Derek Winnert

Gambling Ship ** (1933, Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 10,402

Directors Louis J Gasnier and Max Marcin’s slightly soggy 1933 mob tale Gambling Ship stars Cary Grant in one of his least known movies as retired gambling boss Ace Corbin, who is caught between warring […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

The Game **** (1997, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker) – Classic Movie Review 10,401

Director David Fincher’s exciting and stylish 1997 American puzzle thriller The Game stars an ideally cast Michael Douglas as very wealthy San Francisco investment banker Nicholas Van Orton, given a mysterious gift for his 48th […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

The Great White Hope **** (1970, James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Hal Holbrook, R G Armstrong, Beah Richards, Chester Morris, Robert Webber, Moses Gunn) – Classic Movie Review 10,400

James Earl Jones gives a knockout performance as the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion, in Martin Ritt’s 1970 drama film The Great White Hope. Director Martin Ritt’s 1970 drama film The Great White Hope […]

Oct, 10

Le Toubib [The Medic] ** (1979, Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau) – Classic Movie Review 10,399

Director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1979 Le Toubib [The Medic] stars Alain Delon as famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée, who was left by his wife a month ago, and becomes an army doctor in a movable hospital just […]

Oct, 10

The Choirboys * (1977, Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr, Perry King) – Classic Movie Review 10,398

Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 The Choirboys is a raw and repulsive black-comic crime thriller about the delinquent members of an American police department in Los Angeles, the Wilshire Divison of the Los Angeles Police Department. […]

Oct, 09

Choice of Arms [Le Choix des Armes] *** (1981, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve) – Classic Movie Review 10,397

Director Alain Corneau’s 1981 Choice of Arms [Le Choix des Armes] stars Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu as the old retired robber hood Noel Durieux and the menacing young gangster Mickey, who fight it out […]

Oct, 09

The Brother from Another Planet *** (1984, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,396

Writer-director John Sayles’s entertaining, satirical 1984 sci-fi comedy The Brother from Another Planet is about a mute alien extra-terrestrial brother (Joe Morton) from another planet who arrives in Harlem, where he impresses the community and […]

Oct, 09

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