Derek Winnert

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Ash Wednesday * (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 7,012

The 1973 mystery drama film Ash Wednesday is a hysterical farrago, with Elizabeth Taylor as a married woman in her 50s trying to make herself look young via gross plastic surgery in Italy, where she […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Les Félins [The Love Cage] [Joy House] *** (1964, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 7,011

The fabulous Fonda gets involved with the delicious Delon in the 1964 French black-and-white mystery thriller The Love Cage [Joy House]. ‘The Women of the “Joy House” Allowed Him Every Freedom… Except the Freedom to […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Love on the Dole **** (1941, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Geoffrey Hibbert, Frank Pettingell, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 7010

Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]

May, 06

The Love Specialist [La ragazza del palio] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Valeri, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 7009

Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]

May, 06

As Long as They’re Happy *** (1955, Jack Buchanan, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, Janette Scott, Susan Stephen, Jerry Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 7008

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1955 British comedy stars Jack Buchanan as a stockbroker whose London home is taken over by a Johnnie Ray-style American emotional pop singer, crooner Bobby Denver (Jerry Wayne), hideously mixing tears […]

May, 06

The Trial *** (1993, Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 7007

In a clash of the literary titans, Pinteresque meets Kafkaesque to disappointingly little avail in The Trial (1993). But, nevertheless, this is a respectable Harold Pinter-scripted version of the Franz Kafka novel by director David […]

May, 06

The Long Haul *** (1957, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7006

‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller drama film The Long Haul stars Victor Mature, Diana Dors and Patrick Allen. Hughes’s screenplay is […]

May, 06

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