Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Farmer Takes a Wife *** (1935, Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 10,667

Director Victor Fleming’s sweet 1935 1820s-set romance The Farmer Takes a Wife stars Henry Fonda,  who impresses in his film début (already 30) as the nice farmer Dan Harrow, who courts bargee’s cute housekeeper Molly […]

Dec, 14

The Family Secret *** (1951, John Derek, Lee J Cobb, Jody Lawrance) – Classic Movie Review 10,666

‘One mad raging moment behind the roadhouse… and a lifetime of regret!’ Director Henry Levin’s 1951 American black and white film noir crime film The Family Secret stars John Derek as young lawyer David Clark, […]

Dec, 14

Family Honeymoon **** (1948, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 10,665

Director Claude Binyon’s 1949 screwball comedy Family Honeymoon stars Claudette Colbert as widowed Katie, a new bride who brings the three kids from her previous marriage along on the honeymoon, perplexing new stepdaddy Grant Jordan […]

Dec, 13

The Family Jewels * (1965, Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 10,664

Jerry Lewis tries to do a Kind Hearts and Coronets, giving himself seven parts in the 1965 comedy The Family Jewels, a film he directs and has co-written (with Bill Richmond) about a 10-year-old heiress […]

Dec, 13

Family Life **** (1971, Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave) Classic Movie Review 10,663

Director Ken Loach’s extremely skilled and acute, if depressing 1971 British drama Family Life is the film version of David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds about a 19-year old London girl (Sandy Ratcliff) driven […]

Dec, 13

Family of Cops *** (1995, Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Sebastian Spence) – Classic Movie Review 10,662

The 74-year-old Charles Bronson stars as old cop Paul Fein in director Ted Kotcheff’s 1995 Family of Cops, the first of a series of three highly competent TV movie crime thrillers. A well cast Bronson […]

Dec, 13

Family Viewing *** (1987, David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian) – Classic Movie Review 10,661

Van: ‘I’ve been feeling kinda weird lately.’ Writer-director Atom Egoyan shows his unusual talent and cleverness in the 1987 Canadian drama Family Viewing, a surreal study of a disunited, TV obsessed family, in which a […]

Dec, 13

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