Derek Winnert

Trail Street *** (1947, Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 7,049

RKO’s traditional, unassuming 1947 Western film Trail Street is lifted by a worthy cast and a rousing climactic battle between the cattlemen and the farmers. Randolph Scott is a sterling movie cowboy as US marshal […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

The Driver **** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7,048

Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]

May, 13 · in Reviews

Driving Miss Daisy **** (1989, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 7047

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1989 comedy drama is based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play by screen-writer Alfred Uhry and triumphed at the box office (it took $106 million in the US) and at the Academy […]

May, 13

Dad **** (1989, Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke, Zakes Mokae, JT Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 7046

Writer-producer-director Gary David Goldberg’s sweet but, happily, not too sickly 1989 comedy drama Dad is taken from the novel by William Wharton and stars the splendid team of Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy […]

May, 13

Kotch **** (1971, Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman) – Classic Movie Review 7045

In 1971 Jack Lemmon expertly directs (in his début and sole film as director) his old buddy Walter Matthau as Joseph ‘Kotch’ Kotcher, a septuagenarian retired salesman widower who refuses to let his adult children […]

May, 12

Pete ‘n’ Tillie **** (1972, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page) – Classic Movie Review 7044

Director Martin Ritt’s 1972 comedy drama is funny, heartwarming and hugely likeable, with a good script lifted high by ingratiating performances from the supremely expert and ideally paired comedians Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett as […]

May, 12

Period of Adjustment *** (1962, Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver, Jack Albertson, Mabel Albertson, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 7043

Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]

May, 12

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