Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Uncategorized

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

The Magus * (1968, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina) – Classic Movie Review 9546

Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina are in trouble in director Guy Green’s murky, muddled and meandering 1968 film of the then in-vogue John Fowles novel The Magus. As screenwriter, Fowles just […]

Mar, 22

Mala Noche **** (1986, Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge) – Classic Movie Review 9,545

Gus Van Sant’s hilarious 1986 debut film Mala Noche stars Tim Strecter as a gay shop clerk, who falls head-over-heels for a teenaged illegal Mexican migrant worker (Doug Cooeyate). Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s hilarious 1986 fable […]

Mar, 22

Last Summer **** (1969, Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns) – Classic Movie Review 9544

Director Frank Perry’s strong, dark, X-rated 1969 drama of troubled teens Last Summer is based on Evan Hunter’s novel of youthful passions, teen angst and young cruelty. Last Summer is an intelligent, believable version of […]

Mar, 22

Inspector Maigret [Maigret tend un piège] [Maigret Sets a Trap] **** (1958, Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel, André Valmy, Lino Ventura, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 9543

Jean Gabin gives a tremendous performance as Georges Simenon’s famed pipe-smoking police inspector Maigret, investigating Jack the Ripper-type knife-murders of women in Paris’s seedy Montmartre. Director Jean Delannoy’s extremely satisfying, top-level 1958 French police thriller […]

Mar, 22

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