Derek Winnert

The Mating Game ** (1959, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 11,705

H E Bates’s The Darling Buds of May go USA with the fairly lively and appealing 1959 MGM comedy film The Mating Game. Paul Douglas scores as crusty Pop Larkin and Debbie Reynolds twinkles prettily […]

Nov, 05 · in Reviews

Les Maudits [The Damned] **** (1947, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti, Paul Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 11,704

Director René Clément’s 1947 French film Les Maudits [The Damned] is an impressive, well-made and exciting thriller, set at the end of World War Two in 1945, as Germany is losing the war, about a […]

Nov, 05 · in Reviews

The Maverick Queen *** (1956, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie, Emil Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 11,703

Director Joseph Kane’s 1955 Western film The Maverick Queen is filmed in Naturama widescreen and Trucolor, and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie and Emil Meyer. […]

Nov, 04

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf * (1991, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus Michael Grüber) – Classic Movie Review 11,702

Director Leos Carax’s 1991 French film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf tells a simple banal love story about a young Parisian artist (Juliette Binoche) who is losing her sight and takes to the streets where she pairs […]

Nov, 04

Mauvais Sang ** (1986, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy) – Classic Movie Review 11,701

The 1986 film Mauvais Sang [The Night Is Young] [Bad Blood] is a weird, dark gangster crime thriller from France’s 80s wunderkind writer-director Leos Carax (in his second film after his 1984 first feature Boy […]

Nov, 04

Your Witness [Eye Witness] *** (1950, Robert Montgomery, Leslie Banks, Patricia Cutts, Felix Aylmer, Andrew Cruickshank) – Classic Movie Review 11,700

Director/ star Robert Montgomery’s proficient and enjoyable 1950 British black and white thriller Your Witness [Eye Witness] is a tidily made, nicely acted courtroom drama and culture clash movie. Montgomery stars as leading American lawyer […]

Nov, 03

Knightriders ***½ (1981, Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman, Christine Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 11,699

Writer-director George A Romero takes time off from his zombie pictures to direct the 1981 personal drama film Knightriders, a modern-day knights in armour adventure about a travelling renaissance fair troupe, in which motorbikes replace […]

Nov, 03

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