comedy film Barnacle Bill [All at Sea] stars Alec Guinness as seasick sailor Captain William Horatio Ambrose, who buys a seaside hotel (which he […]

Jun, 16

Windbag the Sailor *** (1936, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Norma Varden) – Classic Movie Review 8199

Director William Beaudine’s 1936 British comedy Windbag the Sailor stars Will Hay in his first teaming with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The beloved trio of comics try hard with a moderate script and character […]

Mar, 05

The Master of Ballantrae *** (1984, Michael York, Richard Thomas, John Gielgud, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, Finola Hughes, Nickolas Grace, Brian Blessed) – Classic Movie Review 7280

Likeable hero Michael York swashbuckles impressively again in director Douglas Hickox’s spruce, fast-paced, well produced 1984 British-made TV version of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel about the plot to put Bonnie Prince Charlie […]

Jul, 11

The Flame of New Orleans *** (1941, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 6746

Director René Clair’s 1941 romance stars the divine Marlene Dietrich, who enchants as Claire Ledeux, a beautiful New Orleans adventuress who is juggling two men. The Flame of New Orleans was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art […]

Feb, 27

Isle of Forgotten Sins [Monsoon] ** (1943, John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Frank Fenton) – Classic Movie Review 5731

Story writer/ director Edgar G Ulmer’s exotic but trashy 1943 movie tells a below-par, clichéd tale of a search for a sunken ship with a $3 million cargo of gold in the South Seas. However, […]

Jul, 08

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