Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Powaqqatsi **** (1988, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 10,148

Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]

Aug, 08

Pony Express *** (1953, Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 10,147

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1953 Western film Pony Express stars Charlton Heston and Forrest Tucker as Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok, who try to found the Pony Express amid the hostility of stagecoach station […]

Aug, 08

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