Derek Winnert

Hearts of the World *** (1918, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron) – Classic Movie Review 10,198

D W Griffith’s famed 1918 silent World War One flagwaver propaganda drama Hearts of the World has a scenario by Griffith, in which a French family suffers as their son, Douglas Gordon Hamilton (Robert Harron) […]

Aug, 19 · in Uncategorized

Heart Like a Wheel *** (1983, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney, Anthony Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 10,197

Director Jonathan Kaplan’s 1983 Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia, who gets into top gear for this carefully crafted biopic of racing driver Shirley Muldowney, who battled male dominance in the sport and her […]

Aug, 19 · in Uncategorized

The Heart of the Matter *** (1953, Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell) – Classic Movie Review 10,196

The 1953 British drama The Heart of the Matter is an interesting film of one of Graham Greene’s best novels. Trevor Howard is effective as the unhappily married British security policeman who has a guilty […]

Aug, 19

Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] *** (1976, Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz) – Classic Movie Review 10,195

Director Werner Herzog’s 1976 Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] is an odd version of a German folktale, about a Bavarian shepherd who reveals the secrets of glassblowing to a village factory boss whose expert […]

Aug, 19

Hard to Get ** (1938, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 10,194

Director Ray Enright’s 1938 screwball romantic comedy Hard to Get stars Dick Powell, who gets one hit song (‘You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby’) to croon as Bill Davis, an architect working as a […]

Aug, 18

Meet the Applegates * (1990, Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman ) – Classic Movie Review 10,193

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]

Aug, 18

Marked for Death * (1990, Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 10,192

Director Dwight H Little’s plodding 1990 violence-by-numbers crime ‘thriller’ Marked for Death [Screwface] stars the era’s hot action man Steven Seagal as Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher, a retired drug-busting operative marked for death by […]

Aug, 18

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