Derek Winnert

Song of Freedom *** (1936, Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy) – Classic Movie Review 11,286

Majestic bass Paul Robeson warbles his way through this fascinating, heartwarming, if long dated, tale of Johnny Zinga, a London dock worker who is turned by his encounter with an impresario into an opera star […]

Jun, 08 · in Uncategorized

American Flyers *** (1985, Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong) – Classic Movie Review 11,285

American Flyers (1985) stars Kevin Costner, who gets on his bike for screen-writer Steve Tesich’s lower-gear follow-up to his 1979 cycle movie Breaking Away. The yarn about two brothers (Costner as the fit sibling, sports […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

American Friends *** (1991, Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina, David Calder) – Classic Movie Review 11,284

Michael Palin stars as the Reverend Francis Ashby, an Oxford don, who meets two holiday-making American girls in Switzerland, Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), who proceed to […]

Jun, 08

The Last Safari ** (1967, Kaz Garas, Stewart Granger, Gabriella Licudi, Johnny Sekka, Liam Redmond, Eugene Deckers) – Classic Movie Review 11,283

Producer-director Henry Hathaway’s 1967 British-made adventure The Last Safari is based on the novel Gilligan’s Last Elephant by Gerald Hanley, and stars Stewart Granger, Kaz Garas and Gabriella Licudi. Jaundiced white big game hunter Miles […]

Jun, 08

Last Rites ** (1988, Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera) – Classic Movie Review 11,282

Writer/ producer/ director Donald P Bellisario’s 1987 crime action thriller Last Rites stars Tom Berenger as Father Michael, a virginal New York priest who offers the protection of his church to exotic Mexican dancer Angela […]

Jun, 08

Tommy the Toreador ** (1959, Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Eric Sykes, Bernard Cribbins) – Classic Movie Review 11,281

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1959 British Technicolor film Tommy the Toreador [Rock around the World] is a reasonable comedy-musical vehicle for likeable, energetic pop star Tommy Steele as a poor seaman in Spain who takes […]

Jun, 07

Sinners in the Sun ** (1932, Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Walter Byron, Adrienne Ames, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 11,280

Director Alexander Hall’s 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Pictures black and white film Sinners in the Sun is a slight, largely unamusing Thirties romantic comedy drama with a working-class pair, New York City dress shop model […]

Jun, 07

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