Derek Winnert

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Ice Cold in Alex **** (1958, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5028

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1958 British World War Two wartime-set thriller Ice Cold in Alex stars John Mills as a British military man, Captain Anson, who leads an ambulance and its medical field unit passengers […]

Feb, 16

Class of ’44 *** (1973, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, William Atherton, Sam Bottoms, Deborah Winters) – Classic Movie Review 4253

Gary Grimes stars again in Class of ’44, the welcome 1973 sequel to his breakthrough movie Summer of ’42 (1971), which follows his character Hermie’s progress to college. Director Paul Bogart’s 1973 youth drama Class of […]

Aug, 28

San Demetrio London **** (1943, Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Charles Victor, Frederick Piper, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 2827

Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]

Aug, 18

Kelly’s Heroes **** (1970, Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Carroll O’Connor, Richard Davalos, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 2401

Director Brian G Hutton’s 1970 World War Two wartime action adventure romp is exuberantly handled and engagingly played by an iconic cast of Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland and Carroll O’Connor. Preposterously […]

Apr, 17

Suite Française *** (2014, Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts) – Movie Review

Montana-born Michelle Williams stars as Lucille Angellier, a young, attractive French villager who is living trapped in a stifled existence with her unpleasant and controlling mother-in-law Madame Angellier (Kristin Scott Thomas) while they await news […]

Mar, 11

The Great Escape ***** (1963, Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, Nigel Stock, James Donald, John Leyton) – Classic Movie Review 201

One of everybody’s favourite war films, director John Sturges’s 1963 classic The Great Escape is one of the most famous and popular prison escape films of all time. The bold plan here is that several hundred […]

Aug, 28

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