Derek Winnert

The Girl Who Had Everything ** (1953, Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 6419

Fiery Elizabeth Taylor stars as Jean Latimer, who upsets her attorney father Steve Latimer (William Powell) when she romances his gangster client Victor Y Raimondi (Fernando Lamas), in director Richard Thorpe’s routinely competent 1953 crime soap. […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

Elephant Walk ** (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 6418

Elizabeth Taylor enlivens director William Dieterle’s tepid, clichéd 1954 potboiler adventure movie about a romantic triangle on a Ceylon tea plantation, based on the novel by Robert Standish. Taylor plays lovely English rose Ruth Wiley, the new wife […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

BUtterfield 8 ** (1960, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 6417

Elizabeth Taylor won the 1961 Best Actress Oscar as Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful New York fashion model and classy call girl with problems, in director Daniel Mann’s 1960 drama based on the novel by John […]

Dec, 17

Raintree County ** (1957, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6,416

Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint star in MGM’s extravagant 1957 American epic historical romantic Western war film Raintree County, based on Ross Lockridge Jr’s 1948 novel.  A typecast Elizabeth Taylor settles in comfortably to a tailor-made role […]

Dec, 17

Rhapsody ** (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 6415

Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, a gorgeous rich young woman romantically involved with both a violinist, Paul Bronte (Vittorio Gassman), and a pianist, James Guest (John Ericson) in Zurich. The question is, which one will end […]

Dec, 16

Inherit the Wind **** (1960, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 6414

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classy 1960 courtroom drama, based on a famous real-life case of 1925, finds Spencer Tracy and Fredric March on splendid form as rival lawyers arguing over Darwinian theory, with solid support from […]

Dec, 16

Last Flag Flying **** (2017, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell) – Movie Review

Director Richard Linklater’s poignant 2017 drama, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan, is absolutely first rate. There are three marvellous performances, a great script, some tremendous bitter-sweet moments, and a wonderful tear-jerking ending. Bryan […]

Dec, 16

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