Derek Winnert

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez ***½ (1982, Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower) – Classic Movie Review 10,292

Edward James Olmos stars as Mexican-American farmer Gregorio Cortez, who kills a sheriff, evades capture and becomes a folk hero, in Robert M Young’s impressive, stirring 1982 Western film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.  Director […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

The Ballad of Cable Hogue **** (1970, Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, R G Armstrong, L Q Jones) – Classic Movie Review 10,291

Sam Peckinpah’s 1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue is an entertaining lighter-hearted Western from the director of The Wild Bunch, in which prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) sets out for revenge on the bad guys […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple *** (2001, Glenn Close, Jena Malone, Bruce McGill) – Classic Movie Review 10,290

Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 2001 TV movie The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is a superior, pacy, gripping adventure about a mom, Arvella Whipple (Glenn Close), and her three children heading West after the death of […]

Sep, 10

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

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

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

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