Derek Winnert

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It Happened to Jane ** (1959, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs) – Classic Movie Review 7692

Doris Day plays Jane Osgood, the lobster lady from Maine who gets her lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to fight mean railway boss Harry Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who will not deliver her lobsters to her business […]

Oct, 21

Summer Magic *** (1963, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7353

Director James Neilson’s 1963 teen movie Summer Magic stars Walt Disney’s number one star at the time, Hayley Mills, who in real life grows up to celebrate her 17th birthday (on 18 April 1963) but […]

Jul, 27

As the Earth Turns ** (1934, Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell Hardie) – Classic Movie Review 6809

Director Alfred E Green’s 1934 Warner Bros movie tells the stout-hearted tale of trials and tribulations of an immigrant family on a Maine farm, with nice but ambitious Polish immigrant Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) fighting against the […]

Mar, 16

The Strange Woman ***½ (1946, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 4377

Hedy Lamarr caught flu three days after filming started on her own production of The Strange Woman (1946) and the production had to be shut down for three weeks.  Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1946 American […]

Sep, 18

The Iron Giant ****½ (1999, voices of Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel, Harry Connick Jr, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 2647

Writer-director Brad Bird’s outstanding, brilliantly imaginative, dark-toned 1999 animated feature is based on The Iron Man children’s story by British poet Ted Hughes. It starts when a nine-year-old boy, Hogarth Hughes (voiced by Eli Marienthal), […]

Jun, 27

The Cider House Rules **** (1999, Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Jane Alexander, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 964

Director Lasse Hallström’s 1999 romantic drama provided a hit and personal triumph for Michael Caine, who relishes his Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning role here as Dr Wilbur Larch in this tastefully careful adaptation of the […]

Mar, 22

Dreamcatcher **** (2003, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 919

Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]

Mar, 16

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