Derek Winnert

Behold a Pale Horse *** (1964, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 9427

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1964 Behold a Pale Horse is a high-class, but low-involvement post-Spanish Civil War drama, afflicted by much miscasting, but with dignified acting none the less. Zinnemann was probably most interested in the […]

Feb, 25 · in Reviews

The Strawberry Statement *** (1970, Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort) – Classic Movie Review 9426

Director Stuart Hagmann’s 1970 drama The Strawberry Statement is an interesting, extremely well-acted but uneasy and hesitant college confrontation youth movie with an excitingly staged violent clash between students and the authorities at the climax. […]

Feb, 24 · in Reviews

Believe in Me *** (1971, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Cypher, Allen Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 9425

Director Stuart Hagmann’s 1971 drama Believe in Me stars Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset. Sarrazin was in a relationship for seven years (1967–1974) with Bisset, whom he met while making The Sweet Ride (1968). Hagmann, the director […]

Feb, 24

Across the Bridge **** (1957, Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Bernard Lee, Noel Willman, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 9424

Director Ken Annakin’s 1957 black and white thriller Across the Bridge stars Rod Steiger, who came to Britain to play Carl Schaffner, a scared swindler running from the London law ( Noel Willman as Chief […]

Feb, 24

The Believer *** (2001, Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, Garret Dillahunt) – Classic Movie Review 9423

Writer-director Henry Bean’s critically acclaimed 2001 drama The Believer is a fascinating and sincerely intentioned but highly controversial and disturbing psychological drama, based on fact, starring a convincing Ryan Gosling as Danny Balint, a young […]

Feb, 24

Across 110th Street **** (1972, Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 9422

Director Barry Shear’s 1972 Across 110th Street stars Anthony Franciosa as Mafia man Nick D’Salvio, who retaliates furiously when small-time thieves Jim Harris (Paul Benjamin) and Joe Logart (Ed Bernard) steal $300,000 of his Italian […]

Feb, 24

The Believers *** (1987, Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross) – Classic Movie Review 9421

Martin Sheen leads British director John Schlesinger’s vibrant, chilling 1987 American occult horror thriller The Believers about a police psychiatrist widower Cal Jamison (Sheen) and his son Chris (Harley Cross) who get scarily involved with […]

Feb, 24

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