Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Rome"

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The Agony and the Ecstasy ** (1965, Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 10,320

Carol Reed’s lavish, lovely looking 1965 biographical historical drama film The Agony and the Ecstasy is based on part of Irving Stone’s 1961 doorstopper novel, and stars Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as the […]

Sep, 18

Caligula [Caligola] * (1979, Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Teresa Ann Savoy) – Classic Movie Review 9881

Director Tinto Brass’s highly controversial 1979 Caligula [Caligola] is the notorious, infamous, hugely costly ($17,500,000) Seventies porn and violence movie, produced by Penthouse Films (US) and Felix Cinematografica (Italy), and released by GTO in 1980 […]

Jun, 09

The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] **** (1966, Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9830

Western cult stars Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian give great workouts for their practised, long-polished turns in director Sergio Sollima’s tough-toned 1966 European Western film The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] about a […]

May, 27

The Games **½ (1970, Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour, Stanley Baker) – Classic Movie Review 9300

A quartet of runners gets ready for the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon in Michael Winner’s acceptable, occasionally exciting 1970 sports drama The Games, which is attractively filmed on globetrotting locations. Though the schematic yarn, loosely […]

Jan, 25

Divorce Italian Style **** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 8686

Packed with comic passion, Pietro Germi’s thoroughly entertaining 1961 Italian commedia nera [black comedy] film Divorce Italian Style [Divorzio all’Italiana] stars the indispensable Marcello Mastroianni as a poverty-stricken Sicilian aristocrat, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, who wants […]

Jul, 09

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum *** (1966, Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford) – Classic Movie Review 8221

And a funny thing happened to the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on the way to the screen for this 1966 British screwball comedy. Director Richard Lester […]

Mar, 09

The Cat o’ Nine Tails [Il gatto a nove code] *** (1971, James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak) – Classic Movie Review 8151

‘As the body count increases, will no one escape the sting of the cat o’ nine tails’. Director Dario Argento’s 1971 giallo horror mystery thriller The Cat O’ Nine Tails [Il Gatto a Nove Code] […]

Feb, 19

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