Derek Winnert

The Little Drummer Girl ** (1984, Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 9278

Director George Roy Hill’s disappointing 1984 thriller The Little Drummer Girl stars Diane Keaton, whose performance as a naive pro-Palestinian American actress called Charlie involved in spying in the Arab-Israel conflict just about saves a […]

Jan, 19 · in Reviews

Anything Goes ** (1956, Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris) – Classic Movie Review 9277

Anything goes certainly here in director Robert Lewis’s 1956 Paramount Pictures remake of Anything Goes, and the first thing that went in Sidney Sheldon’s script is the plot of the great Broadway show by Guy […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

Anything Goes *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 9276

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1936 black and white musical Anything Goes [Tops Is the Limit] is a revamped version of the great stage show for the movies, based on the play by Guy Bolton and P […]

Jan, 18

The Smashing Bird I Used to Know ** (1969, Madeleine Hinde, Renée Asherson, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Derek Fowlds) – Classic Movie Review 9275

‘One step up from the gutter and one kiss away from jail!’ Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1969 drama The Smashing Bird I Used to Know [School for Unclaimed Girls] stars Madeleine Hinde [Madeline Hinde] as Nicki […]

Jan, 17

We Joined the Navy * (1962, Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Mischa Auer, Derek Fowlds, Joan O’Brien, Denise Warren) – Classic Movie Review 9274

Kenneth More, Jeremy Lloyd, Dinsdale Landen and Derek Fowlds play four sailors who embroil themselves in political nonsense in the Mediterranean in director Wendy Toye’s soggy 1962 comedy We Joined the Navy, which is very […]

Jan, 17

East of Sudan ** (1964, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter, Johnny Sekka) – Classic Movie Review 9273

Producer-director Nathan Juran’s 1964 East of Sudan is a simple, familiar, good-looking colonial adventure movie, with stalwart performances from Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter and Johnny Sekka, who help to make it […]

Jan, 17

Where the Heart Is *** (2000, Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno) – Classic Movie Review 9272

Director Matt Williams’s tastily offbeat 2000 comedy Where the Heart Is stars Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teenager, quarrelling with her mom (Sally Field) and then abandoned by her boyfriend (Dylan Bruno) in a […]

Jan, 17

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