Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

A Tale of Two Cities **** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Christopher Lee, Athene Seyler, Rosalie Crutchley, Ernest Clark, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 6937

Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

A Tale of Two Cities ***** (1935, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 6936

Director Jack Conway’s 1935 historical romantic drama A Tale of Two Cities stars an ideally cast Ronald Colman, who is noble and stirring as alcoholic English lawyer Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself to save his former […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

Taking Off **** (1971, Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel) – Classic Movie Review 6935

Czech director Milos Forman’s highly promising 1971 American film debut is a fresh and funny, deftly handled and amusingly scripted generation-gap satire about a middle-aged couple Lynn and Larry Tyne (Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry) who […]

Apr, 17

Hair **** (1979, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 6,934

The great Sixties Broadway hippy stage rock musical Hair was filmed in 1979 with vibrant young stars John Savage and Treat Williams as New York hippies who revolt and burn their draft cards when faced […]

Apr, 17

Swiss Family Robinson **** (1960, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Janet Munro, Sussue Hayakawa, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6933

Director Ken Annakin’s 1960 young people’s adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson is an old-style treat, a happy, well-produced, and thoroughly entertaining Disney version of the shipwrecked family stranded on a desert island saga. Based on […]

Apr, 16

Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932

Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]

Apr, 16

Swiss Miss ***½ (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Charles Judels, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 6931

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 comedy stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as cheesy mousetrap sellers in the Swiss Alps, who get swindled out of their money by a cheesemaker and become waiters at a […]

Apr, 16

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