Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Uncategorized

Little Lord Fauntleroy ** (1980, Ricky Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 8641

Director Jack Gold’s 1980 family romantic drama Little Lord Fauntleroy is well crafted and decently acted, and has its appeal, but, as a Victorian heart-tugger, it is way out of its time. It was made […]

Jun, 25

The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640

Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]

Jun, 25

The Champ ** (1979, Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder) – Classic Movie Review 8639

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1979 love-triangle boxing movie tearjerker The Champ is a soggy remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper weepie The Champ, hopelessly out of its time five decades later, with Jon Voight out […]

Jun, 25

Yours, Mine and Ours *** (1968, Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 8638

Director Melville Shavelson’s 1968 family film Yours, Mine and Ours is the true-story based comedy in which widowed dad of 10 children Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) weds widowed mother of eight kids, Helen North Beardsley […]

Jun, 25

Fighting Man of the Plains *** (1949, Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 8637

Though nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary, director Edwin L Marin’s 1949 movie Fighting Man of the Plains is a good, solid action Western. Frank Gruber writes the screenplay, based on his novel. Randolph […]

Jun, 25

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