Derek Winnert

Cass Timberlane ** (1947, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 9079

Director George Sidney’s 1947 romantic drama Cass Timberlane stars Lana Turner as poor girl Virginia Marshland, who marries older rich judge Cass Timberlane (Spencer Tracy), loses her baby, and then starts fancying the shifty attorney […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

French Dressing ** (1964, James Booth, Marisa Mell, Roy Kinnear, Alita Naughton, Sandor Elès, Bryan Pringle) – Classic Movie Review 9078

Director Ken Russell’s first feature French Dressing (1964) is a British satirical seaside farce with Marisa Mell as a French starlet taken up by Gormleigh-on-Sea’s deckchair man and lady reporter as the local kind of […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

Lust for Gold *** (1949, Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 9077

Producer-director S Sylvan Simon’s 1949 Lust for Gold stars Ida Lupino, who is suitably tough and completely believable as Julia Thomas, the ruthless woman trying to steal a gold mine from her equally money-obsessed cohorts […]

Nov, 18

Alone on the Pacific **** (1963, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka) – Classic Movie Review 9076

Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese adventure classic Alone on the Pacific [Taiheiyô Hitoribotchi] [My Enemy the Sea] stars Yûjirô Ishihara as Kenichi Horie, a young man who defies his parents, the authorities and the sea […]

Nov, 18

Always *** (1985, Patrice Townsend, Henry Jaglom, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins, Melissa Leo) – Classic Movie Review 9075

Writer/ producer/ director Henry Jaglom’s clever and cultish 1985 romantic drama Always is a Woody Allen-style tale of a group of friends with love, marriage and divorce on their minds – one couple is going […]

Nov, 17

Castaway ** (1986, Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 9074

Nicolas Roeg’s 1986 film Castaway stars Oliver Reed as middle-aged Englishman Gerald Kingsland, who puts an advert in a London magazine for a companion/ wife to take to a tropical desert island for a year […]

Nov, 17

Alvarez Kelly *** (1966, William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 9073

Based on an actual incident, director Edward Dmytryk’s meaty 1966 American Civil War Western saga Alvarez Kelly is firm enough in its staunch liberal-minded principles to stay on course when the unravelling of the plot occasionally […]

Nov, 16

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