Derek Winnert

No Road Back ** (1957, Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland, Margaret Rawlings, Eleanor Summerfield, Alfie Bass, Sean Connery, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 8032

Six years after his first London stage appearance in South Pacific, Connery, aged 27, makes his film debut proper as Spike in a small part in director Montgomery Tully’s 1957 British black and white B-movie […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

Family Business *** (1989, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8031

Sean Connery has good fun with his role as an ageing small-time hoodlum, a career criminal called Jessie, in director Sidney Lumet’s excellent, well-plotted 1989 heist thriller Family Business. It is sharply directed by Lumet, […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

Easy Money ** (1983, Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 8030

Director James Signorelli’s 1983 comedy Easy Money stars Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti, a grotesquely self-indulgent child portraitist who is left a huge inheritance by his immensely rich mother-in-law Mrs Monahan (Geraldine Fitzgerald) if he […]

Jan, 18

Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029

Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]

Jan, 18

The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] ***** (1952, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Eitarô Shindô) – Classic Movie Review 8028

Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1952 The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] is a world cinema classic, with a remarkable performance by Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a 17th-century samurai’s daughter who leads a life of […]

Jan, 18

Walker *** (1987, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 8027

Director Alex Cox’s 1987 political adventure Walker is about a real-life 1850s American mercenary leader called William Walker (Ed Harris) who is funded to invade Nicaragua, join up with the liberal forces and defeat the corrupt […]

Jan, 18

The Oklahoman **½ (1957, Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 8,026

Director Francis D Lyon’s sturdy 1957 American Western film for Allied Artists, The Oklahoman, stars Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale and Brad Dexter. It is attractively shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour by Carl E Guthrie. […]

Jan, 17

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