Derek Winnert

Beethoven *** (1992, Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones) – Classic Movie Review 11,226

Director Brian Levant’s 1992 comedy Beethoven stars Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt and Dean Jones. Two great big loveable fluffy things, Grodin and a giant St Bernard dog, make sweet music together as the odd couple […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

Bleak Moments **** (1971, Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan) – Classic Movie Review 11,225

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s promising, distinguished first film Bleak Moments (1971) is an often affecting, sometimes harrowing, occasionally funny slice of life in South London, where secretary Sylvia (Anne Raitt) ekes out a bleak and pointless […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

A Majority of One * (1961, Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton) – Classic Movie Review 11,224

‘Most honorable screen smash!’ ‘That joyful hit of the stage is the big, bright delight of the screen.’ ‘It’s even funnier than the play!’ ‘The heart-warmingest picture under the rising sun! The happiest pairing of […]

May, 20

Five Finger Exercise * (1962, Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins, Maximilian Schell, Richard Beymer) – Classic Movie Review 11,223

Director Daniel Mann’s 1962 film Five Finger Exercise stars Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins, Maximilian Schell, and Richard Beymer. Pretentious mother Louise Harington (Rosalind Russell), unfeeling father Stanley Harrington (Jack Hawkins), sensitive son Philip Harrington (Richard […]

May, 19

Miracle in Soho * (1957, John Gregson, Belinda Lee, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,222

Director Julian Amyes’s 1957 Eastman Color romantic drama Miracle in Soho is set in a central London fictional Soho street called St Anthony’s Lane, where a team of road workers arrives to dig up the […]

May, 19

Clash by Night [Escape by Night] *** (1963, Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Peter Sallis, Alan Wheatley, Vanda Godsell, John Arnatt) – Classic Movie Review 11,221

Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Peter Sallis, Alan Wheatley, and John Arnatt star in the 1963 British black and white crime thriller Clash by Night. Crooks hijack a bus transporting criminals to jail to […]

May, 19

The Duke Wore Jeans ** (1958, Tommy Steele, June Laverick, Michael Medwin, Alan Wheatley, Eric Pohlmann, Noel Hood) – Classic Movie Review 11,220

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1958 black and white musical comedy The Duke Wore Jeans is produced by Peter Rogers, is written by Norman Hudis, and stars Tommy Steele and June Laverick. The Carry On writer-producer-director team […]

May, 18

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