Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The National Health **** (1973, Jim Dale, Lynn Redgrave, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 7015

Director Jack Gold’s 1973 wickedly funny British black comedy is based on Peter Nichols’s smashing hit play, attacking the deficiencies in The British National Health System, the failures of British socialism and the erosion of […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

The Deadly Trap [La maison sous les arbres] ** (1971, Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins) – Classic Movie Review 7014

Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Lady Godiva of Coventry ** (1955, Maureen O’Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen, Eduard Franz, Torin Thatcher, Robert Warwick, Rex Reason, Rhodes Reason) – Classic Movie Review 7013

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 historical adventure, or rather unhistorical adventure, is a poorly written, weakly played, blatantly inaccurate, boring biopic with Maureen O’Hara starring forlornly as the streaker-pioneer who rides nude through Coventry town, ignored by […]

May, 06

Ash Wednesday * (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 7,012

The 1973 mystery drama film Ash Wednesday is a hysterical farrago, with Elizabeth Taylor as a married woman in her 50s trying to make herself look young via gross plastic surgery in Italy, where she […]

May, 06

Les Félins [The Love Cage] [Joy House] *** (1964, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 7,011

The fabulous Fonda gets involved with the delicious Delon in the 1964 French black-and-white mystery thriller The Love Cage [Joy House]. ‘The Women of the “Joy House” Allowed Him Every Freedom… Except the Freedom to […]

May, 06

Love on the Dole **** (1941, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Geoffrey Hibbert, Frank Pettingell, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 7010

Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]

May, 06

The Love Specialist [La ragazza del palio] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Valeri, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 7009

Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]

May, 06

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