Derek Winnert

Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] ** (1971, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin) – Classic Movie Review 9475

Director Abraham Polonsky’s 1971 adventure Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] [Le Roman d’un Voleur de Chevaux] is a little-seen, virtually ignored box-office flop. Based on a story by Joseph Opatoshu, it is a Jewish […]

Mar, 07 · in Uncategorized

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here **** (1969, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark) – Classic Movie Review 9,474

The undervalued 1969 anti-Western film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here stars Robert Redford and tells the real-life tale of a Western manhunt in 1909. As director or screenwriter, witch-hunt victim Abraham Polonsky was the […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon **** (1970, Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Kay Thompson, Leonard Frey, James Coco, Wayne Tippit, Guy Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 9473

Director Otto Preminger tugs determinedly at the heartstrings, and, despite the odd slip into sentimentality and plot contrivance, gets through to the target in his beguilingly sweet and sensitive 1970 drama Tell Me That You […]

Mar, 07

The Teahouse of the August Moon *** (1956, Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 9,472

Marlon Brando stars in the awkward 1956 comedy drama film The Teahouse of the August Moon about US troops confronting Oriental culture in Okinawa. Brando shows a rare comic touch, but it is very uncomfortable […]

Mar, 07

Teen Wolf Too * (1987, Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand) – Classic Movie Review 9471

The 18-year-old Jason Bateman takes over from Michael J Fox as his character Scott Howard’s college boxing werewolf cousin Todd Howard, a struggling teenager who turns into a wolf, in director Christopher Leitch’s 1987 Teen […]

Mar, 07

Teen Wolf ** (1985, Michael J Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti) – Classic Movie Review 9470

Director Rod Daniel’s 1985 comedy Teen Wolf stars Eighties teen idol Michael J Fox, who is reasonably winsome as Scott Howard, the hairy hero of this surprisingly big-hit comedy about a high school student who […]

Mar, 06

Full Moon High *** (1981, Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon) – Classic Movie Review 9469

Writer-producer-director Larry Cohen’s goofy, lively and engaging 1981 horror spoof Full Moon High has a similar plot to the later Teen Wolf (1985) in its story about a school kid (Adam Arkin) who turns into […]

Mar, 06

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