Derek Winnert

Lost Horizon (1973, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 10,524

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]

Nov, 10 · in Reviews

The Abdication * (1974, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 10,523

Queen Christina: ‘I, Christina, Sovereign of Sweden, do hereby abdicate my throne.’ ‘She shook the Vatican like an earthquake. Shocking whispers had preceded her. Debauchery. Unspeakable acts. A reign of scandal… And now she had […]

Nov, 10 · in Reviews

Mulholland Falls **** (1996, Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Baldwin, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 10,522

Mulholland Falls (1996) is a great-looking, fine neo noir crime thriller with a fine cast to make it work. Nick Nolte stars as Max Hoover, with Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz […]

Nov, 10

Curly Top *** (1935, Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 10,521

Director Irving Cummings’s 1935 film is Curly Top, and, with that title at that time, who else could it be but Shirley Temple? The moppet is winsome in this mild reworking of Jean Webster’s novel […]

Nov, 09

Players ** (1979, Ali MacGraw, Dean Paul Martin, Maximilian Schell) – Classic Movie Review 10,520

Director Anthony Harvey’s 1979 film Players is an old-hat, ultra-soapy romantic drama about crossed hearts and tennis racquets. It is smoothly enough done, though, with the athletic Dean Paul Martin convincing looking and giving an […]

Nov, 09

Eagle’s Wing **** (1979, Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Harvey Keitel, Stéphane Audran, John Castle, Caroline Langrishe) – Classic Movie Review 10,519

Director Anthony Harvey’s 1979 impressive oddity Eagle’s Wing is a British-made allegorical Western, with an outstanding cast, about a trapper, Pike (Martin Sheen), and a Kiowa Indian brave, White Bull (Sam Waterston), obsessively fighting over […]

Nov, 09

Dying Young ** (1991, Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D’Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, Ellen Burstyn) – Classic Movie Review 10,518

Julia Roberts at the height of her Pretty Woman popularity misses the target as Hilary O’Neil, a private nurse house-help for dying 20-something Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott), a young man suffering from blood cancer. She […]

Nov, 09

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