Derek Winnert

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Cairo *** (1942, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen, Grant Mitchell, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dooley Wilson, Dennis Hoey, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 8205

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]

Mar, 06

I’ll Be Yours ** (1947, Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 7949

Deanna Durbin stars in the 1947 musical romantic comedy I’ll Be Yours as small-town young woman Louise Ginglebusher, who tries to help young lawyer George Prescott (Tom Drake) by getting him a job with rich […]

Dec, 28

Beyond the Forest *** (1949, Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 7664

Director King Vidor’s trashy 1949 film noir romantic drama Beyond the Forest stars a weirdly posturing, unattractive looking, black-wigged Bette Davis, and she is far from her best as Rosa Moline, a 1940s-style American Madame […]

Oct, 12

Silverado *** (1985, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, John Cleese, Rosanna Arquette, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt, Jeff Fahey) – Classic Movie Review 7660

Lawrence Kasdan, fresh from Body Heat and The Big Chill, co-writes, produces and directs the 1985 Silverado, a visually resplendent movie telling a well-plotted Western tale about four drifters – Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott […]

Oct, 10

The Best of Times ** (1986, Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat, M Emmet Walsh, R G Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 7654

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1986 The Best of Times is the first of three 1986 flop films that the late great Robin Williams made in his own worst of box-office times, playing Jack Dundee, a mild, bespectacled […]

Oct, 09

Three Faces West *** (1940, John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 7463

‘GUILTY…OF DARING TO LOVE AND LIVE! ‘ Three Faces West is directed in 1940 by New York City-born film-maker Bernard Vorhaus, a graduate of Harvard University, for Republic Pictures, where contract player John Wayne had finally become […]

Aug, 18

Young Billy Young *** (1969, Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7425

Writer-director Burt Kennedy’s 1969 Young Billy Young is a handsomely produced Western with a grim-looking Robert Mitchum as a peace-loving, but dogged lawman, First Deputy Ben Kane, seeking his son’s killer. Kane takes a job […]

Aug, 10

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