Derek Winnert

The Amazing Mr Blunden **** (1972, Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Diana Dors, James Villiers, David Lodge, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 10,289

Writer-director Lionel Jeffries’s 1972 family mystery fantasy film The Amazing Mr Blunden is a charming adaptation of Antonia Barber’s much loved novel The Ghosts, painstakingly directed by the evergreen Jeffries (The Railway Children). Two 1918 Camden […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

The Ballad of Josie ** (1967, Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, William Talman, Andy Devine, Audrey Christie) – Classic Movie Review 10,288

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Technicolor film The Ballad of Josie is an amiable girl-power Western comedy, with Doris Day enjoying herself as the widow Josie Minick, who accidentally kills her drunken husband with a […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

The Bay Boy *** (1984, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat) – Classic Movie Review 10,287

Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]

Sep, 10

Baxter! *** (1973, Patricia Neal, Scott Jacoby, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland) – Classic Movie Review 10,286

Director Lionel Jeffries’s sympathetic 1975 British drama Baxter! stars Patricia Neal as speech therapist Dr Clemm, who tries to solve the problems of disturbed, speech-afflicted 12-year-old Roger Baxter (Scott Jacoby), upset after his parents’ breakup. The […]

Sep, 10

Ghoulies II * (1987, Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro) – Classic Movie Review 10,285

Director Albert Band’s 1987 film Ghoulies II stars Damon Martin as Larry, Royal Dano as Uncle Ned and Phil Fondacaro as Sir Nigel Penneyweight, and is based on the characters created by Luca Bercovici and […]

Sep, 09

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? *** (1966, James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 10,284

Director Blake Edwards’s 1966 comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Is an amusing, lightly over-played satire about World War Two, as Lieutenant Christian (James Coburn) and Captain Cash (Dick Shawn) lead their […]

Sep, 09

Ghoulies * (1984, Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance) – Classic Movie Review 10,283

Director Luca Bercovici’s 1984 film Ghoulies is a gruesome black comedy horror flick, in which Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) moves in with his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) to an old tumbledown mansion, where he assumes […]

Sep, 09

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