Derek Winnert

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days *** (1979, William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 8138

Likeable young stars Tom Berenger (as Butch Cassidy) and William Katt (as the Sundance Kid) are cast as near lookalikes for their predecessors Paul Newman and Robert Redford in director Richard Lester’s 1979 Butch and […]

Feb, 16 · in Reviews

At Long Last Love ** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, John Hillerman, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 8137

With the world at his feet after the brilliant The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon, writer-producer-director Peter Bogdanovich wanted to pay homage to the Thirties Hollywood heyday musical, and Fred Astaire […]

Feb, 15 · in Reviews

At Gunpoint *** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8136

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1955 Western for Allied Artists Pictures, At Gunpoint [Gunpoint], stars Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone, who give strong, intense portrayals. This handsomely mounted Western boasts a well-trodden plot about an upright, peaceful […]

Feb, 15

Guns at Batasi **** (1964, Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins, John Leyton, Cecil Parker, Mia Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 8135

Director John Guillermin’s fascinating 1964 African-set adventure movie Guns at Batasi, with a theme about the passing of British colonialism, is greatly invigorated by stiff-lipped performances by Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins and Cecil […]

Feb, 15

Gunpoint *** (1966, Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens, Edgar Buchanan, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 8134

Director Earl Bellamy’s 1966 Universal Pictures Technicolor Western Gunpoint stars Audie Murphy as Colorado sheriff Chad Lucas, who points his ill-assorted posse into New Mexico after the ruthless gang of bandits, led by Drago Leon (Morgan […]

Feb, 15

Gunn *** (1967, Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 8133

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s satisfying 1967 thriller Gunn is the tough cinema feature movie of his TV series Peter Gunn (1958-61), with Craig Stevens repeating his smooth laconic Cary Grant-style performance as the suave, stylishly […]

Feb, 15

That Kind of Woman *** (1959, Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, George Sanders, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 8132

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1959 drama That Kind of Woman is the soapy melodramatic romantic tale of a society woman, Kay (Sophia Loren), giving up the high life with her wealthy industrialist fancy man A L […]

Feb, 14

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