Derek Winnert

Yanks **** (1979, Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane) – Classic Movie Review 8648

Director John Schlesinger’s 1979 wartime romantic drama Yanks is strongly cast, well acted, attractively written by Colin Welland (story and screenplay) and Walter Bernstein (screenplay), and handsomely produced by Joseph Janni and Lester Persky. Schlesinger’s romantic […]

Jun, 28 · in Reviews

Wilson *** (1944, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 8647

Opportunity knocks for Alexander Knox, who grabs it to give a careful, painstaking and impressive star turn as US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), rising from president at Princeton to governor of New Jersey to […]

Jun, 28 · in Reviews

The Champagne Murders ** (1967, Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 8646

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1967 thriller The Champagne Murders [Le Scandale] is an unexpected misfire from Chabrol during his best period, with Maurice Ronet starring as Paul Wagner, an oddball playboy who may be a murderer. […]

Jun, 27

The Terminal Man **** (1974, George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Jill Clayburgh) – Classic Movie Review 8645

Writer-director Mike Hodges’s fascinating 1974 Sci-Fi horror thriller The Terminal Man is based on the 1972 novel by Michael Crichton and stars George Segal as brainy computer scientist Harry Benson, who suffers from epilepsy and has […]

Jun, 27

A Little Night Music ** (1977, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Guard, Laurence Guittard) – Classic Movie Review 8644

Director Hal Prince’s 1977 musical A Little Night Music tells the tale of a weekend in the country, so exciting, for philandering middle-aged actress Desirée (Elizabeth Taylor), her canny old mother Madame Armfeldt (Hermione Gingold), […]

Jun, 27

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane **** (1976, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Scott Jacoby) – Classic Movie Review 8643

Director Nicolas Gessner’s 1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a dark, taut, extremely well-done Grand Guignol suspense thriller, teetering on the edge of bad taste. Jodie Foster stars as the 13-year-old […]

Jun, 26

London Belongs to Me [Dulcimer Street] **** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8642

Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]

Jun, 26

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