Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Heller in Pink Tights *** (1960, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O’Brien, Steve Forrest, Edmund Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6923

Director George Cukor’s 1960 movie Heller in Pink Tights stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, who give vivacious, attractive performances that boost an amusing, freewheeling comedy Western about an 1880s theatrical troupe who fight Indians, […]

Apr, 15 · in Reviews

The Loves of a Blonde [Lásky jedné plavovlásky] [A Blonde in Love] **** (1965, Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík) – Classic Movie Review 6922

Co-writer/ director Milos Forman’s delightful, fresh and funny 1965 Oscar-nominated Czechoslovak witty comedy tells the story of a pretty young woman called Andula (Hana Brejchová), a shoe factory worker in her fading factory small town in […]

Apr, 15 · in Reviews

The Firemen’s Ball [Horí, má panenko] **** (1967, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha) – Classic Movie Review 6921

Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]

Apr, 15

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

But Not for Me ** (1959, Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 6919

Director Walter Lang’s 1959 drama But Not For Me is a well crafted and nimbly acted but unsparkling vehicle for an ageing Clark Gable, uncomfortably cast as Russ Ward, a has-been Broadway producer of 30 […]

Apr, 14

Plunder of the Sun *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L Sullivan, Sean McClory) – Classic Movie Review 6918

Long concealed ancient Aztec gold lures American insurance agent adventurer Al Colby (Glenn Ford) and his get-rich-quick treasure hunting company on a quest to old Mexico in director John Farrow’s tight, action-packed 1953 adventure film tale […]

Apr, 14

The Hellfire Club *** (1961, Keith Michell, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 6917

‘A body was the membership card in THE HELLFIRE CLUB.’ Robert S Baker and Monty Berman, the team behind a string of Sixties TV hits like The Saint, The Persuaders and Gideon’s Way, produced, directed […]

Apr, 14

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