Derek Winnert

Busman’s Honeymoon [Haunted Honeymoon] *** (1940, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers) – Classic Movie Review 6,286

The deliciously charming and amusing 1940 British comedy thriller film Busman’s Honeymoon [Haunted Honeymoon] is based on Dorothy L Sayers’s co-authored London West End play. Director Arthur B Woods’s deliciously charming and amusing 1940 British […]

Nov, 22 · in Reviews

The Business of Strangers *** (2001, Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller) – Classic Movie Review 6287

‘Everyone eats shit. It’s just a question of degrees.’ – Julie. Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles play Julie and Paula, business women of very different ages and backgrounds who meet up at an airport motel, bond over […]

Nov, 22 · in Uncategorized

The Carpetbaggers *** (1964, George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd, Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 6285

Director Edward Dmytryk skillfully turns Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel into its exact movie equivalent – a compulsively trashy epic film with an escapist Hollywood story and glossy cardboard characters. The 1964 tells a romantic drama […]

Nov, 22

Where Love Has Gone *** (1964, Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer, George Macready, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 6284

Director Edward Dmytryk’s lurid 1964 drama is an unseemly but suitably overwrought version of Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel, doubtless sparked off by the real-life story of Lana Turner’s daughter Cheryl killing Lana’s lover in 1958. (She was […]

Nov, 22

Haunted Honeymoon ** (1986, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L Smith, Peter Vaughan, Bryan Pringle) – Classic Movie Review 6283

Co-writer/ director Gene Wilder and his late wife Gilda Radner bring a smidgeon of sparkle into this amiable but slack, creaky and lacklustre 1986 haunted house spoof comedy chiller. The problem, as so often, especially […]

Nov, 22

Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] **** (1950, Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 6282

Michelangelo Antonioni’s hugely promising and satisfying 1950 romantic crime drama Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] is his first full-length feature film, after making highly regarded documentaries, and stars Massimo Girotti (as […]

Nov, 22

Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] **** (1955, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 6281

This early Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 Italian film Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] is a highly successful, clever adaptation of a Cesare Pavese story (Tra Donne Sole) about the relationships between a young cosmopolitan fashion designer […]

Nov, 21

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