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Posts Tagged "Michael Winner"

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The Cool Mikado * (1963, Kevin Scott, Jill Mai Meredith, Stubby Kaye, Frankie Howerd, Dennis Price, Tommy Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7768

The 1963 British musical The Cool Mikado is Gilbert and Sullivan according to Michael Winner, which includes space for comedy gods Frankie Howerd and Tommy Cooper. Kevin Scott plays Hank Mikado. His father, American judge […]

Nov, 10

The System [The Girl-Getters] **** (1964, Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris) – Classic Movie Review 7767

Oliver Reed was already enjoying a good little career in Hammer horrors when young director Michael Winner picked him as the star of this 1964 black and white youth sex drama The System [The Girl-Getters] […]

Nov, 09

West 11 *** (1963, Alfred Lynch, Eric Portman, Kathleen Harrison, Diana Dors, Kathleen Breck, Freda Jackson, Finlay Currie, Harold Lang) – Classic Movie Review 7766

Director Michael Winner orchestrates the atmospheric, downbeat 1963 British action crime thriller West 11 with some degree of style, helped by Otto Heller’s gritty, noir-style London location black and white photography and Keith Waterhouse and […]

Nov, 09

The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742

Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]

Jan, 24

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