Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

There Was a Young Lady ** (1953, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Sydney Tafler, Bill Owen, Geraldine McEwan) – Classic Movie Review 11,646

Director Lawrence Huntington’s 1952 British black and white film There Was a Young Lady stars Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray, along with Bill Owen, Sydney Tafler and Geraldine McEwan. Denison plays David Walsh, a gem […]

Oct, 12

Uncle Vanya **** (1963, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Rosemary Harris, Joan Plowright, Sybil Thorndike) – Classic Movie Review 11,645

Director Stuart Burge’s splendid 1963 British film Uncle Vanya is a rousing, impeccably acted adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 classic play. It is a filmed version of the Chichester Festival production, directed by and starring […]

Oct, 12

The Dance of Death *** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Lang) – Classic Movie Review 11,644

Director David Giles’s 1969 drama The Dance of Death is a welcome film of the British National Theatre production of August Strindberg’s downbeat play Dödsdansen, with Laurence Olivier outstanding as the sick and malevolent artillery […]

Oct, 12

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