Derek Winnert

Butterflies Are Free *** (1972, Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 9374

The 1972 romantic comedy drama film Butterflies Are Free is a stage bound but enjoyable four-hankie tearjerker about a young actress (Goldie Hawn) falling for an unsighted San Francisco lad (Edward Albert). Director Milton Katselas’s […]

Feb, 12 · in Reviews

Million Dollar Mermaid ** (1952, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9373

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]

Feb, 12 · in Reviews

The Million Pound Note [Man with a Million] *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joan Grenfell, Ernest Thesiger, A E Matthews, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 9372

Gregory Peck came to Britain in the 1950s to film two movies for the Rank Organisation and sadly neither did very well (the other is The Purple Plain). In Ronald Neame’s 1954 The Million Pound […]

Feb, 12

Mirage **** (1965, Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 9,371

The 1965 neo noir chase-mystery film Mirage is a deliciously tasty, satisfyingly convoluted Hitchcockian paranoia/ amnesia/ conspiracy thriller starring a memorable line-up of Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy and Jack Weston. Director […]

Feb, 11

Detour *** (1992, Tom Neal Jr, Lea Lavish, Susanna Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9370

Director Wade Williams’s 1992 thriller Detour stars Tom Neal Jr, who plays his father Tom Neal’s old part in a quite effective, close colour remake of the 1945 black and white cult B-movie classic Detour, […]

Feb, 11

Please Sir! ** (1971, John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Eric Chitty, Richard Davies) – Classic Movie Review 9369

Director Mark Stuart’s rather feeble and obvious though entirely genial enough 1971 Please Sir! is the big-screen film version of the deservedly highly popular TV school sitcom, in which caring but hapless teacher Mr Hedges […]

Feb, 11

Miranda * (2002, Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle MacLachlan, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 9368

Christina Ricci stars as young con woman Miranda, who walks into the life of British northern librarian Frank (John Simm) and true love blooms. But then Ricci’s partner Christian (John Hurt) and victim Nailor (Kyle MacLachlan) […]

Feb, 11

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