Derek Winnert

Major Dundee **** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 5680

Charlton Heston gives a bravura turn as the tormented cavalry Major Amos Dundee and Richard Harris excels too as Captain Benjamin Tyreen, a dashing Confederate rebel, in director Sam Peckinpah’s troubled 1965 epic Western about […]

Jun, 28 · in Reviews

Two Flags West **** (1950, Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5679

Director Robert Wise’s stirring 1950 Western Two Flags West, based on a true incident that was also used in Major Dundee (1965), is splendidly acted, especially by Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler, Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, […]

Jun, 28 · in Reviews

Two for the Seesaw *** (1962, Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine) – Classic Movie Review 5678

‘All my life I never yet been able to beat up one lousy man.’ – Gittel ‘Mosca’. Sharing good chemistry, Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine shine in co-producer/ director Robert Wise’s enjoyable, though quite flimsy […]

Jun, 28

Island in the Sun ** (1957, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, John Williams, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 5,677

Hollywood struggles to bring the Alec Waugh bestseller about the troubled lives and inter-racial loves in the exotic Fifties British West Indies to the screen, in the then controversial 1957 drama film Island in the […]

Jun, 28

Jesus Christ Superstar *** (1973, Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Bob Bingham, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 5676

Director Norman Jewison’s greatly maligned 1973 movie of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical – or rock opera as there are no spoken lines and everything is sung – is valuable as an impressive attempt […]

Jun, 27

Carmen Jones **** (1954, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 5675

For its 1954 20th Century Fox film musical Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein’s renowned contemporary update on the Georges Bizet opera Carmen provides new, modernised lyrics and an African-American cast. It has ideal casting with Dorothy […]

Jun, 27

Porgy and Bess **** (1959, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters) – Classic Movie Review 5674

Director Otto Preminger’s 1959 film version of the George Gershwin musical about a poor young woman with a disreputable history and the crippled beggar who saves her from the bad guys of Catfish Row in […]

Jun, 26

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