Derek Winnert

A King in New York **** (1957, Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Dawn Addams, Oliver Johnston, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2550

Troubled writer-director-star Charles Chaplin satirises America in the witch-hunt era of the Fifties and his personal history in a story seen through the eyes of a disillusioned foreign ruler in New York. Chaplin plays the […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

Limelight ***** (1952, Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 2549

Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1952 drama with music Limelight is a beautiful film, incredibly poignant, extremely sentimental and nostalgic, but almost unbearably moving both for itself and as an encapsulation of the star’s life. The pairing […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

The Culpepper Cattle Co **** (1972, Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 2547

Director Dick Richards’s rousing 1972 Western stars the 17-year-old Gary Grimes as young farm-hand cowboy Ben Mockridge who buys a $4 pistol and talks tough trail boss Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) into hiring him […]

Jun, 01

Cul-De-Sac **** (1966, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 2548

Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran star as bumbling crooks on the lam in co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s startling, humorous and strange British black comedy shocker. The duo, one wounded and the other dying, take refuge at the Holy Island […]

Jun, 01

River of No Return **** (1954, Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig) – Classic Movie Review 2,546

Otto Preminger’s popular and enjoyable 1954 classic Western film River of No Return has the huge advantage of starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe, who strike quite a few sparks.  Director Otto Preminger’s popular and […]

May, 31

Rigoletto **** (1946, Tito Gobbi, Marcella Govoni, Mario Filippeschi, Giulio Neri, Lina Pagliughi) – Classic Movie Review 2545

Beautifully shot (in black and white by Anchise Brizzi), set and costumed (by Bruno Nofri), director Carmine Gallone’s 1946 film version of the Giuseppe Verdi opera favourite is extra fine. Tito Gobbi (1913-84) is extraordinary […]

May, 31

Il Postino [The Postman] **** (1994, Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta) – Classic Movie Review 2542

Director Michael Radford’s beautifully filmed 1994 romance stars Philippe Noiret as great, famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. This causes a huge increase in mail […]

May, 31

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