Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

Beloved Infidel ** (1959, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7562

Famed, all-time-great American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s last, struggling drink-sodden years as a 1930s pre-World War Two Hollywood scriptwriter, and his torrid affair with witty young English columnist Sheilah Graham while his wife Zelda is in an […]

Sep, 12

Steelyard Blues **** (1973, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 7561

After their 1971 big hit Klute, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland were right to team up again for director Alan Myerson’s 1973 Steelyard Blues. It is a much less compelling but still quite endearing oddity about […]

Sep, 12

The Fighting Prince of Donegal *** (1966, Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 7560

Director Michael O’Herlihy’s 1966 The Fighting Prince of Donegal stars Peter McEnery as the peace-loving but brash young rebel Irishman Hugh O’Donnell, who inherits the title of Prince of Donegal. He is kidnapped and jailed by […]

Sep, 12

Smokey and the Bandit II *** (1980, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick) – Classic Movie Review 7559

Director Hal Needham’s 1980 action comedy sequel Smokey and the Bandit II (aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again) brings Burt Reynolds back from the 1977 hit original Smokey and the Bandit as truck driver […]

Sep, 11

The Game Is Over [La Curée] ** (1966, Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery) – Classic Movie Review 7558

Director Roger Vadim’s teasingly steamy 1966 The Game Is Over [La curée] stars Jane Fonda in her glorious prime as Renée Saccard, the selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman Alexandre (Michel Piccoli), who falls […]

Sep, 11

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