Derek Winnert

I Ought to Be in Pictures *** (1982, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff) – Classic Movie Review 8318

Director Herbert Ross’s 1982 I Ought to Be in Pictures is a minor Neil Simon comedy drama from Walter Matthau’s latter period of decline, but it is still a fairly pleasing picture. Dinah Manoff tries […]

Mar, 31 · in Reviews

The Freshman **** (1925, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict) – Classic Movie Review 8317

Hamfisted Harold Lloyd stars in directors Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor’s 1925 The Freshman, a happy Twenties college comedy, which was a burgeoning genre at the time. Lloyd plays clumsy college boy Harold ‘Speedy’ Lamb, […]

Mar, 31 · in Reviews

Caboblanco [Cabo Blanco] * (1980, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda) – Classic Movie Review 8316

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1980 Charles Bronson vehicle Caboblanco [Cabo Blanco] is a faintly absurd, ineptly made romantic adventure thriller, remotely based on Casablanca apparently, but without properly understanding its appeal. One-time Nazis, fleeing post-World […]

Mar, 31

Cabin in the Sky **** (1943, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 8315

The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]

Mar, 31

Untamed *** (1955, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead, Rita Moreno, Hope Emerson, Brad Dexter, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8314

Director Henry King’s 1955 DeLuxe colour and widescreen adventure Untamed is a busy, complex, handsome-looking, well-done African epic, in which Tyrone Power stars as Boer leader Paul Van Riebeck, who romances impetuous colleen Katie O’Neill […]

Mar, 30

Godspell *** (1973, Victor Garber, David Haskell, Jerry Sroka, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, Robin Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8313

Director David Greene’s 1973 film of the deliberately naïve hit musical Godspell (a stage hit for David Essex in Britain) by Stephen Schwartz (music) and John Michael Tebelak (lyrics) turns the story of Christ into […]

Mar, 30

Thunderbirds Are GO *** (1966, voices of Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, Paul Maxwell, Neil McCallum, Shane Rimmer) – Classic Movie Review 8312

Yes, Thunderbirds are go in writer-producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s classic Sixties puppet action sci-fi adventure Thunderbirds Are GO based on the children’s TV stories of the adventures of International Rescue. This time it’s Thunderbirds […]

Mar, 30

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