Derek Winnert

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Long Shot ** (2019, Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, Alexander Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are pleasant company and well cast in the hit-and-miss 2019 romantic comedy Long Shot, in which Charlize plays Charlotte Field, who is standing as US President, and Seth plays out-of-work […]

May, 05

The Adventurers * (1970, Bekim Fehmiu, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Aznavour) – Classic Movie Review 6751

‘The Adventurers was a disaster and I should never have made it.’ In 1967, Lewis Gilbert was chosen to direct Lionel Bart’s musical of Oliver!, but he was contracted to another project had to pull out. ‘I had to […]

Feb, 28

Madame de… [The Earrings of Madame de…] ***** (1953, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6035

Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls brings all his sharp wit and visual elegance to bear on this enchanting 1953 French romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Louise de Vilmorin, which revolves around various adulterous love affairs […]

Sep, 19

Top Secret [Mr Potts Goes to Moscow] *** (1952, George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk, Wilfrid Hyde White, Ronald Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6004

Producer-director Mario Zampi ensures that madcap satirical comedy ensues when double-dealing Russian Communists seize English government research plant plumber/ sanitary engineer Mr Potts (George Cole) who has gone on holiday to Moscow with vital secret plans […]

Aug, 30

Our Modern Maidens *** (1929, Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Anita Page, Josephine Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 5964

Director Jack Conway’s silent romantic entanglement drama stars Joan Crawford in her last non-talkie, along with Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page. A silent film it may be, but it features a synchronized soundtrack and sound effects. […]

Aug, 24

The Quiet American ** (1958, Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Giorgia Moll, Claude Dauphin) – Classic Movie Review 5337

Writer-producer-director Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1958 movie uses half of Graham Greene’s distinguished bestselling novel, and then turns it into a love triangle story and murder-thriller, with lots of dialogue, pro-American stance and a Communist-bashing ending tailored […]

Apr, 23

The Notorious Landlady ***½ (1962, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 5,112

Loveable Jack Lemmon squeezes in a juicy comedy performance in Richard Quine’s amusing and stylish 1962 screwball comedy-cum-mystery The Notorious Landlady. Lemmon partners with Kim Novak, who designed her own gowns. Bill Gridley (Jack Lemmon) […]

Mar, 06

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