Derek Winnert

That’ll Be the Day **** (1973, David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Robert Lindsay, Billy Fury, Keith Moon, Rosalind Ayres, Deborah Watling) – Classic Movie Review 5453

Director Claude Whatham’s 1973 British pop musical drama is thoroughly enjoyable, and deeply old-fashioned, with a thrilling nostalgic vintage soundtrack. David Essex gives an appealing, expert star performance as Jim MacLaine, a troubled, restless working […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

The Boy Friend ***** (1971, Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Tommy Tune, Barbara Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 5,446

Twiggy captivates in her film début as Polly Browne in the 1971 British film The Boy Friend, Ken Russell’s delightful homage to Thirties Hollywood musicals. Writer-director Ken Russell brings Sandy Wilson’s enchanting show spoofing Twenties […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

The Music Lovers **** (1970, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Gable, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 5445

Director Ken Russell and screen-writer Melvyn Bragg tell the story of poor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) in this lusty 1970 British movie. Russell described it as ‘the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a […]

May, 13

Mahler *** (1973, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin) – Classic Movie Review 5,444

Ken Russell’s 1973 film biopic of the composer Mahler is one of his typically extravagant movies. Robert Powell is impressive as a Gustav Mahler obsessed with love and career. Georgina Hale won the 1975 BAFTA […]

May, 13

The Great Waldo Pepper *** (1975, Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 5443

Director George Roy Hill’s 1975 period adventure movie showcases Robert Redford at his matinée idol peak, all gleaming and dashing, as a daredevil plane acrobat called Waldo Pepper. Hill, Redford’s director on The Sting (1973) and […]

May, 12

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ** (1976, Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp) – Classic Movie Review 5442

Director Don Taylor’s 1976 comedy Western is an amiable but uneven entertainment. Stars Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed and Robert Culp and its easy-going nature make up for the general air of slackness. Lee Marvin does […]

May, 12

Alice in the Cities [Alice in den Städten] **** (1974, Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer) – Classic Movie Review 5441

Writer-director Wim Wenders’s 1974 German drama tells a clever, bittersweet parable story about the relationship between a German journalist Phil Winter (Rudiger Vogler) and a little nine-year old girl called Alice (Yella Röttlander) he gets stuck […]

May, 12

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