Derek Winnert

The Magnificent Matador [The Brave and the Beautiful] ** (1955, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Manuel Rojas, Richard Denning, Thomas Gomez, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 11,235

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1955 romantic drama The Magnificent Matador [The Brave and the Beautiful] stars Anthony Quinn as Luís Santos, the star bullfighter coming to the end of his career and putting a young lad […]

May, 23 · in Uncategorized

Magnificent Obsession **** (1935, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Ralph Morgan, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 11,234

Universal’s 1935 black and white weepie romantic melodrama Magnificent Obsession is based on the 1929 novel by Lloyd C Douglas, and stars Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. ‘She HATED Him in self-defence… because she hungered […]

May, 23 · in Uncategorized

The Main Attraction * (1962, Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling, Kieron Moore, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 11,233

‘He’s In Trouble With That “Suzie Wong” Girl’ Director Daniel Petrie’s 1962 romance The Main Attraction stars clean-cut Pat Boone, in an unlikely piece of casting, as a sexy young American singer called Eddie, a […]

May, 23

Sammy Going South [A Boy Ten Feet Tall] *** (1963, Edward G Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings) – Classic Movie Review 11,232

‘Incredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers!’ Director Alexander Mackendrick’s 1963 adventure Sammy Going South [A Boy Ten Feet Tall] is based on the novel by W H Canaway and is a heartwarming […]

May, 22

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ** (1987, Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din, Roland Gift) – Classic Movie Review 11,231

Director Stephen Frears’s 1987 comedy drama Sammy and Rosie Get Laid stars Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber and Roland Gift. Thirty years on, former Indian government minister Rafi Rahman (Kapoor), returns for […]

May, 22

The Magic of Lassie *** (1978, James Stewart, Alice Faye, Mickey Rooney, Pernell Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 11,230

Director Don Chaffey’s 1978 The Magic of Lassie is a tuneful but tame musical reworking of the 1943 family favourite Lassie Come Home, with a story in which trade baron Jamison (Pernell Roberts) reclaiming Lassie […]

May, 22

The Brotherhood **** (1968, Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg, Murray Hamilton, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joe De Santiis) – Classic Movie Review 11,229

Martin Ritt’s 1968 Technicolor Mafia crime thriller film The Brotherhood stars Kirk Douglas, Irene Papas, Alex Cord and Luther Adler.  Director Martin Ritt’s 1968 Technicolor Mafia crime thriller film The Brotherhood stars Kirk Douglas as Frank Ginetta, a […]

May, 22

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