Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Beat the Devil **** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,664

John Huston’s quirky and likable 1953 comedy action adventure classic film Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the go-between for a gang of uranium racketeers who want to exploit land in Africa. […]

Jul, 04

Five Graves to Cairo **** (1943, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 2663

Director Billy Wilder’s dynamic 1943 World War Two wartime suspense thriller is set in June 1942 in the North African desert where a small, isolated Saharan hotel inn named the Empress of Britain is owned by […]

Jul, 04

The Major and the Minor **** (1942, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 2662

The Viennese immigrant Billy Wilder finally fulfils his ambition to direct his first American movie in 1942 in this highly enjoyable, bubbly vintage comedy, based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. Ginger Rogers gives […]

Jul, 03

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