Derek Winnert

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing ** (1973, Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton, Bo Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 7569

Alas director Richard C Sarafian’s 1973 Western The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing offers no cat dancing, thus disappointing cat lovers everywhere. Instead, the title refers to Burt Reynolds’s character Jay Grobart’s squaw wife, one […]

Sep, 13 · in Reviews

Stick ** (1985, Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 7568

An Elmore Leonard novel about an ex-convict sucked into Florida’s drugs underworld is patchily transferred to the screen as a rickety crime action thriller vehicle for the always likeable Burt Reynolds, both as actor and […]

Sep, 13 · in Articles

The Man Who Loved Women ** (1983, Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Sela Ward, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes, Jennifer Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 7567

In 1983 it seemed almost inevitable that the project of Americanising François Truffaut’s 1977 French romantic comedy L’Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) would fall to director Blake Edwards and that he […]

Sep, 13

City Heat ** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco) – Classic Movie Review 7566

Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 period crime action comedy City Heat is a fairly damaging moment in the careers of Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood as both stars are forced to flounder desperately in a vacuum […]

Sep, 13

The Glass Menagerie *** (1987, Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton) – Classic Movie Review 7565

Paul Newman expertly and sensitively directs the Tennessee Williams hothouse drama The Glass Menagerie for the big screen, showing his special affinity with the material. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward is extremely impressive as the nagging, […]

Sep, 12

The Glass Menagerie *** (1973, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Moriarty, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7564

Four first-class performances light up the excellent new script for television of Tennessee Williams’s play in director Anthony Harvey’s 1973 TV movie The Glass Menagerie. It won four Primetime Emmys. Katharine Hepburn is battling the […]

Sep, 12

The Glass Menagerie *** (1950, Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7563

Unfortunately, director Irving Rapper’s 1950 The Glass Menagerie is not an ideal version of one of Tennessee Williams’s most intriguing plays about life in St Louis, thanks to its plodding pace, uncinematic filming and the […]

Sep, 12

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