Derek Winnert

Pascali’s Island **** (1988, Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 10,421

Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]

Oct, 15 · in Uncategorized

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ** (1957, Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Jean Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 10,420

The 1957 colour remake The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a stiff museum piece of a film, but John Gielgud makes something of the grand role of poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father. […]

Oct, 15 · in Uncategorized

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ***½ (1934, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,419

MGM’s 1934 Victorian England romantic drama film The Barretts of Wimpole Street showcases a great barnstorming turn by Charles Laughton as poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Director Sidney Franklin’s MGM […]

Oct, 15

Summer and Smoke *** (1961, Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, John McIntire, Pamela Tiffin, Thomas Gomez, Earl Holliman, Lee Patrick, Malcolm Atterbury) – Classic Movie Review 10,418

Director Peter Glenville’s fiery 1962 drama of repressed love Summer and Smoke offers more Tennessee Williams Southern poetic passion, with Geraldine Page grabbing her chance to repeat her off-Broadway role as a hurt and fading […]

Oct, 15

Le Passage [The Passage] * (1986, Alain Delon, Christine Boisson, Jean-Luc Moreau, Daniel Emilfork) – Classic Movie Review 10,417

Alain Delon plays a peace-loving animator film-maker killed in an accident and involved in a supernatural game with Death (Daniel Emilfork), in director René Manzor’s bizarre 1986 French fantasy film Le Passage [The Passage]. The […]

Oct, 15

Beat Girl *** (1960, David Farrar, Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 10,416

Director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 exploitation drama Beat Girl [Wild for Kicks] is a rare British teen picture from this late-50s, early 60s period, about a rebellious teenage girl (Gillian Hills) who resents her attractive, […]

Oct, 14

The Party’s Over ** (1965, Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn, Louise Sorel, Katherine Woodville, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 10,415

Director Guy Hamilton’s 1965 black and white drama The Party’s Over is a now faded and tame, perhaps rather offensive and daft-seeming exposé of London beatnik culture, which means well and has its positive side, […]

Oct, 14

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