Derek Winnert

The Long Arm [The Third Key] **** (1956, Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 5,151

Ealing Studios’ engrossing 1956 British crime thriller film The Long Arm stars Jack Hawkins in one of his quintessential roles as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of safe-breaking jobs. Director Charles Frend’s 1956 […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne **** (1987, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Prunella Scales, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean, Ian McNeice) – Classic Movie Review 5150

Director Jack Clayton’s 1987 best of British drama provides lovely showcase for impeccable, tour-de-force acting from Maggie Smith as Judith Hearne. Smith won the 1989 BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress. Judith Hearne is the lonely, penniless […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

The Lonely Guy ** (1984, Steve Martin, Robyn Douglass, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 5149

Steve Martin stars as struggling New York greetings card writer Larry Hubbard who is forced to follow the lifestyle of a single Lonely Guy when his girlfriend Danielle (Robyn Douglass) throws him out. He is […]

Mar, 13

Lonely Are the Brave **** (1962, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands) – Classic Movie Review 5148

Kirk Douglas triumphs in some of his best acting in director David Miller’s intense and brooding 1962 pursuit Western Lonely Are the Brave. Douglas gives a stalwart, practised and ultra-confident performance as Jack Burns, a […]

Mar, 13

Lone Star State of Mind ** (2002, Joshua Jackson, Jamie King, Matthew Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5147

Joshua Jackson stars in director David Semel’s 2002 movie as a young Texas small-town mechanic, who lands in trouble when he has to bail out his fiancée Baby (Jamie King)’s dim cousin Junior (D J […]

Mar, 13

Lone Star **** (1996, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Morton, Clifton James, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J Lang, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 5146

Writer-director John Sayles’s beautifully written 1996 murder-mystery neo Western thriller is long, complex and satisfying, and is one of the cult film-maker’s best movies. Sayles’s screenplay tackles the tensions in a Texas border small town. Success is spearheaded by Chris Cooper’s […]

Mar, 13

Lone Star *** (1952, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Lionel Barrymore, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 5,145

The 1952 large-scale Western film Lone Star stars Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, and is set against Texas’s battle to be independent. Ava said: ‘Clark, you do realise that this dog of a movie we […]

Mar, 13

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