Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Love Specialist [La ragazza del palio] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Valeri, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 7009

Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

As Long as They’re Happy *** (1955, Jack Buchanan, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, Janette Scott, Susan Stephen, Jerry Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 7008

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1955 British comedy stars Jack Buchanan as a stockbroker whose London home is taken over by a Johnnie Ray-style American emotional pop singer, crooner Bobby Denver (Jerry Wayne), hideously mixing tears […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Trial *** (1993, Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 7007

In a clash of the literary titans, Pinteresque meets Kafkaesque to disappointingly little avail in The Trial (1993). But, nevertheless, this is a respectable Harold Pinter-scripted version of the Franz Kafka novel by director David […]

May, 06

The Long Haul *** (1957, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7006

‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller drama film The Long Haul stars Victor Mature, Diana Dors and Patrick Allen. Hughes’s screenplay is […]

May, 06

Value for Money *** (1955, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen ) – Classic Movie Review 7005

Director Ken Annakin’s enjoyable 1955 British Technicolor comedy Value for Money is based on a novel by Derrick Boothroyd and stars John Gregson as Chayley Broadbent, a blunt English Northerner who inherits rag-trade wealth and goes to London […]

May, 05

Give Us the Moon *** (1944, Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, Jean Simmons, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 7004

Writer-director Val Guest’s intriguing, delightfully frivolous 1944 British comedy is about a group of drop-outs who found The White Elephant Club above a London Soho restaurant, run by Nina, a beautiful young White Russian émigrée (Margaret […]

May, 05

Bachelor Flat ** (1961, Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7003

In Bachelor Flat, a beloved eccentric English comedian runs along a California beach without his trousers and girls dash madly in and out of closets. Co-writer/ director Frank Tashlin adapts a play by Budd Grossman as […]

May, 05

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