Derek Winnert

Padre Padrone **** (1977, Fabrizio Forte, Saverio Marconi, Omero Antonutti, Marcella Michelangeli) – Classic Movie Review 6.927

The Taviani brothers won the Palme d’Or and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre Padrone at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977. Based on the autobiography of Gavino Ledda, the writer-director Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Brothers’ masterly, […]

Apr, 16 · in Reviews

How to Steal the World ** (1968, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Barry Sullivan, Eleanor Parker, Leslie Nielsen, Leo G Carroll, Tony Bill, Albert Paulsen, Hugh Marlowe, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 6,926

The Men from U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are back in 1968 in another engagingly wacky Sixties action adventure, reprising their roles as agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin for the last time in […]

Apr, 15 · in Reviews

The Spy in the Green Hat ** (1967, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G Carroll, Letícia Román, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 6,925

Robert Vaughn and David McCallum (as agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuyakin) play solely for laughs in the farcical plot about bad guys Louis Strago (Jack Palance) and Miss Diketon (Janet Leigh) plotting to move […]

Apr, 15

The Helicopter Spies ** (1968, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Carol Lynley, Julie London, Lola Albright, John Carradine, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 6,924

Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star as U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, who are whisked across the world in their daring quest to gain control of a deadly weapon being used in a […]

Apr, 15

Heller in Pink Tights *** (1960, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O’Brien, Steve Forrest, Edmund Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6923

Director George Cukor’s 1960 movie Heller in Pink Tights stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, who give vivacious, attractive performances that boost an amusing, freewheeling comedy Western about an 1880s theatrical troupe who fight Indians, […]

Apr, 15

The Loves of a Blonde [Lásky jedné plavovlásky] [A Blonde in Love] **** (1965, Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík) – Classic Movie Review 6922

Co-writer/ director Milos Forman’s delightful, fresh and funny 1965 Oscar-nominated Czechoslovak witty comedy tells the story of a pretty young woman called Andula (Hana Brejchová), a shoe factory worker in her fading factory small town in […]

Apr, 15

The Firemen’s Ball [Horí, má panenko] **** (1967, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha) – Classic Movie Review 6921

Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]

Apr, 15

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