Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Stambul Garden [Räuberhände] *** (2021, Emil von Schönfels, Mekyas Mulugeta, Katharina Behrens) – Classic Movie Review 12,518

Emil von Schönfels stars in director Ilker Çatak’s involving 2021 coming-of-age film Stambul Garden [Räuberhände] as German teenage boy Janik, whose friendship with his best friend Samuel (Mekyas Mulugeta) is sorely tested by a crazy, […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

The Greek Tycoon (1978, Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset) – Classic Movie Review 12,517

Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset star agreeably in director J Lee Thompson’s turgid and trashy 1978 American biographical romantic drama film The Greek Tycoon, written by Mort Fine, so the script should be fine, but […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

The Green Scarf ** (1954, Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Richard O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 12,516

The 1954 British mystery thriller film The Green Scarf stars Michael Redgrave as a bearded French lawyer who defends a deaf, dumb and blind novelist (Kieron Moore) accused of killing a man in a seemingly […]

May, 26

Green Dolphin Street ** (1947, Lana Turner, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 12,515

MGM’s 1947 historical disaster film Green Dolphin Street is an over-busy and unconvincing melodrama set in 19th-century New Zealand, where sisters Lana Turner and Donna Reed are vying for Richard Hart, romantic rival to Van […]

May, 26

The Green Cockatoo *** (1937, John Mills, René Ray, Robert Newton, Charles Oliver, Bruce Seton) – Classic Movie Review 12,514

The entertaining 1937 British crime drama film The Green Cockatoo stars John Mills as a song and dance man trying to avenge his brother (Robert Newton)’s death at the hands of vicious crooks. ‘She Lost […]

May, 26

Lie With Me [Arrête avec tes mensonges] *** (2022, Guillaume De Tonquédec, Victor Belmondo, Jérémy Gillet, Julien De Saint Jean) – Classic Movie Review 12,513

Olivier Peyon’s moving, powerfully emotional 2022 French drama film Lie With Me [Arrête avec tes mensonges] stars Guillaume De Tonquédec as a gay novelist who returns to his home town after many years and meets […]

May, 25

Esther and the King ** (1960, Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O’Dea) – Classic Movie Review 12,512

Raoul Walsh’s American-Italian 1960 biblical epic film Esther and the King stars Joan Collins, no less, as the Jewish heroine Esther, who marries the recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus (Richard Egan) to help her people […]

May, 24

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