Derek Winnert

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Silent Tongue ** (1993, River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Sheila Tousey) – Classic Movie Review 4559

Writer-director Sam Shepard’s intelligent, atmospheric, offbeat Western was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico, in spring 1992, but not released until 1994. It stars River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and Sheila Tousey. It is slow moving, but […]

Oct, 29

Three Men in a Boat **½ (1956, Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Robertson Hare, Jill Ireland, Lisa Gastoni, Martita Hunt, Adrienne Corri, A E Matthews, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4310

All should be plain sailing with director Ken Annakin’s 1956 British screen version of Jerome K Jerome’s misadventures of three less than eminent Victorians, Harris, George and Jimmy (Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey and David Tomlinson), […]

Sep, 06

Jacknife **** (1989, Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 3371

Director David Hugh Jones’s emotionally intense 1989 movie version of a modest three-hander play is lifted high by a trio of brilliant first-class performances, showing how the quality of the acting can totally transform and […]

Feb, 17

The Amazing Mr X [The Spiritualist] *** (1948, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 3,316

The 1948 American horror thriller film noir The Amazing Mr X [The Spiritualist] tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket, and is famed for its noir cinematography by John Alton. Director Bernard Vorhaus’s intriguing and effectively handled 1948 B-movie film noir mystery thriller The […]

Feb, 03

Digging to China *** (1997, Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cathy Moriarty) – Classic Movie Review 3240

‘My mother lived in one world. I was always looking for another. Once I tried to squeeze down a rabbit hole. Then I tried digging all the way to China. ‘ The actor Timothy Hutton […]

Jan, 16

A Stolen Life *** (1946, Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan, Charles Ruggles, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 2,703

Two Bette Davises for the price of one is the big magnet in director Curtis Bernhardt’s glossy, preposterous, entertaining 1946 soap opera drama film A Stolen Life. Bette Davis impresses in this tale of an […]

Jul, 26

In this Our Life *** (1942, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Charles Coburn, Frank Craven, Dennis Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 2,742

John Huston’s 1942 drama film In this Our Life stars Bette Davis, who is on the rampage again as an unscrupulous and devilish minx called Stanley Timberlake, who keeps stealing her sister’s men. Director John […]

Jul, 25

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