Derek Winnert

Attack on the Iron Coast ** (1968, Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 10,166

Director Paul Wendkos’s 1967 Attack on the Iron Coast stars Lloyd Bridges, who leads a cheaply-made, run-of-the-mill, British-made World War Two wartime action thriller as a Canadian commando called Major Jamie Wilson commanding a suicidal […]

Aug, 12 · in Reviews

The Dain Curse *** (1978, James Coburn, Jason Miller, Paul Stewart, Hector Elizondo, Jean Simmons, Beatrice Straight, Tom Bower, David Canary, Malachy McCourt) – Classic Movie Review 10,165

Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 novel The Dain Curse is adapted into an enjoyable CBS television miniseries in 1978 by director E W Swackhamer and producer Martin Poll, and stars James Coburn as the nameless private detective […]

Aug, 11 · in Reviews

King Lear **** (1983, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 10,164

Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]

Aug, 11

King Lear * (1987, Woody Allen, Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax) – Classic Movie Review 10,163

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard claimed that the making of his 1987 film King Lear inspired him so much that he finally really wanted to read the play. So it comes as no surprise that his interpretation […]

Aug, 11

King Lear [Korol Lir] ** (1970, Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek) – Classic Movie Review 10,162

Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]

Aug, 11

Julie ** (1956, Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 10,161

The 1956 film noir crime drama Julie stars Doris Day, Louis Jourdan and Barry Sullivan. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Screenplay and Best Song. Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s 1956 black and white film […]

Aug, 10

King Lear **** (1970, Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,160

‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]

Aug, 10

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