Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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