Derek Winnert

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Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate (1978, Christopher Neil, Arthur Mullard, Anna Quayle, Stephen Lewis, Nina West, William Rushton, Christopher Biggins) – Classic Movie Review 10,411

‘He’s always on call for this sort of job!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1978 Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate is the third of three turgid Seventies British sex comedies, in the Confessions of… style, with […]

Oct, 14

Adventures in Babysitting [A Night on the Town] ** (1987, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 10,410

Elisabeth Shue takes her first steps in Babysitting… Director Chris Columbus’s popular 1987 American teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting [A Night on the Town] stars an attractive but anonymous-seeming young Elisabeth Shue, giving an engaging […]

Oct, 14

Mystery of Edwin Drood *** (1935, Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, E E Clive, Valerie Hobson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,409

Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal studios black and white film Mystery of Edwin Drood is a pleasing, atmospheric, satisfying Victorian England period chiller, successfully based on Charles Dickens’s uncompleted 1870 novel, with Claude Rains enjoying a […]

Oct, 13

The Mystery of Edwin Drood * (1993, Robert Powell, Nanette Newman, Gemma Craven, Jonathan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,408

Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]

Oct, 13

Adventures of a Taxi Driver * (1976, Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Adrienne Posta, Robert Lindsay, Liz Fraser, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 10,407

‘The Laugh-O-Meter Is On!’ ‘He gets more than his fare share!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1976 British sex comedy Adventures of a Taxi Driver is the first of three fairly dismal and turgid Seventies Brit […]

Oct, 13

Le Toubib [The Medic] ** (1979, Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau) – Classic Movie Review 10,399

Director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1979 Le Toubib [The Medic] stars Alain Delon as famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée, who was left by his wife a month ago, and becomes an army doctor in a movable hospital just […]

Oct, 10

Getting Away with Murder (1996, Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 10,384

Writer-director Harvey Miller’s 1996 comedy Getting Away with Murder stars Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Jack Lemmon and Brian Kerwin. Mild-mannered ethics professor Jack Lambert (Aykroyd) discovers his next-door neighbour is the notorious war […]

Oct, 04

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