Derek Winnert

The Desert Rats *** (1953, Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 5408

Director Robert Wise’s standard studio-bound 1953 film dramatisation of the World War Two Tobruk campaign is a fairly involving war action adventure, thanks to the well-crafted 20th Century Fox studio production, the stalwart British players […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

The Desert Fox **** (1951, James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 5407

James Mason rejoices in one of his most deservedly celebrated roles as Nazi General Erwin Johannes Rommel in the exciting 1951 World War Two drama film The Desert Fox. Director Henry Hathaway’s 1951 war movie […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

The Journey **** (2016, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, Toby Stephens, John Hurt) – Movie Review

Director Nick Hamm’s 2016 drama The Journey is most entertaining and informative, surprisingly so, given the subject matter. It is a very good, satisfying mix of politics and personal drama. Timothy Spall is great as […]

May, 07

The Appaloosa [Southwest to Sonora] *** (1966, Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon) – Classic Movie Review 5406

‘Southwest to Sonora rode the lustful, the lawless… to live on the edge of violence!’ Marlon Brando stars in The Appaloosa [Southwest to Sonora] (1966) as Matt Fletcher, a Mexican-American buffalo hunter cowboy, who vows […]

May, 06

Desert Hearts **** (1985, Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Dean Butler, Jeffrey Tambor, Gwen Welles) – Classic Movie Review 5405

Producer-director Donna Deitch’s triumphant 1985 lesbian drama Desert Hearts is wonderfully stirring, romantic and heartwarming. Based on the novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule, Natalie Cooper’s screenplay is about 30-something New York woman […]

May, 06

Claire of the Moon ***½ (1992, Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith McDevitt) – Classic Movie Review 5404

Writer-director Nicole Conn’s 1992 drama stars Trisha Todd as promiscuous satirist writer Claire who shares a cabin with a sex behaviour author at the annual women’s writers’ retreat at a small northern American coastal spot. There […]

May, 06

A Civil Action **** (1998, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 5403

Writer-director Steven Zaillian’s excellent 1998 legal drama comes out fighting and wins in a knockout. It stars John Travolta as tenacious plaintiff’s attorney Jan Schlichtmann and Robert Duvall as his canny old opponent, Jerry Facher, the […]

May, 06

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