Derek Winnert

The Happiest Millionaire *** (1967, Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, John Davidson, Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ann Warren, Geraldine Page, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 8532

Director Norman Tokar’s 1967 The Happiest Millionaire is the last live-action film supervised personally as producer by Walt Disney (uncredited), though Bill Anderson is credited producer. It is a large-scale musical, with a modern-day Romeo […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

Mad Dog Coll ** (1961, John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8531

John Davis Chandler stars as notorious Thirties gangland killer Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (born on 20 July 1908), an Irish-American mob hitman, in director Burt Balaban’s fictionalised 1961 biographical crime drama Mad Dog Coll. He […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

Follow Me, Boys! *** (1966, Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish) – Classic Movie Review 8530

Director Norman Tokar’s syrupy but successful 1966 Disney confection Follow Me, Boys! stars Fred MacMurray as big-city 30s saxophonist Lemuel Siddons, who sets up home in an Illinois countryside town, falls in love with and […]

Jun, 01

Hog Wild **** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8529

Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short Hog Wild finds Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at their finest and funniest in a continuous series of perfectly carried out gags, with the most intricate attention paid to […]

May, 31

The Fourth War ** (1990, Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 8528

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]

May, 31

The Horsemen ** (1971, Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 8527

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1971 macho action adventure drama The Horsemen is propelled with a sterling performance by Omar Sharif as Uraz, the son of sheikh Tursen (Jack Palance), wounded and humiliated in a barbaric variant […]

May, 31

The Holcroft Covenant (1985, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 8526

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1985 The Holcroft Covenant is a risible political thriller based on Robert Ludlum’s potboiling yarn about the clash over the fate of a $4,000 million potentially dangerous bequest by a German General […]

May, 31

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