Derek Winnert

The Man Upstairs *** (1958, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 8823

Director Don Chaffey’s 1958 black and white British thriller The Man Upstairs stars Richard Attenborough in the downbeat but involving story of apartment block tenant Peter Watson, The Man Upstairs who is having a nervous […]

Aug, 12 · in Uncategorized

The Quince Tree Sun [El Sol Del Membrillo] ***** (1992) – Classic Movie Review 8822

Director Victor Erice’s 1992 Spanish drama The Quince Tree Sun [El Sol Del Membrillo] is a hypnotic rumination on art and life, taken at an audaciously sedate pace and at considerable length by Erice, who […]

Aug, 12 · in Uncategorized

La Traviata **** (1982, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil) – Classic Movie Review 8822

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]

Aug, 12

Lady of the Camelias [La Dame aux Camélias] [La storia vera della signora dalle camelie] *** (1981, Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz) – Classic Movie Review 8,821

The 1981 French-Italian romantic drama film Lady of the Camelias stars Isabelle Huppert and tells the actual story of Alphonsine Plessis, who became a famous courtesan in Paris and inspired the novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas Fils. […]

Aug, 12

Simba *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna, Earl Cameron, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 8820

Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1955 adventure drama Simba is a surprisingly effective, tough and well-made Rank studios film about a British family of settlers in East Africa besieged by Kenya’s Mau Mau terrorists. The British […]

Aug, 11

A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] ** (1968, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian) – Classic Movie Review 8819

Director Francesco Maselli’s below-par 1968 Swinging Sixties Italian comedy thriller A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] stars Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, reunited from Blindfold (1966), who make a fine pair as a married […]

Aug, 11

Blindfold *** (1966, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter, Anne Seymour, Alejandro Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8818

Co-writer/ director Philip Dunne’s enjoyable 1965 Swinging Sixties comedy crime mystery thriller Blindfold stars Rock Hudson as a New York psychiatrist, Dr Bartholomew Snow, who is hired by American general Prat (Jack Warden) and his […]

Aug, 11

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