Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

The Winning Team ** (1952, Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 9580

Yes, Doris Day and Ronald Reagan made a film together – director Lewis Seiler’s 1952 drama The Winning Team, a careful Warner Bros biopic of Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Nebraska phone engineer who hit the […]

Mar, 31

Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] * (1982, Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Ingrid Pitt, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9579

Director Ian Sharp’s 1982 gung-ho British action thriller Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] (1982) is a British SAS (Special Air Service) adventure yarn about tough guys storming in to the American Embassy in London […]

Mar, 31

Framed *** (1975, Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters, John Larch) – Classic Movie Review 9578

Director Phil Karlson’s 1975 action crime thriller Framed stars Joe Don Baker as innocent gambler Ron Lewis who is out after four years of jail for supposedly killing a town sheriff (he has killed the […]

Mar, 30

For Those in Peril **** (1944, David Farrar, Ralph Michael, Robert Wyndham) – Classic Movie Review 9577

Charles Crichton directs Ealing Studios’ painstaking 1944 patriotic toast to the World War Two wartime RAF Air and Sea Rescue teams For Those in Peril, as disillusioned officer P / O Rawlings (Ralph Michael), who wanted […]

Mar, 30

For Better, for Worse [Cocktails in the Kitchen] ** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Eileen Herlie) – Classic Movie Review 9,576

Dirk Bogarde brings a touch of class to writer-director J Lee Thompson’s predictable but sometimes funny 1954 British domestic comedy romance film For Better, for Worse [Cocktails in the Kitchen]. Dirk Bogarde brings a touch […]

Mar, 30

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