Derek Winnert

Born Yesterday ***** (1950, Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 1307

Director George Cukor’s 1950 comedy classic stars the scintillating Judy Holliday, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Billie Dawn, the delightfully ditzy showgirl mistress of brash and boorish millionaire junk-metal dealer Harry Brock (Broderick […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

Evita **** (1996, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce) – Classic Movie Review 1306

Director Alan Parker’s 1996 movie stars Madonna as Evita. Madonna scores a personal triumph in this splendidly lavish and swirling film adaptation of the 1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice West End and Broadway stage hit […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Evil Under the Sun *** (1982, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Diana Rigg, Nicholas Clay, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley) – Classic Movie Review 1,305

Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having […]

Jun, 07

Murder on the Orient Express **** (1974, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1304

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]

Jun, 07

The Prince of Tides ***½ (1991, Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Jason Gould, Jeroen Krabbé, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Melinda Dillon, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 1303

Producer-director-star Barbra Streisand’s troubled 1991 romance is an infuriating half-success of a movie, with enough good stuff to make it attractive and appealing, but also enough to suggest the much better movie it could have been. […]

Jun, 07

Harper [The Moving Target] **** (1966, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 1,302

The hard-boiled 1966 detective-mystery thriller film Harper [The Moving Target] casts Paul Newman in an ideal guise as Lew Harper, an archetypal Los Angeles private eye. Director Jack Smight’s hard-boiled American 1966 detective-mystery thriller film Harper […]

Jun, 07

Prince Valiant **** (1954, Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 1301

Three cheers for director Henry Hathaway’s vividly realized, brilliantly colourful 1954 sword-fighting historical adventure extravaganza. It stars a marvellous, on-form cast in Robert Wagner as a fresh-faced Viking Prince Valiant, James Mason as the villainous […]

Jun, 07

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