Derek Winnert

The Hireling **** (1973, Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan, Elizabeth Sellars, Caroline Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 6274

L P Hartley’s class-conscious novel set in 1923 about a chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw), who befriends and falls for his posh, disturbed mistress Lady Franklin (Sarah Miles) may be a trifle thin and sedate as cinema. […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

1776 *** (1972, William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, David Ford, Blythe Danner, Ron Holgate) – Classic Movie Review 6273

Director Peter H Hunt’s 1972 movie is an interesting but ordinary film of Sherman Edwards’s hit Broadway stage musical about America’s independence. The Broadway production won 1969 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Featured Actor in […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Little Big Man ***** (1970, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 6272

Director Arthur Penn’s classic 1970 epic Western stars Dustin Hoffman, who gives a bravura performance as Jack Crabb, 121-year-old survivor of Little Big Horn, who recounts his tall story as an adopted Cheyenne and buddy […]

Nov, 20

Rooster Cogburn *** (1975, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 6271

John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]

Nov, 19

Monster on the Campus *** (1958, Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Whit Bissell, Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters) – Classic Movie Review 6270

This 1958 horror sci-fi shocker from director Jack Arnold, the maker of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, cannot perhaps attain the same excellent high standard of that one. But, even so, it is […]

Nov, 19

Rosebud * (1975, Peter O’Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman) – Classic Movie Review 6269

Director Otto Preminger’s 1975 terrorist thriller film tells the spectacularly dud tale of wealthy girls abducted by Arabs from the titular yacht Rosebud. A Palestinian terrorist group is responsible. Though more or less a total failure, the […]

Nov, 19

Daddy’s Home 2 * (2017, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini, John Cena) – Movie Review

If you want to put yourself in a bad mood before Christmas, this is an even better bet than A Bad Moms Christmas. A dismally unfunny, slapstick, sentimental script sinks this wretched seasonal sequel to […]

Nov, 19

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