Derek Winnert

Oliver Twist *** (1982, George C Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern) – Classic Movie Review 9171

Director Clive Donner’s 1982 Oliver Twist is an excellent TV movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale starring George C Scott as an almost fatherly Fagin and Tim Curry as the evil thug Bill […]

Dec, 19 · in Reviews

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders ** (1965, Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Angela Lansbury, Leo McKern, Daniel Massey, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 9170

Floundering Flanders  ‘I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.’ Paramount clearly wanted to turn Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel into a cash-in on the success of 1963’s Tom Jones […]

Dec, 19 · in Reviews

Jamaica Run ** (1953, Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 9169

Mayhem and murder ensue when there are six rivals for a family estate in writer-director Lewis R Foster’s routine, production-line 1953 Caribbean ocean-going mystery action thriller Jamaica Run. Ray Milland stars as schooner captain Patrick […]

Dec, 18

Walk the Proud Land ** (1956, Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley, Jay Silverheels, Charles Drake, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 9168

Director Jesse Hibbs’s modest 1956 biographical Western film Walk the Proud Land stars Audie Murphy as noble Apache agent John Philip Clum, who attempts to resolve conflicts between warring factions and get Geronimo (Jay Silverheels) […]

Dec, 18

The Night They Raided Minsky’s **** (1968, Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom) – Classic Movie Review 9167

Director William Friedkin’s 1968 comedy The Night They Raided Minsky’s [The Night They Invented Striptease] is an entertaining and picturesque slice of life from America’s burlesque era, capturing the atmosphere of jolly sleaze. The surprise […]

Dec, 18

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia *** (1968, Dudley Moore, Eddie Foy Jr, Suzy Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 9166

The 1968 comedy film 30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia is a pretty funny vehicle for star Dudley Moore. Can Dud score a hit with the women and get on the stage before he’s 30?  […]

Dec, 17

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones ** (1976, Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Georgia Brown, Joan Collins) – Classic Movie Review 9165

Nicky Henson was also top-billed in a lesser remake of Henry Fielding’s novel The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) after his star turn in the cult horror film Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] (1973). No one had […]

Dec, 17

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