Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Caesar and Cleopatra *** (1945, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Cecil Parker, Flora Robson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 7427

George Bernard Shaw’s clever, though minor play Caesar and Cleopatra is perfectly cast for the screen in 1945: Claude Rains as the ageing Roman conqueror Julius Caesar and Vivien Leigh as the young Nile beauty […]

Aug, 11

The Happy Ending *** (1969, Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Teresa Wright) – Classic Movie Review 7426

Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s 1969 drama The Happy Ending stars Jean Simmons as a middle-aged American woman who looks back on a long, unhappy marriage as she walks out on her husband and family in order […]

Aug, 11

The Meg * (2018, Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson) – Movie Review

Okay, so we are not expecting a remake of Citizen Kane any time soon from Jason Statham, but really The Meg’s pretty much the dregs. It says something about where we are today that this is the […]

Aug, 10

Young Billy Young *** (1969, Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7425

Writer-director Burt Kennedy’s 1969 Young Billy Young is a handsomely produced Western with a grim-looking Robert Mitchum as a peace-loving, but dogged lawman, First Deputy Ben Kane, seeking his son’s killer. Kane takes a job […]

Aug, 10

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