Derek Winnert

Reviews

April Love ** (1957, Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels, Arthur O’Connell, Jeanette Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,825

Director Henry Levin’s handsome-looking, pleasant 1957 musical April Love is a simple, sweet Fifties homespun entertainment for the star Pat Boone’s young fans of all those years ago. If they are still around this might […]

Jan, 24

Alphabet City *** (1984, Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Kate Vernon, Jami Gertz, Zohra Lampert) – Classic Movie Review 10,824

‘At 19, they gave him the streets. Tonight, they’re going to take them back.’ Director Amos Poe’s interesting, tough-toned 1984 crime thriller Alphabet City stars Vincent Spano, then a rising star player apparently going places, […]

Jan, 24

Captain Newman, MD *** (1963, Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Robert Duvall, Bobby Darin) – Classic Movie Review 10,823

Director David Miller’s 1963 film Captain Newman, MD is a hit pre-M*A*S*H war comedy-drama for Gregory Peck, who is stiff as a board as Captain Josiah Newman, MD, a World War Two US Army psychiatrist, […]

Jan, 24

Scandal Sheet **** (1952, Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Donna Reed) – Classic Movie Review 10,822

‘Love Nesters! Shock Slayers! Sensation Seekers!’… Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1952 black and white film noir crime thriller Scandal Sheet [The Dark Page] stars John Derek and Donna Reed as New York hot-shot reporters who […]

Jan, 23

Scandal **** (1989, John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey) – Classic Movie Review 10,821

The 1989 drama Scandal is a major British film about the 1963 Profumo sex, spies and politics scandal, with superb performances by John Hurt as bon-viveur osteopath Dr Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as exotic […]

Jan, 22

Passion of Mind ** (2000, Demi Moore, Eloise Eonnet, Joss Ackland, William Fichtner, Sinéad Cusack, Peter Riegert, Stellan Skarsgård, Julianne Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 10,820

Joss Ackland recalled: ”Then there was Passion of Mind in 2000 with Demi Moore. Terrible script. Awful, actually. But I needed the money.’ And he called Moore ‘alright, but not very bright or talented’. Director […]

Jan, 22

The Passion of Joan of Arc [La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc] ***** (1928, Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley) – Classic Movie Review 10,819

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s landmark 1928 French black and white silent historical film The Passion of Joan of Arc, depicting her trial and execution, had a bumpy ride to the screen, and was a […]

Jan, 22

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