Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Uncategorized

Tenue de Soirée *** (1986, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) – Classic Movie Review 10,560

Writer-director Bertrand Blier’s 1986 crime comedy drama Tenue de Soirée [Evening Dress] [Ménage] stars Gérard Depardieu as a rough-trade bisexual robber who talks a couple (Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) into a threesome and a crime. This […]

Nov, 18

Term of Trial *** (1962, Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 10,559

The compelling 1962 British realist drama film Term of Trial is about a student (Sarah Miles) who develops a crush on her schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier), leading him into serious trouble. ‘I always knew she was […]

Nov, 18

God’s Little Acre **** (1958, Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Vic Morrow, Tina Louise, Michael Landon) – Classic Movie Review 10,558

The 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel about a Depression-era Georgia farming family is faithfully translated in the steamy, stormingly acted 1958 drama God’s Little Acre. ‘Love! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, Riotous In the Heat of a […]

Nov, 18

The Fastest Gun Alive *** (1956, Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 10,557

The Fastest Gun Alive belongs to Cross Creek storekeeper George Temple (Glenn Ford), who, although he wants to hand up his holster, has to prove his gun speed again and again after three bank robbers […]

Nov, 18

Gun Glory *** (1957, Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland) – Classic Movie Review 10,556

After Rhonda Fleming had the female lead in John Sturges’s classic Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), she supported Stewart Granger in a much lesser, though still acceptable item, Gun Glory at MGM, a 1957 […]

Nov, 17

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