Derek Winnert

Reviews

Ten Days’ Wonder [La Décade prodigieuse] *** (1971, Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Anthony Perkins, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 11,579

Director Claude Chabrol’s fascinating 1971 French murder-mystery film Ten Days’ Wonder [La Décade prodigieuse] stars Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Anthony Perkins, and Michel Piccoli. Intriguing as it always is, Chabrol defined it as a ‘failed film’ […]

Sep, 16

Catch Me a Spy ** (1971, Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard, Tom Courtenay, Marlène Jobert, Patrick Mower, Bernadette Lafont, Bernard Blier) – Classic Movie Review 11,578

Director Dick Clement’s 1971 comedy spy film Catch Me a Spy [To Catch a Spy] stars Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard, Tom Courtenay, Marlène Jobert, Patrick Mower, Bernadette Lafont, and Bernard Blier. The story is based on […]

Sep, 16

The Police War [La Guerre des Polices] *** (1979, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Marlène Jobert) – Classic Movie Review 11,577

Busy French star Claude Brasseur (son of the distinguished stage actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux) stars with Marlène Jobert (Catch Me a Spy, 1971) in writer-director Robin Davis’s carefully detailed, fitfully very involving 1979 […]

Sep, 15

Mrs Parkington ** (1944, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 11,571

MGM’s carefully made, well acted 1944 black and white drama film Mrs Parkington stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as husband and wife for the fourth time. Director Tay Garnett’s 1944 MGM black and white […]

Sep, 13

After Office Hours *** (1935, Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 11,569

Robert Z Leonard directs the satisfyingly complicated 1935 MGM crime thriller After Office Hours. Clark Gable and Constance Bennett carry a sharply penned piece from the writer of Citizen Kane. King of Hollywood Clark Gable […]

Sep, 12

Choose Me **** (1984, Geneviève Bujold, Lesley Ann Warren, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 11,568

Inventive writer-director-with-a-difference Alan Rudolph follows his Welcome to LA and Remember My Name with the deliciously quirky and perceptive 1984 adult comedy-drama film Choose Me about the relationships between repressed radio chat show sex therapist Nancy […]

Sep, 12

Endangered Species * (1982, Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 11,567

A Colorado town’s cattle are being bumped off after operations done on them, and burnt-out former New York cop (Robert Urich) Reuben Castle and sheriff Harriet Perdue (JoBeth Williams) dig the dirt, in director Alan […]

Sep, 11

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