Derek Winnert

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Man Friday ** (1975, Peter O’Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier) – Classic Movie Review 10,954

‘Master’s law was one of order. Friday’s law was one of life. Each tried to overcome the other!’ Director Jack Gold’s 1975 British adventure drama film Man Friday is a revisionist version of Daniel Defoe’s […]

Feb, 22

A Very Brady Sequel ** (1996, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson) – Classic Movie Review 10,339

Director Arlene Sandford’s harmless 1996 culture clash comedy sequel A Very Brady Sequel finds a hunky stranger (Tim Matheson) arriving on the scene at the suburban Brady residence, alleging that he is Carol Brady (Shelley […]

Sep, 22

Ruggles of Red Gap **** (1935, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young) – Classic Movie Review 8243

Director Leo McCarey’s 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap is a bona fide classic Thirties comedy showcasing Charles Laughton’s definitive comic turn as the quintessential English butler/ valet Marmarduke Ruggles, lost in a poker game by […]

Mar, 14

Custer of the West *** (1967, Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin, Lawrence Tierney, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7520

Spectacular, brilliantly shot (in Technicolor by cinematographer Cecilio Paniagua) battle scenes highlight director Robert Siodmak’s adventurous 1967 international co-production Custer of the West, a thoughtful and intelligent biopic of George Armstrong Custer, the controversial US general, who […]

Aug, 31

I Take This Woman ** (1931, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware) – Classic Movie Review 7378

Director Marion Gering’s 1931 I Take This Woman stars the alluring team of Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in this shaky romantic drama, based on Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novel Lost Ecstasy. Cooper stars as a cowboy […]

Jul, 31

Fear Eats the Soul [Angst Essen Seele Auf] ***** (1973, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin) – Classic Movie Review 6198

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]

Nov, 06

Little Lord Fauntleroy **** (1921, Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J Dowling) – Classic Movie Review 5227

Directors Alfred E Green and Jack Pickford’s 1921 children’s film Little Lord Fauntleroy finds Mary Pickford starring in a double role and the silent film superstar was a big hit playing both little 12-year-old Cedric Errol […]

Apr, 01

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