Derek Winnert

Prophecy * (1979, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 8521

‘She Lives. Don’t Move. Don’t Breathe. She Will Find You.’ Unfortunately, the green-horror crossover genre has never been particularly successful, and director John Frankenheimer’s 1979 killer bear monster movie Prophecy is no exception. Ecology and […]

May, 30 · in Reviews

The Young Stranger **** (1957, James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly) – Classic Movie Review 8520

Tales of Fifties misunderstood youth were ten a penny, but director John Frankenheimer’s 1957 The Young Stranger is a first-class one in the best Rebel Without a Cause tradition, thanks to the playing of James […]

May, 30 · in Reviews

The Young Savages *** (1961, Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 8519

Director John Frankenheimer’s second movie The Young Savages (following The Young Stranger in 1957) is a smartly handled, sincere courtroom drama with a lot of social conscience and a small slice of romance. Burt Lancaster […]

May, 30

Every Little Crook and Nanny *** (1972, Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand) – Classic Movie Review 8518

The 1972 film Every Little Crook and Nanny is a surprisingly entertaining comedy about a mafioso (Victor Mature) losing his 12-year-old son (Phillip Graves) to his nanny (Lynn Redgrave) as she masterminds the kidnapping of […]

May, 29

All Fall Down **** (1962, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Brandon De Wilde, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 8517

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 drama All Fall Down is a distinguished piece of film-making based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the author of Midnight Cowboy, about a young man called Clinton Willart (Brandon […]

May, 29

Air Raid Wardens ** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 8516

Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1943 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Air Raid Wardens stars Stan and Ollie as bankrupt fertiliser dealers, pet-shop owners and cycle store owners, who are turned down for armed service in […]

May, 29

Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] ***** (1937, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault) – Classic Movie Review 8515

Director Marcel Carné’s 1937 French pre-war classic Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] is a marvellously funny and brilliantly inventive black comedy, taken at a breathlessly fast slapstick lick. It is graced with stupendous performances by […]

May, 29

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