Derek Winnert

Sombrero *** (1953, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo, Cyd Charisse, Rick Jason, Nina Foch, Kurt Kasznar) – Classic Movie Review 10,567

Romance and drama down Mexico way are to the fore in three tales of frustrated love in director Norman Foster’s pleasingly peculiar 1953 Technicolor romantic musical Sombrero, based on Josefina Niggli’s book A Mexican Village. […]

Nov, 20 · in Uncategorized

Soft Beds, Hard Battles * (1974, Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand) – Classic Movie Review 10,566

The 1974  British comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles [Undercovers Hero] is set during the Nazi occupation of France. The Boulting Brothers’ brew of ancient jokes and antique routines results in uneasy entertainment, but there is […]

Nov, 19 · in Uncategorized

Sodom and Gomorrah ** (1962, Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimée, Rossana Podestà) – Classic Movie Review 10,565

Ah yes, ‘The Twin Citadels of Sin!’ ‘The cities that mocked the very name of God… The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder!’ Director Robert Aldrich’s costly 1962 Italian, French, US co-production Sodom and Gomorrah [Sodoma […]

Nov, 19

J W Coop **** (1971, Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare) – Classic Movie Review 10,564

The 1971 Western drama film J W Coop is a triumph for co-writer-producer-director Cliff Robertson, who also stars as the rodeo cowboy J W Coop who rides back to confront his kinfolks after a decade behind bars, […]

Nov, 19

The Honkers *** (1972, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens) Classic Movie Review 10,563

Director Steve Ihnat’s 1972 film The Honkers is an action comedy drama with a western setting, and stars James Coburn, who is compellingly amiable in a profile of a middle-ageing, philandering rodeo rider, Lew Lathrop. […]

Nov, 19

Terminus **** (1961, documentary, director John Schlesinger) – Classic Movie Review 10,562

John Schlesinger’s imaginative, classic 1961 documentary short Terminus, now poignantly dated, about a day in the life of London’s Waterloo station, was made for British Transport Films. It won the 1962 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Nov, 18

Teresa *** (1951, Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 10,561

Director Fred Zinnemann’s earnest 1951 MGM black and white drama Teresa stars John Ericson as GI Philip Cass, who serves in Italy during World War Two, marries an Italian girl and brings his new Italian wife […]

Nov, 18

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