Derek Winnert

Waltz of the Toreadors ** (1962, Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 7434

Jean Anouilh’s French farce Waltz of the Toreadors is filmed in Britain in 1962 by director John Guillermin as a vehicle for Peter Sellers playing a lecherous old general, Gen Leo Fitzjohn, who retires to his Sussex […]

Aug, 12 · in Reviews

Life at the Top *** (1965, Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 7433

Director Ted Kotcheff’s modest but diverting enough 1965 drama Life at the Top is the soap-opera-style sequel to Room at the Top (1959) that, even while it entertains, misses the quality and bitter taste of the […]

Aug, 12 · in Reviews

How to Make an American Quilt *** (1995, Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 7432

Director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1995 American drama How to Make an American Quilt is based on the 1991 novel by Whitney Otto, with a screenplay by Jane Anderson, and stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for […]

Aug, 11

Divorce American Style *** (1967, Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 7,431

The acerbically witty 1967 comedy film Divorce American Style finds Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds well paired as a warring married couple. Norman Lear was an Oscar nominee for his screenplay. Director Bud Yorkin’s […]

Aug, 11

Rough Night in Jericho ** (1967, Dean Martin, Jean Simmons, George Peppard, John McIntire, Slim Pickens, Don Galloway) – Classic Movie Review 7430

Despite an interesting set-up and the strong efforts of the very good cast, director Arnold Laven’s 1967 Rough Night in Jericho is a tediously unsurprising Western that recycles the tired old stereotypes yet again, with […]

Aug, 11

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys *** (1969, Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 7429

Following Young Billy Young, director Burt Kennedy immediately teams up again with Robert Mitchum for this light-hearted 1969 follow-up Western The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, in which Mitchum plays Marshal Flagg, a creaky […]

Aug, 11

Major Barbara **** (1941, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Marie Lohr, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 7428

Major Barbara is the pick of producer-director Gabriel Pascal’s attempts to bring George Bernard Shaw to the movies, with Wendy Hiller starring nobly as the Salvation Army girl Major Barbara Undershaft, who quits when they […]

Aug, 11

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