Derek Winnert

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The Toast of New York *** (1937, Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 7180

Director Rowland V Lee’s ambitious 1937 RKO Radio Pictures black and white comedy drama tackles the lively subject of 19th-century tycoonery in a fairy tale poor-man-makes-good biopic of Wall Street’s Jim Fisk – not a name on […]

Jun, 17

From the Terrace **** (1960, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Leon Ames, Ina Balin, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6095

Producer-director Mark Robson’s 1960 drama has the inestimable advantage of starring Paul Newman and his real-life wife Joanne Woodward, whom he married on 29 January 1958. This fascinating film of John O’Hara’s mammoth, steamy novel is slightly […]

Oct, 14

American Psycho **** (2000, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis) – Classic Film Review 261

Christian Bale gives an astonishing performance as 27-year-old Eighties New York yuppie Patrick Bateman, a handsome, well educated, brilliantly groomed and superbly gym-fit, muscled-up Wall Street broker. He earns a fortune in his job by […]

Sep, 30

Working Girl **** (1988, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 198

Melanie Griffith is at her appealing, lovely best as top Wall Street secretary Tess McGill in Mike Nichols’s delicious, vintage-style 1988 romantic comedy Working Girl, an infectiously happy feel-good tale of much-deserved comeuppance. You know, the […]

Aug, 28

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