Derek Winnert

Savage Messiah **** (1972, Scott Anthony, Dorothy Tutin, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough, John Justin, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 7867

Director Ken Russell’s 1972 biographical drama Savage Messiah is a passionate pre-World War One biopic of the French painter-sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and older Polish woman Sophie Brzeska. It is a miniaturist masterwork from Russell in a […]

Dec, 01 · in Reviews

Valentino *** (1977, Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal) – Classic Movie Review 7866

The 1977 biopic Valentino is The Smouldering One according to provocative director Ken Russell and his magnetic dancing star Rudolf Nureyev. As in the 1951 film, also called Valentino, the story bears little resemblance to […]

Dec, 01 · in Reviews

Valentino ** (1951, Eleanor Parker, Anthony Dexter, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 7865

Director Lewis Allen’s 1951 Technicolor adventure drama biopic Valentino is misleadingly billed as the life story of film legend Rudolph Valentino and stars near lookalike Anthony Dexter, who at least looks right in his film debut as Rudolph Valentino, in […]

Dec, 01

The Brigand ** (1952, Anthony Dexter, Anthony Quinn, Gale Robbins, Jody Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7864

Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]

Dec, 01

The Bespoke Overcoat ***** (1955, David Kossoff, Alfie Bass, Alf Dean, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 7863

The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]

Dec, 01

Berth Marks *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7862

‘Mr Hardy told Mr Laurel to meet him at Santa Fe Station at a quarter of ten – but Mr Laurel became confused and thought he meant 9:45.’ Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 Berth Marks […]

Dec, 01

They Go Boom! *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin) – Classic Movie Review 7861

‘Mr Hardy had the sniffles – his carburetor hadn’t been right for days and days.’ Stan Laurel ministers to Oliver Hardy, who has got a terrible cold, but naturally he soon nearly wrecks the place, […]

Dec, 01

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