Derek Winnert

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Thunder Rock *** (1942, Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Barbara Mullen ) – Classic Movie Review 10,533

‘Strange Emotions Stir the Pulse… when LOVE and PASSION clash in the world’s loneliest outpost!’ David Charleston (Michael Redgrave): ‘For all humanity I make one wish: let the people die off fast.’ Director Roy Boulting’s […]

Nov, 12

Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476

‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]

Oct, 16

The Conformist [Il Conformista] ***** (1970, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 3182

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative, impressive, unsettling 1970 psychological thriller The Conformist [Il Conformista] has style to spare. It stars an ideally cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a weak-willed 1930s rich Italian who embraces taking a path […]

Dec, 23

The Great Dictator ***** (1940, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 1044

Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]

Apr, 03

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