Derek Winnert

Julius Caesar ** (1970, Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, Jill Bennett, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,159

Director Stuart Burge’s 1970 British film of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar has the misfortune of following the classic 1953 version of Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando and James Mason. John Gielgud plays Caesar this […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

Billy Bathgate ** (1991, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 10,158

If taste and talent were all, director Robert Benton’s 1991 film of novelist E L Doctorow’s fantasised biopic of young Billy (Loren Dean), who is taken up by the real-life Thirties New York City gangster […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

Billy Rose’s Jumbo *** (1962, Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 10,156

Roll up, roll up for smashing performances from effervescent Doris Day (as travelling circus aerialist and trick rider Kitty Wonder), Jimmy Durante (as the circus’s gambling owner and clown Pop Wonder) and Martha Raye (as […]

Aug, 09

Millennium ** (1989, Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J Travanti, Robert Joy, Lloyd Bochner, Brent Carver) – Classic Movie Review 10,157

Director Michael Anderson’s 1989 sci-fi thriller Millennium stars Kris Kristofferson as Bill Smith, the National Transportation Safety Board chief investigator, who is heading an investigation into a mid-air plane crash when he meets and goes […]

Aug, 09

Juice ***½ (1992, Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Samuel L Jackson, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 10,155

Co-writer/ director Ernest R Dickerson, who frequently worked as a cinematographer on many of Spike Lee’s early movies, puts on a director’s cap for the first time for the tough-edged 1992 rights-of-passage action crime drama […]

Aug, 09

Pony Soldier [MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties] *** (1952, Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez) Classic Movie Review 10,154

Director Joseph M Newman’s 1952 Pony Soldier [MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties] stars Tyrone Power as Pony Soldier Duncan MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties, who tries to keep Canadian outlaw Cree Indians from going down […]

Aug, 09

The Pony Express *** (1925, Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence, Al Hart, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 10,153

Producer-director James Cruze’s famous 1925 silent Western film The Pony Express was intended as a follow-up to his 1923 big hit, The Covered Wagon, but didn’t quite hit the target, either artistically or at the […]

Aug, 09

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