Derek Winnert

The Big Operator *** (1959, Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Danton) – Classic Movie Review 10,121

Director Charles F Haas’s 1959 crime thriller The Big Operator [Anatomy of a Syndicate] stars Mickey Rooney as a union racketeer called Little Joe Braun, who sets off on the rampage when the US Senate […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

Norwood ** (1970, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath, Carol Lynley, Pat Hingle, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 10,120

Director Jack Haley Jr’s 1970 comedy drama Norwood is an inoffensive but uninspired vehicle for amiable singer Glen Campbell (reteamed with Kim Darby as their reward for appearing in producer Hal B Wallis’s 1969 True […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

Conrack *** (1974, Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair) – Classic Movie Review 10,119

Martin Ritt’s 1974 drama film Conrack stars Jon Voight as real-life Pat Conroy, an idealistic young white English teacher at a rural South Carolina all-black elementary school. Director Martin Ritt’s 1974 drama Conrack stars Jon […]

Aug, 01

Conspiracy of Hearts *** (1960, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,118

‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]

Aug, 01

Consenting Adults * (1992, Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller) – Classic Movie Review 10,117

The 1992 mystery crime drama Consenting Adults is a disastrous, preposterous film noir thriller from Alan J Pakula (trying to follow up Presumed Innocent) in which Priscilla Parker (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)’s husband Richard (Kevin Kline) falls […]

Aug, 01

Beyond Glory ** (1948 Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 10,116

Alan Ladd stars in ‘an adventure which cowards quit early and weaklings never finish at all!’ Director John Farrow’s 1948 black and white Paramount Pictures drama Beyond Glory stars Alan Ladd as Captain Rockwell ‘Rocky’ Gilman, […]

Jul, 31

Wild Rovers *** (1971, William Holden, Ryan O’Neal, Karl Malden, Tom Skerritt, Joe Don Baker, Lynn Carlin, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 10,115

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s 1971 Western film Wild Rovers stars old-timer William Holden from The Wild Bunch and Ryan O’Neal fresh from Love Story as two likeable cowboy ruffians, Ross Bodine and Frank Post, cowhands on […]

Jul, 31

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