Derek Winnert

French without Tears *** (1940, Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey) – Classic Movie Review 7576

Terence Rattigan’s famous 1936 play about adult British pupils at a language cramming school in the south of France has lost a little wit on its way to the cinema. It follows the love affairs of […]

Sep, 15 · in Reviews

Go West *** (1925, Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers) – Classic Movie Review 7575

Buster Keaton’s amiable and deservedly well liked 1925 silent comedy Go West finds the great comic homeless and friendless. So he puts all his possessions on his bed and drags it westwards to California, where he […]

Sep, 14 · in Reviews

Go West *** (1940, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 7574

The Marx Brothers go forth for director Edward Buzzell’s 1940 Go West, their fourth movie at MGM studios. Go West is a rickety cowboy comedy movie which sees their zaniness on remote control, but the […]

Sep, 14

Semi-Tough *** (1977, Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh) – Classic Movie Review 7573

Burt Reynolds is at his amiable best in director Michael Ritchie’s amusing 1977 satirical comedy Semi-Tough, based on Dan Jenkins’s 1972 novel about two football players with a mutual girlfriend. Three’s company for footballer Billy […]

Sep, 14

The End *** (1978, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Robby Benson, Kristy McNichol, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Pat O’Brien, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 7572

The 1978 movie The End is good tasteless, crazy black comedy fun from Burt Reynolds, with the star directing himself as Wendell Sonny Lawson, a Woody Allen-style hypochondriac who however learns he has a year […]

Sep, 13

Gator *** (1976, Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Reed, Alice Ghostley, Dub Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7571

The always engaging Burt Reynolds stars again as former con man and black-marketeer Gator McKlusky, who is forced by agents to find some dirt on an old buddy turned politician, in the 1976 crime thriller Gator, […]

Sep, 13

White Lightning *** (1973, Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Matt Clark, Bo Hopkins, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd) – Classic Movie Review 7570

Director Joseph Sargent’s 1973 movie White Lightning is a good vehicle for Burt Reynolds, who plays convict Gator McKlusky, who is released from jail to help the Feds to chase sadistic lawman Sheriff J C Connors […]

Sep, 13

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