Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Judith ** (1966, Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,152

Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries after playing a Jewish woman in Judith (1966). Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 drama Judith [Conflict] stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins but does not have much […]

Aug, 09

Blanche **** (1971, Ligia Branice, Michel Simon, Georges Wilson, Lawrence Trimble, Jacques Perrin) – Classic Movie Review 10,151

Writer-director Walerian Borowczyk’s entrancing 1971 French medieval romance Blanche tells the tragic story of a lovely, pure young wife (Ligia Branice) of an old baron (Michel Simon), and the handsome stepson Nicolas (Lawrence Trimble), visiting king […]

Aug, 09

Blanche Fury *** (1948, Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 10,150

Director Marc Allégret’s 1948 British film Blanche Fury is a handsome-looking, rather Gothic Victorian-style romantic melodrama about a governess Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) who, at the bidding of her rich uncle Simon (Walter Fitzgerald), marries […]

Aug, 08

Black Orpheus **** (1959, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira) – Classic Movie Review 10,149

Director Marcel Camus’s 1959 film Black Orpheus [Orfeu Negro] is a modernised version of the classical Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in modern Rio de Janeiro during the carnival, and filmed in Rio […]

Aug, 08

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