Derek Winnert

Ruby Cairo [Deception] ** (1992, Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 12,677

The 1992 thriller film Ruby Cairo [Deception] stars the appealing prospect of Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen. It flopped but gorgeous scenery – Vera Cruz, Cairo, Berlin, Athens – is lovingly shot in […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

RPM [Revolutions Per Minute] (1970, Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield) – Classic Movie Review 12,676

Stanley Kramer’s 1970 film RPM is set against the political turmoil of the 1960s, and stars Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret and Gary Lockwood. Hollywood tackles the time of revolt, with a script by the author of […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

Ruby **** (1992, Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn) – Classic Movie Review 12,675

The 1992 thriller film Ruby stars Danny Aiello in a satisfying portrait of small-time hood Jack Ruby, the owner of a tacky Dallas, Texas, burlesque nightclub, who takes on Candy Cane (Sherilyn Fenn) as his […]

Oct, 15

Ruby *** (1977, Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin, Roger Davis) – Classic Movie Review 12,674

Piper Laurie brings some considerable extra colour to Curtis Harrington’s already colourful, gory and just plain weird 1977 supernatural chiller film Ruby. Piper Laurie brings some considerable extra colour to Curtis Harrington’s already colourful, gory […]

Oct, 15

Strayed [Les Égarés] *** (2003, Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel) – Classic Movie Review 12,673

André Téchiné’s complex, precise 2003 French drama film Strayed [Les Égarés] stars Emmanuelle Béart as a widowed mother, who flees Nazi-occupied Paris with her children, saved by an itinerant teenage boy (Gaspard Ulliel).  Director André […]

Oct, 14

Anna Lucasta *** (1958, Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram) – Classic Movie Review 12,672

Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr and Rex Ingram make a fascinating star trio in the 1958 American drama film Anna Lucasta, an all-African-American version of Philip Yordan’s long-running 1944 stage play. Director Arnold Laven’s 1958 […]

Oct, 14

La Bataille du Rail [Battle of the Rails] ***** – (1946, Tony Laurent, Jean Daurand, Jean Clarieux, Jacques Desagneaux) Classic Movie Review 12,671

René Clément’s 1946 French war drama film La Bataille du Rail [Battle of the Rails] is a half-documentary, half-fictional account of World War Two resistance among courageous Breton railway workers (cheminots) in the French Resistance.  […]

Oct, 14

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