Derek Winnert

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True as a Turtle *** (1957, John Gregson, June Thorburn, Cecil Parker, Avice Landone, Keith Michell, Elvi Hale, Betty Stockfeld) – Classic Movie Review 13,762

John Gregson and June Thorburn star as honeymooning newly-weds who join a party in the English Channel on rich Cecil Parker’s yacht Turtle and get mixed up with crooks, in the 1957 British comedy film True […]

Oct, 15

The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] ** (1956, Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O’Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel) – Classic Movie Review 11,158

The 1956 Italian comedy-drama film The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] is the German-born Marlene Dietrich’s sole Italian movie. Writer-director Samuel A Taylor’s resolute 1956 bid to revive the style of Thirties sophisticated comedy stars Marlene Dietrich, […]

May, 02

The Dark ** (1979, William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 11,063

A hairy homicidal alien zombie stalks Los Angeles ripping off people’s heads and searing them to a crisp with his laser-ray eyes in John ‘Bud’ Cardos’s gory 1979 sci-fi-horror shocker The Dark [The Mutilator] blessed […]

Mar, 31

Nothing But the Truth *** (1941, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 10,697

The 1941 comedy film Nothing But the Truth starts with a good premise about a man who bets $10,000 he will tell nothing but the truth for a whole day. The ideally paired Bob Hope […]

Dec, 22

The Day of the Dolphin *** (1973, George C Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 8310

Director Mike Nichols’s 1973 adventure film The Day of the Dolphin stars George C Scott as oceanologist Dr Jake Terrell, who finds how to communicate in dolphin-speak with the attractive title mammals that wicked villain […]

Mar, 29

The Last of Sheila **** (1973, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, James Mason) – Classic Movie Review 8099

A fine near all-star cast enlivens producer-director Herbert Ross’s elegant 1973 satirical murder mystery The Last of Sheila, ingeniously written, unexpectedly, by mystery buffs Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, who set loose a barrage of […]

Feb, 06

Madame X ** (1937, Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 6816

Director Sam Wood’s 1937 MGM drama is the fifth (of seven) cinema film versions of this classic fallen woman, road-to-ruin weepie tale about Jacqueline Fleuriot, a rich woman whose life is wrecked by a brief […]

Mar, 18

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