Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Italy"

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The Assisi Underground ** (1985, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 10,263

Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]

Sep, 04

The Devil’s Brigade ** (1968, William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 10,136

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1968 The Devil’s Brigade is an ordinary and overlong but acceptable World War Two wartime action drama in the wake of The Dirty Dozen, though based on real life as recounted […]

Aug, 05

Conspiracy of Hearts *** (1960, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,118

‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]

Aug, 01

Casanova’s Big Night *** (1954, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe, John Carradine, Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9846

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1954 comedy Casanova’s Big Night stars Bob Hope, who is on tip-top form in his accustomed persona of cowardly braggard, in this case a tailor’s apprentice, Pippo Popolino, pretending to be […]

May, 31

Only You **** (1994, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr, Bonnie Hunt, Billy Zane, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9766

‘The important thing is true love.’ Mmm… quite. Director Norman Jewison’s utterly sweet 1994 old-style romantic comedy Only You sets out to prove its own adage as hopeless romantic Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) sets off […]

May, 14

Good Morning Babylon [Good Morning Babilonia] **** (1987, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 9744

Charles Dance steals the 1987 show Good Morning Babylon as movie pioneer director D W Griffith in a charming homage to silent film-making from Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, the Italian heavyweight directors responsible for […]

May, 10

Everybody’s Fine [Stanno Tutti Bene] **** (1990, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli) – Classic Movie Review 9732

Marcello Mastroianni’s certainly fine as Matteo Scuro, a retired old Sicilian bureaucrat who travels to mainland Italy to check what’s happened to his five kids, and is lied to by them to conceal the trouble […]

May, 08

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