Derek Winnert

The Man Who Knew Too Little ** (1997, Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, John Standing, Geraldine James) – Classic Movie Review 6681

Director John Amiel’s silly, lowbrow 1997 Swinging Sixties-style screwball comedy is enlivened and sharpened a little by Bill Murray’s typically acerbic comic acting as Wallace Ritchie, an Iowa suburban video store clerk who flies to […]

Feb, 12 · in Reviews

Interiors ***** (1978, Diane Keaton, E G Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Sam Waterston) – Classic Movie Review 6,680

Mary Beth Hurt makes her film debut as Joey, the second of three sisters dealing with the emotional fallout of a family’s disintegration, in Woody Allen’s dramatic film Interiors (1978). Devotees of the early Woody Allen gag-driven comedies […]

Feb, 12 · in Reviews

Intermezzo: A Love Story **** (1939, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best) – Classic Movie Review 6679

It is time to get your box of handkerchiefs at the ready for director Gregory Ratoff’s irresistibly charming 1939 romantic drama tearjerker that launched the American career of Ingrid Bergman, who had already appeared in […]

Feb, 11

Intermezzo *** (1936, Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad) – Classic Movie Review 6678

Co-writer/ director Gustaf Molander’s unfairly neglected Swedish original 1936 film of the classic 1939 Hollywood romance Intermezzo sees Ingrid Bergman as the gorgeous young musician Anita Hoffman falling in love with married, older concert violinist Professor Holger Brandt (Gösta […]

Feb, 11

Color Me Dead * (1969, Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason) – Classic Movie Review 6677

Producer-director Eddie Davis’s 1969 Australian remake of the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A. stars Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, an accountant who finds he has taken a slow-working deadly poison and must track down his […]

Feb, 11

D.O.A. *** (1988, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 6676

The 1950 cult classic film noir crime thriller D.O.A. was remade in Australia in 1969 as Color Me Dead, directed by Eddie Davis, before this 1988 D.O.A. remake, directed Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and starring Dennis […]

Feb, 11

Thunder on the Hill [Bonaventure] *** (1951, Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 6675

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1951 thriller was his first A-project in the first year of his contract with Universal, following the modest B-movie Mystery Submarine (1950). It stars Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas and Anne […]

Feb, 10

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