Derek Winnert

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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

Hell Below Zero *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6988

Alan Ladd had his second stay in Britain for director Mark Robson’s 1954 murder-at-sea mystery in which, as Duncan Craig, he becomes first mate on a whaler to find out why Judie Nordhal (Joan Tetzel)’s […]

May, 02

All the Brothers Were Valiant *** (1953, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth) – Classic Movie Review 4654

MGM’s old-fashioned 1953 sea-faring adventure film All the Brothers Were Valiant stars Stewart Granger and Robert Taylor as valiant sailing ship brothers Mark and Joel Shore, working in the fishing business in the South Pacific […]

Nov, 14

In the Heart of the Sea ** (2015, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Tom Holland, Benjamin Walker) – Movie Review

‘The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.’ Ben Whishaw plays the author Herman Melville, who in the 1850s turns up at the home of Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who […]

Dec, 16

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