Derek Winnert

The Secret of My Success ** (1965, James Booth, Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones, Honor Blackman, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 8,711

The 1965 British movie The Secret of My Success stars James Booth as a naïve copper who runs into romantic tangles. Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones and Honor Blackman also star in an episodic black comedy […]

Jul, 15 · in Reviews

Once Is Not Enough ** (1975, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Gary Conway, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin) – Classic Movie Review 8710

Director Guy Green’s campy 1975 Once Is Not Enough is a bad enough adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s gossipy, sexy novel, in which struggling old Hollywood mogul Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) weds rich Deidre Granger (Alexis Smith) […]

Jul, 15 · in Reviews

Zeppelin *** (1971, Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten, Marius Goring, Anton Diffring, Andrew Keir, Rupert Davies) – Classic Movie Review 8709

Director Etienne Périer’s 1971 wartime adventure drama Zeppelin is a spiffing, busy and fast-moving schoolboy-style spy yarn with the Brits out to steal World War One German airship secrets and stop a daring commando raid […]

Jul, 15

Zee and Co [X, Y and Zee] ** (1972, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 8708

The trashy 1972 drama film Zee and Co is never going to be regarded as Elizabeth Taylor’s best film, but she really puts everything into it to try to make it work. Director Brian G […]

Jul, 14

Zero Population Growth [Z P G] *** (1972, Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Diane Cilento, Don Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 8707

Director Michael Campus’s intelligent 1972 British-American-Danish sci-fi thriller film Zero Population Growth [Z P G] is handsome looking and has some thoughts in its head, which is always welcome. In the smog-ridden over-populated 21st century, […]

Jul, 14

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events *** (2004, Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, voice of Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 8706

With its marvellously gorgeous production and beautiful gleaming, retro-style photography, director Brad Silberling’s 2004 Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a dream-looking children’s film, based on three of the books by Lemony Snicket […]

Jul, 14

The Lemon Drop Kid *** (1951, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, William Frawley) – Classic Movie Review 8705

Director Sidney Lanfield’s pleasing 1951 black and white comedy stars Bob Hope as New York City swindler Sidney Milburn, aka The Lemon Drop Kid, a race-track tout who owes big bucks to a gangster crook […]

Jul, 14

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