Derek Winnert

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Men in War *** (1957, Robert Ryan, Robert Keith, Aldo Ray, Vic Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 12,991

‘The part of the military machine that bleeds!’ ‘One more step and I’ll fill your guts with lead!’ Director Anthony Mann’s 1957 war film Men in War is based on the novel Combat by Van […]

Jul, 10

Never So Few *** (1959, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 11,637

Director John Sturges’s 1959 CinemaScope Metrocolor war film Never So Few [Campaign Burma] stars Frank Sinatra as Captain Tom C Reynolds, Allied leader of a tiny but stalwart band fighting the Japanese in Burma in […]

Oct, 09

War Hunt *** (1962, John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 11,636

The 1962 low-budget black and white war movie War Hunt is remembered for Robert Redford’s first major big screen role, as idealistic Private Roy Loomis. Director Denis Sanders’s 1962 low-budget black and white war movie […]

Oct, 08

The Square Peg ** (1958, Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 11,431

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1958 British Rank Organisation black and white war comedy film The Square Peg stars Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman and Honor Blackman. In the original screenplay by Jack Davies, Henry Blyth, Eddie […]

Jul, 29

The Angel Wore Red [La Sposa Bella] * (1960, Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 11,401

‘A FUGITIVE… With a Price On His Head! A WOMAN… With a Price On Her Love!’: When Ava met Dirk in the 1960 film The Angel Wore Red… shot on location in Italy with members of […]

Jul, 18

Virginia City *** (1940, Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 11,094

‘Go West!.. .to Virginia City… for excitement, for adventure, for primitive romance!!!’ Director Michael Curtiz’s 1940 Warner Bros American black and white historical Western action drama Virginia City is an always lusty but sometimes struggling […]

Apr, 13

I See a Dark Stranger [The Adventuress] **** (1946, Deborah Kerr Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 10,067

Director Frank Launder’s extremely enjoyable 1946 wartime British espionage thriller I See a Dark Stranger [The Adventuress] stars Deborah Kerr, who lights up the screen as Bridie Quilty, a young Irish woman whose hatred of […]

Jul, 21

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