Derek Winnert

That’s My Boy ** (1951, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Eddie Mayehoff, Ruth Hussey, Polly Bergen, John McIntire, Marion Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 9095

Director Hal Walker’s 1951 comedy That’s My Boy is one of the best of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis’s early films, with Lewis as the dumb college weakling ‘Junior’ Jackson, who is such a disappointment […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas *** (1985, Julie Walters, Anthony Higgins, Jane Evers) – Classic Movie Review 9094

Director John Goldschmidt’s 1985 comedy She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas is based on the novel by Eva Hardy and stars Julie Walters, who gives one of her most engaging performances as one of the eight […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Searching for Bobby Fischer **** (1993, Max Pomeranc, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Laurence Fishburne) – Classic Movie Review 9093

Writer-director Steven Zaillian’s 1993 biographical drama Searching for Bobby Fischer [Innocent Moves] is a decent, well acted real-life story about a small boy called Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc in his debut) who is a genius […]

Nov, 24

An Innocent Man ** (1989, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins) – Classic Movie Review 9092

Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]

Nov, 23

The Hero of Babylon [L’eroe di Babilonia] ** (1963, Gordon Scott, Moira Orfei, Geneviève Grad, Piero Lulli, Andrea Scotti) – Classic Movie Review 9091

‘Slave girls sacrificed at the whim of a ruthless king!’ Director Siro Marcellini’s 1963 sword and sandal (peplum) adventure The Hero of Babylon [L’eroe di Babilonia] [Goliath, King of Slaves] [The Beast of Babylon Against […]

Nov, 23

Operation Daybreak ** (1975, Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Anthony Andrews, Anton Diffring, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett) – Classic Movie Review 9,090

Lewis Gilbert’s 1975 wartime historical drama thriller film Operation Daybreak is a well-intentioned account of the Czech underground’s attempt to assassinate SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1975 World War Two wartime historical drama thriller […]

Nov, 22

Opening Night **** (1977, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert)- Classic Movie Review 9,089

Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]

Nov, 22

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