Derek Winnert

Laura Lansing Slept Here *** (1988, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 10,374

Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1988 made-for-TV comedy Laura Lansing Slept Here provides a tailor-made role for Katharine Hepburn, playing Laura Lansing, a character much like herself, an indomitable old novelist who, when told by her agent […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

This Can’t Be Love ** (1994, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Quinn, Jason Bateman, Jami Gertz) – Classic Movie Review 10,373

Director Anthony Harvey’s entertaining enough 1994 made-for-TV drama This Can’t Be Love stars the good and true Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Quinn, who do it one more time as ancient film stars with some fire […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

Love Among the Ruins *** (1975, Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely) – Classic Movie Review 10,372

Director George Cukor’s lovely, prestigious, award-winning 1975 American made-for-TV Edwardian period romantic comedy film Love Among the Ruins stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, who light it up grandly. It premiered on the ABC TV […]

Oct, 01

The Corn Is Green *** (1979, Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 10,371

Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]

Oct, 01

The Water Babies **½ (1978, James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson, Tommy Pendler, Samantha Gates) – Classic Movie Review 10,370

The Charles Kingsley classic novel about the underwater adventures of a Victorian chimney-sweep 12-year-old boy called Tom (Tommy Pender) is filmed by the actor Lionel Jeffries as part live action, part animation. The young sweep […]

Sep, 30

The Watchmaker of St Paul [L’Horloger de Saint-Paul] **** (1974, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis) – Classic Movie Review 10,369

Director Bertrand Tavernier’s extremely satisfying 1974 début French film The Watchmaker of St Paul [L’Horloger de Saint-Paul] [The Clockmaker of St Paul], which won the Special Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in […]

Sep, 30

Water ** (1985, Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Maureen Lipman) – Classic Movie Review 10,368

Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s 1985 British film Water is a feeble Ealing Studios-style comedy, with good players, perhaps encouraged by the thinness of the script, to be too generous with the scale of their performances. […]

Sep, 30

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