Derek Winnert

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Interlude *** (1968, Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Nora Swinburne, Alan Webb, Bernard Kay) – Classic Movie Review 6672

In the original 1939 screenplay for When Tomorrow Comes, Irene Dunne fell for married Charles Boyer, and in its remake, the 1957 film of Interlude, June Allyson fell for continental charmer Rossano Brazzi. And now in […]

Feb, 10

Tank Malling ** (1989, Ray Winstone, Jason Connery, Amanda Donohoe, Glen Murphy, Marsha A Hunt, Peter Wyngarde) – Classic Movie Review 6589

Ray Winstone stars in Tank Malling as investigative reporter John ‘Tank’ Malling, who is approached by a classy hooker called Helen (Amanda Donohoe) with the low-down on a politician, Sir Robert Knight (Peter Wyngarde), and […]

Jan, 21

Eyewitness [The Janitor] **** (1981, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 6500

Producer-director Peter Yates’s first-class 1981 thriller is extremely moody, atmospheric, neat and tense throughout. The screenplay is convincingly written by Steve Tesich. The young William Hurt is at his best as the Vietnam War vet and Manhattan […]

Dec, 31

Continental Divide *** (1981, John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn) – Classic Movie Review 6476

Director Michael Apted’s 1981 self-consciously old-style romantic comedy stars John Belushi and Blair Brown as the city newsman Ernie Souchak and the eagle-spotter Nell Porter, who are stuck together in the Rockies. Rather unexpectedly, the […]

Dec, 27

The Last Time I Saw Paris **½ (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Roger Moore, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor) – Classic Movie Review 6412

F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 semi-autobiographical short story of Americans in Paris, Babylon Revisited, makes a loose starting point basis for an interesting though shaky 1954 movie under Richard Brooks’s direction. Its setting is shifted from […]

Dec, 15

Straight Talk ** (1992, Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 6380

Director Barnet Kellman’s 1992 film is a good-natured comedy with a typically spunky performance by Dolly Parton as Shirlee, a small town spouter of home truths, who gets a job as a hit Chicago radio talk […]

Dec, 09

Big Town After Dark *** (1947, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6343

‘POLICE SLAY GAMBLING CZAR…AS EDITOR ESCAPES DEATH! ‘ Director William C Thomas’s sharp and intriguing 1947 film noir is written by Whitman Chambers and stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis and Ann Gillis. There are plenty of thrills […]

Dec, 02

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