Derek Winnert

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? ***½ (1975, director Philippe Mora) – Classic Movie Review 11,653

The 1975 documentary film Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is an extremely well done and enjoyable view of America in the Great Depression era, built up (by French Australian film director Philippe Mora, working […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

Bronco Bullfrog ***½ (1970, Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd) Classic Movie Review 11,652

Writer-director Barney Platts-Mills’s 1970 British black and white film Bronco Bullfrog (83 minutes, 35 mm) is a commendable and compelling British low-budget drama (£17,000), showing in realist style life as it was in 1970 for […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

Inchon (1981, Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 11,651

‘LOVE. DESTINY. HEROES. War Changes Everything’ Director Terence Young’s 1981 epic war film Inchon re-creates the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War and is reputedly one of the most expensive films and one of the […]

Oct, 16

The Goddess **** (1958, Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Patty Duke) – Classic Movie Review 11,650

The 1958 American black and white drama film The Goddess stars Kim Stanley, who is wonderful in her film debut in writer Paddy Chayefsky’s powerful indictment of the Hollywood star system, loosely based on the […]

Oct, 15

Life for Ruth *** (1962, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 11,649

Basil Dearden’s well-meaning and sincere 1962 British drama Life for Ruth helped caused the demise of the notable Allied Film Makers company. Director Basil Dearden’s well-meaning and sincere 1962 British drama Life for Ruth [Walk […]

Oct, 15

That Championship Season *** (1982, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 11,648

Writer-director Jason Miller’s 1982 drama That Championship Season stars a grand line-up in Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen and Paul Sorvino. It is an impressive and touching, though theatrical and flat film […]

Oct, 14

There Was a Crooked Man… (1970, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates Burgess Meredith, John Randolph, Lee Grant, Arthur O’Connell, Martin Gabel, Michael Blodgett, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 11,647

The 1970 film There Was a Crooked Man… is an agreeable, underrated black comedy Western, with Henry Fonda as a lawman-turned-warden dogging an outlaw (Kirk Douglas), who has broken out of jail to find his […]

Oct, 13

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