Derek Winnert

In the Line of Duty [Line of Duty] *** (2019, Aaron Eckhart, Giancarlo Esposito, Dina Meyer, Courtney Eaton) – Movie Review

Director Steven C Miller’s In the Line of Duty [Line of Duty] is a good, solid, entertaining action thriller, propelled with an intriguing, unusual premise, interesting characters, and some witty banter in the dialogue. The […]

Jan, 07 · in Reviews

Woman of Straw ** (1964, Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 9,235

The 1964 film Woman of Straw is a Hitchcock-style crime thriller about a wicked nephew (Sean Connery) and a sexy Italian nurse (Gina Lollobrigida) scheming to bump off a rich old tycoon (Ralph Richardson). Director […]

Jan, 06 · in Reviews

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate **** (1923, Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller) – Classic Movie Review 9234

Charles Chaplin wrote, produced and directed the silent 1923 romantic drama A Woman of Paris, a simple story of a country girl called Marie St Clair (Edna Purviance) who believes she has been jilted and […]

Jan, 06

The Guru *** (1969, Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt) – Classic Movie Review 9233

Director James Ivory’s 1969 comedy drama The Guru stars Michael York as English pop singer Tom Pickle, who goes to Bombay, India, to learn the sitar (this is the late Sixties) with maestro Ustad Zafar […]

Jan, 06

The World of Henry Orient **** (1964, Peter Sellers, Angela Lansbury, Paula Prentiss, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Tom Bosley) – Classic Movie Review 9232

Schoolgirls Val Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Gil Gilbert (Merri Spaeth) find avant-garde pianist Henry Orient (Sellers) committing adultery with Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss) in public in New York’s Central Park, in director George Roy Hill’s odd […]

Jan, 06

Hanky Panky ** (1982, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark) – Classic Movie Review 9231

Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]

Jan, 06

The World’s Greatest Lover *** (1977, Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 9230

Writer-producer-director-star Gene Wilder goes every which way for laughs in his 1977 Twenties Hollywood send-up The World’s Greatest Lover – and raises quite a high score of them. He plays Milwaukee baker Rudy Hickman who […]

Jan, 06

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