Derek Winnert

I Love You, Alice B Toklas! *** (1968, Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman) – Classic Movie Review 8547

The Jewish middle-class and Sixties hippie cultures are satirised in director Hy Averback’s unevenly amusing 1968 comedy I Love You, Alice B Toklas!, with Peter Sellers on form as a mild West Coast lawyer taking […]

Jun, 04 · in Reviews

The Happening *** (1967, Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 8546

Director Elliot Silverstein’s 1967 dark comedy The Happening takes us back to the Sixties when there were happenings and hippies banded together to abduct businessmen. The Happening is soppy but cheerful stuff, at least until […]

Jun, 04 · in Uncategorized

The Hit **** (1984, Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8545

The 1984 British movie The Hit is a tough, slightly arty but nail-biting crime thriller directed with flair by Stephen Frears with much of the ironic neo noir style he shows in Gumshoe and The […]

Jun, 03

The History of Mr Polly **** (1949, John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Betty Ann Davies, Edward Chapman, Diana Churchill, Gladys Henson, Miles Malleson) – Classic Movie Review 8544

H G Wells’s comic novel The History of Mr Polly is effectively and brightly brought to the screen in 1948 with a witty screenplay by writer-director Anthony Pelissier and one of John Mills’s best performances […]

Jun, 03

In Praise of Older Women *** (1978, Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Susan Strasberg, Helen Shaver, Alexandra Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 8543

Director George Kaczender’s enjoyably sexy 1978 Canadian romantic comedy drama In Praise of Older Women stars the ideally cast young and hunky Tom Berenger, who has a good time as the callow, curly-topped hunk Andras […]

Jun, 03

In Old Chicago ***** (1938, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Tom Brown) – Classic Movie Review 8542

Director Henry King’s 1938 In Old Chicago is a sumptuous, beautifully acted and thoroughly enjoyable, fanciful tale of old Chicago running up to the Great Fire of 1871. Alice Brady picked up a best supporting […]

Jun, 03

In Old California *** (1942, John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 8541

Director William C McGann’s 1942 action romance Western In Old California stars John Wayne, trying to stretch his range and acting muscles a little to play a Boston pharmacist! Wayne, not your usual Hollywood bespectacled pharmacist, […]

Jun, 03

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