Derek Winnert

The Song of Bernadette **** (1943, Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J Cobb, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 4508

Director Henry King’s 1943 hit stars Jennifer Jones, who took Hollywood by storm as Bernadette Soubirous, the French peasant girl who has a religious vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858, and discovers […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Sorcerer ** (1977, Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri) – Classic Movie Review 4507

William Friedkin’s 1977 box-office flop American remake of the 1953 French classic thriller The Wages of Fear is an extravagant and sometimes impressive movie. Roy Scheider makes a useful hero, but Sorcerer is not a […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Lacombe, Lucien **** (1974, Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler) – Classic Movie Review 4506

Co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1974 French wartime drama stars Pierre Blaise as the French peasant teenager Lucien Lacombe who lives in small town in the south-west of France, while his father is a prisoner of war […]

Oct, 22

Le Souffle au Coeur [Dearest Love] [Murmur of the Heart] **** (1971, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi) – Classic Movie Review 4,505

Louis Malle’s 1971 French comedy-drama film Le Souffle au Coeur [Dearest Love] stars Lea Massari as an affectionate Italian-born mother and Benoît Ferreux as her close 14-year-old son, in 1954 Dijon, France. Writer-director Louis Malle’s tender 1971 middle-class coming-of-age comedy of manners […]

Oct, 22

The Sons of Katie Elder *** (1965, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Michael Anderson Jr, Earl Holliman, Martha Hyer, Jeremy Slate, James Gregory, Paul Fix, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 4504

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1965 old-style big-budget Western has a great cast and is thoroughly robust but it suffers from having a commonplace tale about the four macho-minded ranch owner sons of the frontier woman Katie […]

Oct, 22

Dragstrip Riot [The Reckless Age] ** (1958, Yvonne Lime, Fay Wray, Gary Clarke, John Garwood, Bob Turnbull, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 4503

Director David Bradley’s fun 1958 trash cult movie stars Gary Clarke, Yvonne Lime and Fay Wray, and is set in a beach community in Malibu, California. Clarke plays teenager Rick Martin who promises his mother he won’t get […]

Oct, 22

The Cool and the Crazy **½ (1958, Scott Marlowe, Gigi Perreau, Richard Bakalyan, Dickie Jones, Robert Hadden, Kenneth Plumb) – Classic Movie Review 4502

Director William Witney’s somewhat less than explosive 1958 kitsch cult thriller for American International Pictures is a juvenile delinquent movie exposé of the horrors of marijuana. Scott Marlowe stars as Bennie, a veteran of reform schools, who […]

Oct, 22

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