Derek Winnert

The Raid *** (1954, Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,447

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]

Oct, 22 · in Uncategorized

Radio On *** (1979, David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff) – Classic Movie Review 10,446

The 1979 music mystery drama Radio On is a chilly but clever road movie, in which a radio station disc jockey called Robert (played by David Beames) drives from London to Bristol to investigate his […]

Oct, 22 · in Uncategorized

Unnatural Causes *** (1993, Roy Marsden, Simon Chandler, Kenneth Colley, Mel Martin, Bill Nighy, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 10,445

The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]

Oct, 21

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman *** (1982, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard) – Classic Movie Review 10,444

Director Christopher Petit’s 1982 crime mystery thriller An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is an intriguing and largely successful if too tricksy film version of P D James’s twisting 1972 novel featuring her female detective […]

Oct, 21

Three Into Two Won’t Go *** (1969, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft) – Classic Movie Review 10,443

Director Peter Hall’s 1969 British drama Three into Two Won’t Go stars Rod Steiger as Steve Howard, a businessman whose unsteady marriage to his wife Frances (Claire Bloom) is tipped over into chaos by a […]

Oct, 21

Up on the Roof *** (1997, Billy Carter, Clare Cathcart, Adrian Lester) – Classic Movie Review 10,442

Director Simon Moore’s appealing 1997 British comedy drama with songs Up on the Roof, based on the award-winning stage play by Simon Moore and Jane Prowse, who also write the screenplay, is a tuneful, funny, […]

Oct, 21

Up in the Cellar ** (1970, Wes Stern, Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Judy Pace) – Classic Movie Review 10,441

Wes Stern stars as Colin Slade, a college boy with a winning way with women, in writer-director Theodore J Flicker’s cheap-looking, sometimes sharp satire on sex and social mores, the 1970 comedy Up in the […]

Oct, 20

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