Derek Winnert

Ash Wednesday * (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 7,012

The 1973 mystery drama film Ash Wednesday is a hysterical farrago, with Elizabeth Taylor as a married woman in her 50s trying to make herself look young via gross plastic surgery in Italy, where she […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Les Félins [The Love Cage] [Joy House] *** (1964, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 7,011

‘The Women of the “Joy House” Allowed Him Every Freedom… Except the Freedom to Leave!’ The fabulous Fonda gets involved with the delicious Delon in the 1964 French mystery thriller film The Love Cage [Joy […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Love on the Dole **** (1941, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Geoffrey Hibbert, Frank Pettingell, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 7010

Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]

May, 06

The Love Specialist [La ragazza del palio] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Valeri, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 7009

Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]

May, 06

As Long as They’re Happy *** (1955, Jack Buchanan, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, Janette Scott, Susan Stephen, Jerry Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 7008

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1955 British comedy stars Jack Buchanan as a stockbroker whose London home is taken over by a Johnnie Ray-style American emotional pop singer, crooner Bobby Denver (Jerry Wayne), hideously mixing tears […]

May, 06

The Trial *** (1993, Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 7007

In a clash of the literary titans, Pinteresque meets Kafkaesque to disappointingly little avail in The Trial (1993). But, nevertheless, this is a respectable Harold Pinter-scripted version of the Franz Kafka novel by director David […]

May, 06

The Long Haul *** (1957, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7006

‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller drama film The Long Haul stars Victor Mature, Diana Dors and Patrick Allen. Hughes’s screenplay is […]

May, 06

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