Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Rose of Washington Square **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton) – Classic Movie Review 9726

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]

May, 07 · in Uncategorized

Moonlighting **** (1982, Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav) – Classic Movie Review 9725

Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

Should Married Men Go Home? *** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Kay Deslys, Edna Marion, Viola Richard) – Classic Movie Review 9724

‘Question: What is the surest way to keep a husband home? Answer: Break both his legs.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy leave their wives to go golfing, chased off by Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) after […]

May, 06

The Shout ** (1978, Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry) – Classic Movie Review 9723

Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 The Shout is a thin, arty, anecdotal horror drama film from Robert Graves’s short story about a man at a mental hospital who says that the Aborigines taught him how to […]

May, 06

Justine *** (1969, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Michael York, John Vernon, Anna Karina, Philippe Noiret, Robert Forster, Jack Albertson, Cliff Gorman, George Baker) – Classic Movie Review 9,722

Anouk Aimée stars as the enigmatic Justine in George Cukor’s wobbly but intriguing and colourful 1969 romantic mystery drama film. Director George Cukor’s wobbly but intriguing and colourful romantic mystery drama film Justine is the […]

May, 06

The Karate Kid Part II *** (1986, Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Pat E Johnson, Martin L Kove) – Classic Movie Review 9,721

The 1986 martial arts action adventure film The Karate Kid Part II offers more of the same as the 1984 original, and again stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who accompanies his karate teacher Mr […]

May, 06

The Karate Kid Part III ** (1989, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9720

They pushed their luck making a third one when the material was already starting to wear thin in The Karate Kid Part II and the ‘Kid’ Ralph Macchio was nearly 30 (though he does look […]

May, 06

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