Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Le Train [The Last Train] **** (1973, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Anne Wiazemsky, Serge Marquand, Maurice Biraud) – Classic Movie Review 7051

With its sour undertow of wartime and doomed love, director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1973 French-Italian World War Two drama film Le Train [The Last Train] is a moving, credible evocation of romance in a time of […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

The Train **** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Albert Rémy, Charles Millot) – Classic Movie Review 7,050

The smart and exciting 1964 wartime action thriller The Train stars Burt Lancaster as a French Resistance leader trying to hijack the train-load of French art treasures a fanatical German Colonel (Paul Scofield) is sending […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

Trail Street *** (1947, Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 7,049

RKO’s traditional, unassuming 1947 Western film Trail Street is lifted by a worthy cast and a rousing climactic battle between the cattlemen and the farmers. Randolph Scott is a sterling movie cowboy as US marshal […]

May, 14

The Driver **** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7,048

Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]

May, 13

Driving Miss Daisy **** (1989, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 7047

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1989 comedy drama is based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play by screen-writer Alfred Uhry and triumphed at the box office (it took $106 million in the US) and at the Academy […]

May, 13

Dad **** (1989, Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke, Zakes Mokae, JT Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 7046

Writer-producer-director Gary David Goldberg’s sweet but, happily, not too sickly 1989 comedy drama Dad is taken from the novel by William Wharton and stars the splendid team of Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy […]

May, 13

Kotch **** (1971, Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman) – Classic Movie Review 7045

In 1971 Jack Lemmon expertly directs (in his début and sole film as director) his old buddy Walter Matthau as Joseph ‘Kotch’ Kotcher, a septuagenarian retired salesman widower who refuses to let his adult children […]

May, 12

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