Derek Winnert

The Great Waltz ** (1972, Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa, Nigel Patrick, Rossano Brazzi, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 8,181

MGM remakes their 1938 movie The Great Waltz about Johann Strauss Jr in 1972, this time starring Horst Buchholz as the composer. Romantic and old-fashioned, it was the last film in Cinerama. Director Andrew L […]

Feb, 28 · in Reviews

The Great Mouse Detective *** (1986, voices of Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin) – Classic Movie Review 8180

Walt Disney’s fun 1986 family animation adventure The Great Mouse Detective is a rodent reworking of the Sherlock Holmes stories, inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, who remains uncredited. The main characters are […]

Feb, 28 · in Reviews

The Great Outdoors ** (1988, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 8179

‘The wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law is unbearable.’ Director Howard Deutch’s amiable but slack 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors at least starts with the benefit of a strong, game star cast of Dan Aykroyd, […]

Feb, 28

Goodbye Gemini (1970, Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 8178

Goodbye Gemini (1970) ended up listed as a video nasty. Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play Chelsea teenage sister and brother twins up to their pretty necks in a pretty offensive plot. Director Alan Gibson’s […]

Feb, 27

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly [Girly] (1970, Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Howard Trevor, Vanessa Howard) – Classic Movie Review 8177

Director Freddie Francis’s twisted, sick 1970 British horror movie Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly [aka Girly] is The Addams Family without the laughs. It is an appalling, shockingly inept shocker about two crazy teens, Sonny […]

Feb, 27

The Great Man’s Lady *** (1942, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 8176

Producer-director William A Wellman’s 1941 The Great Man’s Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as a centenarian pioneer woman called Hannah Sempler Hoyt, who looks back over her life as the wife of pioneer Ethan Hoyt (Joel […]

Feb, 27

The Great Muppet Caper *** (1981, voices of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Steve Whitmire) – Classic Movie Review 8175

Director Jim Henson’s Muppets again feature in the 1981 The Great Muppet Caper, a much-improved sequel to the 1979 first caper The Muppet Movie, with a amiable selection of largely British performers, raising reliable laughs. […]

Feb, 27

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