Derek Winnert

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The Very Thought of You ** (1944, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9,734

Director Delmer Daves’s tepid but kindly 1944 wartime romantic drama film The Very Thought of You stars Dennis Morgan as a US Army sergeant, Sgt David ‘Dave’ Stewart in World War Two. Dave and his […]

May, 08

What Price Glory *** (1952, James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, Robert Wagner, Marisa Pavan, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 7917

Director John Ford’s 1952 comedy drama What Price Glory? is a low-key Technicolor remake of the classic Raoul Walsh silent film from 1926 What Price Glory? (itself based on a 1924 long running Broadway play by […]

Dec, 17

Strategic Air Command *** (1955, James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 7875

Director Anthony Mann’s 1955 Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as Lieutenant Colonel Robert ‘Dutch’ Holland, who sacrifices his baseball career to join the US Air Force and fly A-bomb jets, while his sweet wife […]

Dec, 03

Streamers **** (1983, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein) – Classic Movie Review 7534

Boldly treating the cinema screen like a theatre stage, director Robert Altman films his 1983 success Streamers on a single location – the army barracks dormitory where a group of young US recruits are waiting […]

Sep, 03

Task Force *** (1949, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Julie London, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7160

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s respectful and involving but surprisingly routine and rather ordinary 1949 World War Two drama stars Gary Cooper as US Navy chief Jonathan L Scott, who tries to persuade his bosses to back […]

Jun, 13

PT 109 ** (1963, Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory, Robert Culp, Grant Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6244

Cliff Robertson impersonates President, or rather Lieutenant, John F Kennedy in Leslie H Martinson’s well-meaning but long, routine and stuffily handled 1963 World War Two biographical war film about JFK’s youthful war adventures in the […]

Nov, 13

Battle of the Bulge **** (1965, Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 6,241

Ken Annakin’s truly epic 1965 World War Two wartime action film Battle of the Bulge is a sweeping, involving, often exciting battle movie. Robert Shaw stars in the real-life story about an ace commanding Panzer […]

Nov, 13

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