Derek Winnert

The War Lover * (1962, Steve McQueen, Shirley Anne Field, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 6460

‘Some men love war the way others love women. This is the story of both kinds!’ Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 British black and white wartime adventure film and aviation epic The War Lover is charismatically […]

Dec, 23 · in Reviews

Soldier in the Rain * (1963, Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill) – Classic Movie Review 6459

Despite starring four notable players Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld and Tony Bill in their prime, director Ralph Nelson’s 1963 film is a really tedious, overheated wartime romantic comedy drama Army master-sergeant Maxwell Slaughter […]

Dec, 23 · in Uncategorized

Soldier Blue **** (1970, Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 6,458

‘Raze the village! Burn this pestilence!’ Ralph Nelson’s intelligent 1970 Western film Soldier Blue has real quality – if you can stomach the strong violence. It stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss and Donald Pleasence. ‘Raze […]

Dec, 23

Murphy’s Romance **** (1985, Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim) – Classic Movie Review 6457

Director Martin Ritt’s 1985 romance finally provides a great role for James Garner as Murphy, a crusty, widowed chemist who gradually falls for another of life’s waifs and strays – younger divorced mother Emma Moriarity (Sally […]

Dec, 23

Duel at Diablo *** (1966, James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Bill Travers, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 6456

Director Ralph Nelson’s strong 1966 movie is basically an old-fashioned Fifties-style action Western with some Sixties trappings, such as an African American star, added violence, and a Neal Hefti score, none of which you’d have […]

Dec, 23

A Yank at Oxford **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 6455

Robert Taylor stars as Lee Sheridan, an arrogant US undergrad among the British dreaming spires in this spirited MGM British comedy, directed Jack Conway in 1937. Naturally, he shows that he is a true blue, […]

Dec, 23

Come Blow Your Horn *** (1963, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Lee J Cobb, Molly Picon) – Classic Movie Review 6454

Director Bud Yorkin’s 1962 comedy stars Frank Sinatra as Alan Baker, a bachelor who finds his swinging lover lifestyle is cramped when his little brother Buddy (Tony Bill, in his début) tries to emulate it. […]

Dec, 22

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