Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother ** (1975, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 9229

Writer-director-star Gene Wilder’s 1975 comedy The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother is likeable enough and acceptable if you are in a tolerant mood, and Wilder and the Mel Brooks company (Marty Feldman as Sgt […]

Jan, 06

1917 **** (2019, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch) – Movie Review

Director Sam Mendes feels it’s timely to bang on about the First World War again in his 2019 war drama 1917. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s about 100 years too late for this film. […]

Jan, 06

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