Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "based on novel"

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Gone to Earth *** (1950, Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 5504

Writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 19th-century saga stars Jennifer Jones as Hazel Woodus, an untamed, superstitious Shropshire gypsy lass who is stirred by a lusty, lonely fox-hunting squire called Jack Reddin (David Farrar) but […]

May, 26

Heaven’s Prisoners *** (1995, Alec Baldwin, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kelly Lynch, Teri Hatcher, Eric Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5436

Alec Baldwin showcases his hardened neo-Bogart tough-guy turn again to much advantage as director Phil Joanou turns up the heat on this tough-edged, hardboiled 1995 thriller. Baldwin plays Dave Robicheaux, the drink-addicted ex-New Orleans cop […]

May, 12

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing *** (1975, Helen Hayes, Peter Ustinov, Derek Nimmo, Clive Revill, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 5430

Director Robert Stevenson’s old-style 1975 Twenties period Walt Disney dinosaur family adventure comedy movie offers plenty of good fun and frolics. It stars Peter Ustinov, dodgily cast as Hnup Wan of the Chinese London Intelligence Office, […]

May, 11

Jassy ***½ (1947, Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price, Basil Sydney, Dermot Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 5424

Director Bernard Knowles’s big-budget 1947 British romance Jassy stars Margaret Lockwood, who throws herself eagerly and with gay abandon into the role of the steamy, second-sighted gypsy Jassy Woodroofe, taken in as servant to Nick […]

May, 09

The Devil’s Hairpin *** (1957, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Arthur Franz, Mary Astor, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 5345

This 1957 car racing drama, filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision is a credit to Cornel Wilde (aka Kornél Lajos Weisz), who wears four different hats here as star, producer, co-writer and director. He produces for […]

Apr, 26

Inspiration ** (1931, Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 5322

Producer-director Clarence Brown’s rarely shown 1931 MGM movie is a plush but uninspired romantic vehicle for the great Greta Garbo. She stars as Yvonne Valbret, a Parisian bohemian artists’ model who has to say goodbye […]

Apr, 19

Inside Daisy Clover ***½ (1965, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 5,308

The polished 1965 Hollywood satirical drama film Inside Daisy Clover stars a fine team in Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, and Ruth Gordon, who won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress. The polished 1965 […]

Apr, 17

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