Derek Winnert

84 Charing Cross Road **** (1987, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 9028

Director David Jones’s 1987 drama 84 Charing Cross Road features subtle and affecting performances from Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, bringing to life this glowing and delightful film version of Helene Hanff’s memoirs (and its […]

Oct, 29 · in Reviews

Tom & Viv *** (1994, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace) – Classic Movie Review 9027

Director Brian Gilbert’s 1994 British biographical romantic drama Tom & Viv tells the extraordinary story of the doomed marriage of American poet Tom Eliot [T S Eliot] (Willem Dafoe) and the English aristocrat Vivienne Haigh-Wood […]

Oct, 29 · in Reviews

Luv ** (1967, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Elaine May) – Classic Movie Review 9026

Director Clive Donner’s weird 1967 comedy Luv is the other one-act playlet in the same double bill as in Murray Schisgal’s two-hander, off-Broadway play The Tiger, filmed as The Tiger Makes Out (also 1967) with […]

Oct, 28

The Tiger Makes Out ** (1967, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dishy) – Classic Movie Review 9025

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1967 offbeat drama The Tiger Makes Out stars Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, who re-create their stage roles in Murray Schisgal’s two-hander, one-act off-Broadway play The Tiger as an embittered, middle-aged New […]

Oct, 28

Tiger in the Smoke **** (1956, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles, Alec Clunes, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 9024

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1956 British black and white noir crime thriller Tiger in the Smoke is based on Margery Allingham’s 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke, and stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, […]

Oct, 28

Tiger Shark *** (1932, Edward G Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, J Carrol Naish, Leila Bennett, Vince Barnett) – Classic Movie Review 9023

Tiger Shark (1932) is a love triangle story of the unhappy life and times of unhappy Portuguese tuna fisherman Mike Mascarenhas (Edward G Robinson), as Warner Bros merge elements from Moby Dick, Victorian romance and […]

Oct, 28
Wagons East ** (1994, John Candy, Richard Lewis, Ed Lauter, John C McGinley, Marvin J McIntyre, Ellen Greene, Rodney A Grant, Joe Bays, Abraham Benrubi) – Classic Movie Review 9022

Wagons East ** (1994, John Candy, Richard Lewis, Ed Lauter, John C McGinley, Marvin J McIntyre, Ellen Greene, Rodney A Grant, Joe Bays, Abraham Benrubi) – Classic Movie Review 9022

After making Canadian Bacon, John Candy was filming the disappointingly silly 1860’s Wild West Western spoof Wagons East in Mexico when he had his fatal heart attack on 4 March 1994, aged only 43. Wagons […]

Oct, 27

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