Derek Winnert

The Rainbow Jacket ** (1954, Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Edward Underdown) – Classic Movie Review 8663

Director Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios Technicolor sports drama The Rainbow Jacket stars Bill Owen as Sam, an experienced (but not entirely straight) champion jockey, banned from the races, who shows a youngster called Georgie […]

Jun, 30 · in Reviews

The Next Man ** (1976, Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi, Charles Cioffi) – Classic Movie Review 8662

Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1976 The Next Man stars Sean Connery, who is awkwardly cast as Khalil Abdul-Muhsen, an influential Saudi Arabian diplomatic ambassador seeking to make to make peace with Israel by negotiating a […]

Jun, 30 · in Reviews

Fragment of Fear *** (1970, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde White, Roland Culver, Daniel Massey, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 8,661

The stylish if impenetrable 1970 British mystery thriller film Fragment of Fear stars husband and wife David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt. Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1970 British film Fragment of Fear is a stylish and […]

Jun, 30

Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] **** (1939, Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Tim Holt, James Ellison, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 8660

Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]

Jun, 29

The Fifteen Streets *** (1989, Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Clare Holman, Ian Bannen, Jane Horrocks, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Windsor, Anny Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 8659

Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]

Jun, 29

Taris, roi de l’eau [Taris] **** (1931, Jean Taris) – Classic Movie Review 8658

Jean Vigo films the French swimming champion Jean Taris performing different swimming acts as he gives us a tour of his water kingdom in the 10-minute avant garde 1931 sport documentary short film Taris, roi […]

Jun, 29

À Propos de Nice ***** (1930, director Jean Vigo) – Classic Movie Review 8657

Jean Vigo’s deservedly acclaimed 1929 avant-garde ‘point-of-view’ documentary A Propos de Nice satirises the difference between the rich tourists promenading in the sun on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on the French Cote d’Azur […]

Jun, 29

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