Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Spikes Gang **** (1974, Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, Arthur Hunnicutt, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 4,255

In one of just six films he made between 1971’s Summer of ’42 and Gus in 1976, Gary Grimes stars with Lee Marvin in the rousing 1974 Western film The Spikes Gang. ‘Three boys wanted […]

Aug, 28 · in Reviews

Always *** (1989, Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson, Audrey Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 4258

Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss loved director Victor Fleming’s 1944 MGM sentimental wartime Spencer Tracy fantasy film A Guy Named Joe so much that they remade it as Always. Spielberg’s pleasant remake is another sentimental […]

Aug, 28 · in Uncategorized

A Guy Named Joe **** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Ward Bond, Esther Williams, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 4257

Director Victor Fleming’s 1944 MGM sentimental wartime fantasy is much beloved of Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss, who remade it in 1989 as Always. Spencer Tracy stars as Major Pete Sandidge, a fighter pilot who […]

Aug, 28

Gus *** (1976, Ed Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Tom Bosley, Dick Van Patten) – Classic Movie Review 4256

Gary Grimes’s six and last movie is this cult Disney film Gus (1976), about a mule that can kick 100 yard field goals, where he plays Andy Petrovic. Director Vincent McEveety’s 1976 slapstick family comedy is […]

Aug, 28

Summer of ’42 **** (1971, Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant) – Classic Movie Review 4252

Young Gary Grimes (aged 15) falls for older Jennifer O’Neill (22), who is a war bride, on the holiday resort of Nantucket Island off New England during World War Two. Day-dreaming virginal youth Hermie, spending the […]

Aug, 27

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams **** (1973, Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Ron Rickards, Dori Brenner, Tresa Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 4251

Joanne Woodward is superb as Rita, a middle aged, menopausal New York City homemaking mother who falls apart when her mother (Thirties star Sylvia Sidney in her first film for 17 years) dies suddenly. Rita’s emotional […]

Aug, 27

Summer with Monika [Sommaren med Monika] **** (1953, Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen) – Classic Movie Review 4250

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s sensitive but unsentimental account of the decline of a teenage love affair between the wild 17-year-old girl Monika (Harriet Andersson) and the 19-year-old youth Harry Lund (Lars Ekborg) is based on the novel […]

Aug, 27

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