Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

There’s a Girl in My Soup *** (1970, Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, John Comer, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 9164

Director Roy Boulting’s 1970 British comedy There’s a Girl in My Soup stars Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn in an ordinary, over-familiar comic tale about a lecherous television star called Robert Danvers (Sellers) and the […]

Dec, 16

Jane Eyre *** (1970, George C Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen) – Classic Movie Review 9163

Charlotte Brontë probably would not have liked director Delbert Mann’s smooth and glossy 1970 American TV version of Jane Eyre, which was released in cinemas worldwide. It is just too smooth and glossy. It won […]

Dec, 16

The Two Popes ***** (2019, Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín) – Movie Review

Director Fernando Meirelles’s fascinating true-life biographical comedy drama The Two Popes (2019) is one of the films of the year, with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins both on scalding form as the liberal future Pope […]

Dec, 16

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