Alan Ayckbourn’s brilliant 1983 bittersweet comedy play A Chorus of Disapproval, originally performed at Britain’s National Theatre, comes to the screen in 1988 produced and directed by Michael Winner and with a starry, starry cast […]
In 1983, director Michael Winner remakes the old 1945 Gainsborough Studios bodice-ripper The Wicked Lady, with all the excesses he was famed for. It is an old-fashioned costume romp spiced up with sex and nudity. […]
Director Michael Winner’s unpleasant 1993 British movie Dirty Weekend turns Helen Zahavi’s praised feminist book into a female version of Winner’s own Death Wish movies, in which Lia Williams stars as Bella, a woman justly […]
Writer/ producer/ director Michael Winner gathers his friends around him for his reasonably entertaining 1998 black comedy film Parting Shots, which proved to be his parting shot as his final movie. Chris Rea stars as failed […]
Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]
Michael Winner’s 1965 British black and white comedy You Must Be Joking! stars Terry-Thomas as Major Foskett, a psychologist who gets oddball officers to perform an initiative test to find the best soldier. Director Michael Winner […]
The 1963 British musical The Cool Mikado is Gilbert and Sullivan according to Michael Winner, which includes space for comedy gods Frankie Howerd and Tommy Cooper. Kevin Scott plays Hank Mikado. His father, American judge […]
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