Derek Winnert

Odette **** (1950, Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 9143

Anna Neagle shines in her producer-director husband Herbert Wilcox’s 1950 British wartime drama Odette. Based on the book by Jerrard Tickell, there is a sterling tale of Resistance heroics in Nazi-occupied France in this stirring […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

Love and Bullets ** (1979, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 9142

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1978 film Love and Bullets is a workmanlike Charles Bronson thriller in which Bronson’s character, the Phoenix, Arizona, cop Charlie Congers, is assigned to rescue Jackie Pruit (played as usual by Bronson’s […]

Dec, 09 · in Reviews

The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] * (1977, Gene Hackman, Richard Widmark, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 9,141

Stanley Kramer’s 1977 neo-noir assassination thriller film The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen,  Mickey Rooney and Richard Widmark. Producer/ director Stanley Kramer’s 1977 neo-noir assassination thriller film The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars […]

Dec, 09

Listen to Britain **** (1942, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Myra Hess) – Classic Movie Review 9140

The 1942 essay film Listen to Britain is a rousing classic wartime documentary short from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings, embodying the recorded sounds of vignettes in the nation’s life, as civilians struggle with surviving […]

Dec, 09

Chances Are *** (1989, Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr, Ryan O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 9139

Director Emile Ardolino’s cute 1989 fantasy romance Chances Are is about a woman, Corinne Jeffries (Cybill Shepherd), still faithful to her murdered lawyer husband, Louie Jeffries (Christopher McDonald). Many years later, Louie comes back to […]

Dec, 08

My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d’Amérique] **** (1980, Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre) – Classic Movie Review 9138

Director Alain Renais’s offbeat, humorous 1980 film My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d’Amérique] is a character study of a technical manager at a textile factory (Gérard Depardieu), a self-educated actress (Nicole Garcia) and a writer/politician […]

Dec, 08

Chandu on the Magic Island *** (1935, Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba, Clara Kimball Young) – Classic Movie Review 9137

In 1935, the last eight episodes of the 1934 American 12-episode fantasy film serial The Return of Chandu were edited into a second feature film of 65 minutes, released as Chandu on the Magic Island. Written […]

Dec, 08

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