Derek Winnert

In the Doghouse ** (1961, Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley) – Classic Movie Review 9736

Director Darcy Conyers’s 1961 comedy In the Doghouse has us in mild stitches with James Herriot-type adventures, this time adapted from the novel It’s a Vet’s Life by Alex Duncan, in a screenplay by the […]

May, 09 · in Uncategorized

Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] *** (1952, Leslie Dwyer, Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth, Sandra Dorne, Ronald Adam, Joan Hickson, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 9,735

The 1952 British drama film Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] is a decently crafted, enjoyable film of Stanley Houghton’s famed 1912 play about an independently minded English north country mill girl (Lisa Daniely) enjoying a holiday […]

May, 09 · in Reviews

The Very Thought of You ** (1944, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9,734

Director Delmer Daves’s tepid but kindly 1944 wartime romantic drama film The Very Thought of You stars Dennis Morgan as a US Army sergeant, Sgt David ‘Dave’ Stewart in World War Two. Dave and his […]

May, 08

King of the Wind **** (1990, Navin Chowdhry, Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson, Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 9733

Director Peter Duffell’s 1990 film King of the Wind is a first-class family adventure about a mute orphan boy called Agba (Navin Chowdhry) and his fine Arab steed, rescued in Paris by English gent Edward […]

May, 08

Everybody’s Fine [Stanno Tutti Bene] **** (1990, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli) – Classic Movie Review 9732

Marcello Mastroianni’s certainly fine as Matteo Scuro, a retired old Sicilian bureaucrat who travels to mainland Italy to check what’s happened to his five kids, and is lied to by them to conceal the trouble […]

May, 08

Everybody’s All-American ** (1988, Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman, Carl Lumbly) – Classic Movie Review 9731

Director Taylor Hackford’s 1988 romantic sports drama Everybody’s All-American [When I Fall in Love] is one of the films that dragged Dennis Quaid’s star career down just when it had been going so nicely after […]

May, 08

Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] ** (1969, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Lionel Stander, Woody Strode, Victor Buono, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 9730

Writer-director Giuseppe Colizzi’s violent 1969 Spaghetti Western film Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] has too much broad, off-target comedy and offers yet another popular, if easily resistible pairing of Terence Hill (as Cat Stevens!) […]

May, 07

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