Derek Winnert

Le Chat [The Cat] **** (1971, Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal, Nicole Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 5552

Co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s compelling and disturbing 1971 film adaptation of a novel by Georges Simenon about a late middle-aged Parisian couple’s troubled, angst-ridden domestic life, which is characterised by a shared disgust and the […]

Jun, 04 · in Reviews

The Widow Couderc [La veuve Couderc] **** (1971, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier, Monique Chaumette) – Classic Movie Review 5551

Alain Delon and Simone Signoret are outstanding in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre‘s excellent 1971 French drama film adaptation of the 1942 Georges Simenon novel The Widow Couderc [La veuve Couderc]. As a drama, it is more […]

Jun, 04 · in Reviews

The Burned Barns [Les granges brûlées] *** (1973, Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet) – Classic Movie Review 5550

Co-writer/ director Jean Chapot’s 1973 French whodunit thriller puts infidelity, guilty secrets and family discords right to the forefront of its agenda. The setting is a large, lonely snowbound farm house, and, when a brutal […]

Jun, 04

Bullseye! * (1990, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland) – Classic Movie Review 5549

Michael Caine and Roger Moore pair up for the first time and form a tremendous British star double act as colourful conmen with cash flow problems and remarkable resemblances to dishonest scientists. Cue producer-director Michael […]

Jun, 04

The Island * (1980, Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass) – Classic Movie Review 5548

The Jaws writer Peter Benchley adapts his own novel and comes back together with the Jaws producers Richard D Zanuck and David Brown for a movie they would no doubt rather forget. Probably Michael Caine isn’t too […]

Jun, 04

The Hand (1981, Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 5547

This silly and really quite dreadful horror thriller flick from writer-director Oliver Stone is good for a laugh but wastes Michael Caine as cartoonist Jon Lansdale, a comic book artist who loses his drawing hand in […]

Jun, 04

Half Moon Street ** (1986, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 5546

Co-writer/ director Bob Swaim’s creaky old 1986 erotic thriller is intriguing but often quite tedious, straining the undeniable strong appeal of Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine, though it just about stays on the rails through […]

Jun, 04

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