Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Reckoning *** (1970, Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Zena Walker, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9587

Director Jack Gold’s 1970 drama The Reckoning stars Nicol Williamson, who powerhouses his way through an unlikeable role as Michael Marler, a working-class Liverpool Irishman who greedily makes his way as a successful businessman in […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Forever Female *** (1953, Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Pat Crowley) – Classic Movie Review 9586

Sir James Barrie’s playlet Rosalind (among many works he had sold to Paramount 40 years earlier) is tidied up and expanded by the Epstein twins (Julius J Epstein and Philip G Epstein) into director Irving […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Black Widow *** (1951, Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne) – Classic Movie Review 9,585

Hammer Films’ 1951 British thriller film Black Widow is a version of a BBC radio serial of the day, Lester Powell’s Return from Darkness, and stars Christine Norden, Robert Ayres and Jennifer Jayne. The 1951 […]

Apr, 01

Black Widow **** (1954, Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft) – Classic Movie Review 9584

Producer-writer-director Nunnally Johnson assembles a line-up of stylish players for 20th Century Fox’s elegant and sophisticated 1954 theatre-set whodunit mystery thriller Black Widow. Van Heflin plays Peter Denver, a married Broadway producer accused of murder […]

Apr, 01

Black Widow **** (1987, Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson) – Classic Movie Review 9583

Director Bob Rafelson’s excellent, steamy 1986 thriller Black Widow stars Debra Winger as a smart woman federal agent obsessively tracking down a gold-digging murderess (Theresa Russell) who marries wealthy men and then kills them to inherit […]

Apr, 01

Whore *** (1991, Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas) – Classic Movie Review 9582

‘The oldest swinger in town’, Ken Russell, is back to shock us again with his 1991 film Whore, an adaptation of a play by David Hines about a day in the life of a hooker. […]

Apr, 01

Whose Life Is It Anyway? **** (1981, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti) – Classic Movie Review 9581

Playwright Brian Clark’s distinguished London and Broadway hit play about a wisecracking paralysis victim, unable to movie apart from his head after a car accident, and now fighting for his right to die, is filmed […]

Mar, 31

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