Derek Winnert

Juste avant la nuit [Just Before Nightfall] **** (1971, Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Périer, Jean Carmet, Celia, Clelia Matania) – Classic Movie Review 9553

The 1971 French movie Juste Avant la Nuit [Just Before Nightfall] is a resonant, meticulously made, richly satisfying Claude Chabrol psychological crime thriller. Michel Bouquet stars as the slimy and pathetic advertising executive Charles Masson, […]

Mar, 24 · in Uncategorized

The Magic Christian *** (1969, Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 9552

Director Joseph McGrath’s eccentric 1969 satirical comedy The Magic Christian stars Peter Sellers as a millionaire called Sir Guy Grand and Ringo Starr as the homeless boy Youngman, the son he adopts to be his heir, […]

Mar, 23 · in Uncategorized

A Man Could Get Killed *** (1966, James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Tony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Roland Culver, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 9551

James Garner gives an engaging lightweight turn as the lead character William Beddoes, an American businessman abroad on a work trip in Portugal, who gets confused with a British spy on the trail of lost diamonds, […]

Mar, 23

Man at the Top *** (1973, Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 9550

Director Mike Vardy’s 1973 Man at the Top is the third film about that nasty piece of work Joe Lampton, this time a Hammer Films studios spin-off from the popular Thames TV series (1970-72) with […]

Mar, 23

Just a Gigolo (1978, David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Marlene Dietrich) – Classic Movie Review 9549

Director David Hemmings’s 1978 musical drama Just a Gigolo [Schöner Gigolo, Armer Gigolo] stars the astonishing cast of David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell and Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens] – ‘and […]

Mar, 23

Bang the Drum Slowly **** (1973, Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia) – Classic Movie Review 9548

Director John D Hancock’s 1973 sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly stars young Robert De Niro giving a moving performance as mentally simple Bruce the catcher, a New York baseball player dying of Hodgkin’s disease, who […]

Mar, 23

Ashanti (1979, Michael Caine, Beverly Johnson, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 9547

Michael Caine’s career was in deepest doldrums with The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and then director Richard Fleischer’s terrible 1979 adventure drama Ashanti, in which he plays English born Dr David Linderby, a member […]

Mar, 22

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