Derek Winnert

The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur] ***** (1953, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot) – Classic Movie Review 927

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s awesome sweaty-palmed, uber-tense, ultra-tough 1953 action thriller established his international reputation. It also turned Yves Montand into a star as a member of the desperate quartet (Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and […]

Mar, 17 · in Reviews

Wag the Dog ***½ (1997, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Dennis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 926

Director Barry Levinson’s 1997 comedy drama stars Dustin Hoffman, who steals the show as a nervy, egomaniac Hollywood film producer whom White House spin doctor Robert De Niro needs to help him bale the American […]

Mar, 17 · in Reviews

Guys and Dolls **** (1955, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine) – Classic Movie Review 925

The four-Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz films one of Broadway’s finest, all-time-great shows, based on the famous short stories by Damon Runyon. He turns it into a genially pleasing, attractively easy-going, if none too cinematic […]

Mar, 17

Copland [Cop Land] **** (1997, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro) – Classic Movie Review 910

Writer-director James Mangold’s 1997 thinking-person’s thriller finds Sylvester Stallone giving his best display of acting for years as Sheriff Freddy Heflin, a tubby, hard-of-hearing New Jersey cop who uncovers a deadly web of police corruption […]

Mar, 17

The Last Detail ***** (1973, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Carol Kane, Clifton James, Michael Moriarty, Gilda Radner, Nancy Allen) – Classic Movie Review 924

Jack Nicholson stars in 1973 with Otis Young as US Navy lifer veterans who are commissioned to escort a young pilferer named Meadows to the brig in Portsmouth. His terrible crime was to try to […]

Mar, 16

Hercules Unchained [Ercole e la regina di Lidia] **½ (1959, Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez, Primo Carnera) – Classic Movie Review 923

Co-writer/director Pietro Francisci’s inevitable 1959 sequel to his and Italy’s 1957 international blockbuster hit Hercules brings muscleman Steve Reeves back with Sylva Koscina’s Iole, now the bride of Hercules, to fight the wicked Queen Omphale of […]

Mar, 16

Hercules [Le fatiche di Ercole] *** (1958, Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrani, Gianna Maria Canale) – Classic Movie Review 922

Director-producer Pietro Francisci’s 1957 film Hercules [Le fatiche di Ercole], inspired by the Greek legend and the epic poem Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius [Apollonius of Rhodes], is the first in an international hit series of Italian […]

Mar, 16

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