Derek Winnert

Johnny Dangerously *** (1984, Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Richard Dimitri, Glynnis O’Connor, Dom DeLuise, Ray Walston, Danny DeVito) – Classic Movie Review 8406

Director Amy Heckerling’s 1984 comedy Johnny Dangerously stars Michael Keaton, who leads an amiable cast in a Thirties gangster spoof that falls slightly short of the target but still is amusing a lot of the […]

Apr, 28 · in Reviews

The Killer Elite **** (1975, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Gig Young, Bo Hopkins, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 8405

James Caan said he made the 1975 American crime action thriller The Killer Elite only because his advisers told him to work with Sam Peckinpah, and he rated it a zero on a scale of […]

Apr, 27 · in Reviews

Once Upon a Time *** (1944, Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson) – Classic Movie Review 8404

Director Alexander Hall’s 1944 black and white satirical comedy Once Upon a Time stars Cary Grant as Jerry Flynn, a canny but cash-strapped theatre producer about to go bust, and story is about the hit […]

Apr, 27

La kermesse héroïque [Carnival in Flanders] **** (1935, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, André Alerme, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 8403

Director Jacques Feyder’s 1935 La kermesse héroïque [Carnival in Flanders] is a bright French romantic comedy adventure that puts a bawdy spin on the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, in which 17th-century Flemish […]

Apr, 27

Keoma **** (1976, Franco Nero, William Berger, Orso Maria Guerrini, Joshua Sinclair, Olga Karlatos, Donald O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 8402

Franco Nero stars in director Enzo G Castellari’s classic 1976 vigilante Spaghetti Western Keoma, as the mixed-race half-Indian ex-Union gunfighter Keoma Shannon, who tries to protect his plague-ridden home town from being overridden by his […]

Apr, 27

My Name Is Nobody [Il mio nome è Nessuno] **** (1973, Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin, R G Armstrong, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8401

Sergio Leone had the idea for and executive produces director Tonino Valerii’s 1973 Italian film My Name Is Nobody [Il Mio Nome E Nessuno], a delightfully flamboyant, undervalued spoof of his Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. […]

Apr, 27

Cattle Empire *** (1958, Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates) – Classic Movie Review 8400

Joel McCrea stars in the 1958 Western movie Cattle Empire as an ex-con called John Cord, who enlists as a cattle-drive trail boss to avenge himself on the cattlemen who had got him into prison. […]

Apr, 26

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