Derek Winnert

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Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully] *** (1972, Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 9763

Dick Emery’s camp, lowbrow television act transfers to the movies amusingly and successfully in Cliff Owen’s 1972 British comedy Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully]. The plot, about a con man Charlie Tully (Emery) […]

May, 13 · in Uncategorized

Wanda Nevada *** (1979, Peter Fonda, Brooke Shields, Fiona Lewis, Henry Fonda) – Classic Movie Review 9762

Peter Fonda’s 1979 PG certificate Western comedy film Wanda Nevada also stars Peter Fonda as drifter/ gambler Beaudray Demerille and Brooke Shields as Wanda Nevada, the 13-year-old orphan with dreams of singing at the Grand […]

May, 13 · in Uncategorized

One More Train to Rob ** (1971, George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9761

The 1971 Western film One More Train to Rob, about the aftermath of an assault on a trainload of gold ending up with the hero being framed and sent to prison, features a star turn […]

May, 13

Viva Villa! *** (1934, Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 9760

Viva Villa! (1934) and an MGM mess in Mexico…  Directors Jack Conway and Howard Hawks’s fictionalised 1934 historical adventure Viva Villa! Stars the irrepressible Wallace Beery, who shines as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa, […]

May, 13

A Walk in the Spring Rain * (1970, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 9759

Director Guy Green’s 1970 film A Walk in the Spring Rain is a ghastly romantic drama, based on Rachel Maddox’s novel, wasting the talents of the great Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, both still in […]

May, 13

The Visit *** (1964, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa) – Classic Movie Review 9758

Director Bernhard Wicki’s 1964 The Visit [Der Besuch] stars Ingrid Bergman as rich Carla Zachanassian, who goes back home to bribe the townsfolk and to kill Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn), who seduced and drove her […]

May, 13

Today We Live ** (1933, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 9,757

Director Howard Hawks and co-director Richard Rosson’s 1933 wartime romantic drama Today We Live is a surprisingly low-powered, and now very much dated, movie from MGM studios, considering the high-voltage talent involved. As Ann Boyce-Smith, […]

May, 12

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