Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "doppelganger"

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The Double Life of Véronique [La Double Vie de Véronique] **** (1991, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska) – Classic Movie Review 8718

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life of Véronique [La Double Vie de Véronique] is a beautifully played, compassionately told, intriguingly written tale of two identical women – one French, the other Polish – […]

Jul, 16

The Man Who Haunted Himself *** (1970, Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Olga-Georges Picot, Anton Rodgers, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters, John Carson, John Welsh, Gerald Sim, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 8397

Director Basil Dearden’s 1970 The Man Who Haunted Himself is a slight but effective tale of terror starring Roger Moore as Mr Harold Pelham, the quiet, boring businessman who recovers from a near fatal road […]

Apr, 25

Our Relations **** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Alan Hale Sr, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 7367

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy movie Our Relations is a clever, funny comedy of endless errors from a story by W W Jacobs, The Money Box, with many fine sequences, especially […]

Jul, 29

How to Get Ahead in Advertising ** (1989, Richard E Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6559

Director Bruce Robinson again casts his Withnail & I (1987) star Richard E Grant, this time as Denis Dimbleby Bagley, an advertising executive who finds a stress-related boil on his neck that metamorphoses into his doppelgänger. […]

Jan, 14

Futureworld *** (1976, Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner) – Classic Movie Review 6006

Director Richard T Heffron’s 1976 welcome and successful sequel to Westworld (1973) sees the robots from Westworld replicate famous people to try to achieve control of the planet. Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner star as reporters […]

Aug, 31

In Like Flint ** (1967, James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 5924

‘Derek, darling, your American music is so decadent.’ ‘Well, that’s where it’s at, honey.’ Director Gordon Douglas’s 1967 spoof spy adventure is the mindless, daft but fairly enjoyable 1967 follow-up to the 1966 Swinging Sixties […]

Aug, 16

The Prisoner of Zenda *½ (1979, Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell) – Classic Movie Review 4653

Director Richard Quine mistakenly remakes Anthony Hope’s Ruritanian classic as a zany slapstick comedy with the tamest of results. Peter Sellers, however, puts a lot of energy into his two major roles of lisping rightful […]

Nov, 14

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