Derek Winnert

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Idiot’s Delight ***** (1939, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Burgess Meredith, Charles Coburn, Fritz Feld, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 3541

Director Clarence Brown’s 1939 show Idiot’s Delight is a delight all right. This MGM version of the Robert E Sherwood hit play is an all-time great movie hit too thanks to Clark Gable’s nonchalant turn […]

Apr, 08

Patton ***** (1970, George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3515

Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]

Apr, 02

A Walk in the Sun ***** (1945, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 3504

The 1945 classic A Walk in the Sun about one American platoon in the 1943 invasion of Italy is another magnificent milestone war film from producer-director Lewis Milestone, the director of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), […]

Mar, 26

Hell in the Pacific **** (1968, Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune) – Classic Movie Review 3459

Those great tough guys of different cultures Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune star as an American pilot and a Japanese naval officer called Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda, brought together by fate on a small uninhabited island […]

Mar, 07

Inglourious Basterds ***** (2009, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 3445

Quentin Tarantino worked on his script for this action thriller for a decade, with a working title of Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France that reflects its curious mix of war film and spaghetti […]

Mar, 03

Father Goose *** (1964, Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3,073

Cary Grant’s spy code-name is Mother Goose in the feather-weight but charming 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose.  Director Ralph Nelson’s modest but sprightly 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose stars Cary Grant, […]

Nov, 20

San Demetrio London **** (1943, Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Charles Victor, Frederick Piper, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 2827

Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]

Aug, 18

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