Derek Winnert

Good Morning Babylon [Good Morning Babilonia] **** (1987, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 9744

Charles Dance steals the 1987 show Good Morning Babylon as movie pioneer director D W Griffith in a charming homage to silent film-making from Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, the Italian heavyweight directors responsible for […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

Good Sam * (1948, Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins) – Classic Movie Review 9743

Director Leo McCarey’s 1948 romantic comedy drama Good Sam stars Gary Cooper as the Good Sam(aritan) Clayton of the title, who helps too many people and ends up penniless, unable to help his own family, […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

Good Day for a Hanging ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, Margaret Hayes, Robert Vaughn, Joan Blackman, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 9742

  ‘Bloody, blistering violence as a baby-face goon explodes against the girl who loves him… while the mob stands ready to tear out his guts before the law can hang him!’ Director Nathan H Juran’s […]

May, 10

The Good Die Young *** (1954, Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, John Ireland, Margaret Leighton, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9741

A particularly strong cast with eight unusual stars contributes to director Lewis Gilbert’s entertaining noir-style 1954 British crime thriller The Good Die Young about a gang who plan a heist on the Royal Mail postal […]

May, 10

Horror Hospital ** (1973, Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 9740

Robin Askwith stars in Horror Hospital (1973) as Sixties pop songwriter Jason Jones, who plans a break at a country retreat, a pseudo-health farm called Brittlehurst Manor. On the train there he meets Judy Peters […]

May, 09

Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers **½ (1977, Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Warren Mitchell, John le Mesurier, Edward Woodward, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 9739

Leslie Thomas scripts from his own novel, but is the now iconic Seventies cast that is the making of the 1977 British army sex comedy Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers. Director Norman Cohen’s 1977 British army […]

May, 09

In the Cool of the Day ** (1963, Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 9738

Peter Finch and Jane Fonda star as a married publisher and a young married woman who have an illicit affair, in MGM’s coolly received 1963 romantic drama In the Cool of the Day. ‘WHY DID […]

May, 09

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