Derek Winnert

Elvis **** (1979, Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell) Classic Movie Review 9303

Kurt Russell leads as Elvis in director John Carpenter’s compelling 1979 biographical account of Presley’s rise to stardom, making an effective stab at re-creating the King, with help from country singer Ronnie McDowell’s excellent voicing […]

Jan, 26 · in Reviews

Easy Come, Easy Go * (1967, Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest) – Classic Movie Review 9302

Elvis Presley dives to the bottom of the barrel as a singing US Navy deep sea diver frogman called Ted Jackson, who thinks he has become incredibly rich when, joined by go-go dancer Jo Symington […]

Jan, 26 · in Reviews

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse * (1962, Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 9301

Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]

Jan, 25

The Games **½ (1970, Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour, Stanley Baker) – Classic Movie Review 9300

A quartet of runners gets ready for the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon in Michael Winner’s acceptable, occasionally exciting 1970 sports drama The Games, which is attractively filmed on globetrotting locations. Though the schematic yarn, loosely […]

Jan, 25

The 34 feature films of Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013)

The flamboyant, outspoken and sometimes controversial showman director Michael Winner directed 34 movies over a period of 40 years, all of them interesting, a handful of them good. He worked a lot with Charles Bronson […]

Jan, 24

Chato’s Land *** (1972, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 9,299

Michael Winner’s brutal and cynical 1972 revenge Western film Chato’s Land is worth while for the fine cast (Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore), painstaking film-making and impressive sequences. Director Michael Winner delivers a tough, […]

Jan, 24

La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory] ***** (1990, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Julien Ciamaca, Joris Molinas) – Classic Movie Review 9298

In a film of the greatest warmth and humanity, director Yves Robert’s 1990 French triumph La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory] brings vividly to life on the screen Marcel (Jean de Florette) Pagnol’s […]

Jan, 24

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