Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "weepie"

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Invitation ** (1952, Dorothy McGuire, Van Johnson, Ruth Roman, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 12,173

Director Gottfried Reinhardt’s extravagant 1952 black and white romantic drama Invitation stars Dorothy McGuire, Van Johnson, Ruth Roman, and Louis Calhern. It is ‘The Story of a Borrowed Love!’ Invitation is a soppy but sleek […]

Jun, 14

Never Say Goodbye ** (1956, Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Ray Collins, David Janssen, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 11,640

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1956 American Technicolor comedy-drama romance film Never Say Goodbye stars Rock Hudson as a surgeon called Dr Mike Parker, who operates on Lisa Gosting (Cornell Borchers), the Viennese wife he walked out […]

Oct, 11

Madame X ** (1937, Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 6816

Director Sam Wood’s 1937 MGM drama is the fifth (of seven) cinema film versions of this classic fallen woman, road-to-ruin weepie tale about Jacqueline Fleuriot, a rich woman whose life is wrecked by a brief […]

Mar, 18

My Life Without Me **** (2003, Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman) – Classic Movie Review 1269

Writer-director Isabel Coixet’s 2003 Canadian-Spanish co-production is a great tearjerker. Sarah Polley tugs expertly at the heartstrings as a 23-year-old wife and mother dying of ovarian cancer in this depressing, but exquisitely done and warmly affecting […]

May, 31

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