Derek Winnert

The Tartars [I Tartari] *** (1961, Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 2668

Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]

Jul, 06 · in Reviews

Jane Eyre **** (1943, Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2670

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1943 movie is an impressively powerful and moody American version of the Charlotte Brontë classic about the Victorian orphan who becomes a governess in a strange Yorkshire household at Thornfield Hallruled over by […]

Jul, 05 · in Reviews

Jane Eyre *** (1996, William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Joan Plowright, Richard Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 2671

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 classic novel is rather flat, un-dynamic and un-vibrant. Although the film is highly polished and has several redeeming features, including Charlotte Gainsbourg’s stellar performance as Jane […]

Jul, 05

Tarzan **** (1999, voices of Tony Goldwyn, Alex D Linz, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 2669

Directed by Chris Buck and Kevin Lima, the 1999 Tarzan is Walt Disney’s last box office triumph of its renaissance period before its decline in the early 2000s. Phil Collins won an Oscar and a Golden Globe […]

Jul, 05

The Hunchback of Notre Dame *** (1982, Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Robert Powell, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 2667

Taking a trick or two out of Charles Laughton’s book, Anthony Hopkins greatly impresses as the hunchback Notre Dame Cathedral bellringer Quasimodo in director Michael Tuchner’s lavish, starry and highly entertaining 1982 British-based TV movie […]

Jul, 05

The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame de Paris] *** (1956, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2666

Anthony Quinn (as the hunchback Notre Dame Cathedral bellringer Quasimodo) and Gina Lollobrigida (as the gypsy dancing girl Esmeralda whom he silently loves) light up Jean Delannoy’s 1956 French version of the Victor Hugo classic […]

Jul, 05

The Hunchback of Notre Dame *** (1996, voices of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline) – Classic Movie Review 2665

It’s perhaps a bold and surprise project to adapt the 1831 Victor Hugo classic into an animated feature. But directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s 1996 effort proves an effective, extremely well-done, highly entertaining Disney […]

Jul, 04

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