Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "parents"

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Daniel *** (1983, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Asner, Ellen Barkin) – Classic Movie Review 11,593

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1983 drama Daniel is written by E L Doctorow (Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, adapted from his own 1971 novel The Book of Daniel, and stars Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward […]

Sep, 22

The Jolson Story **** (1946, Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Tamara Shayne, Scotty Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 11,544

Larry Parks shot to stardom with his highly successful impersonation of the cantor’s son entertainer in the 1946 musical biopic The Jolson Story. Director Alfred E Green’s 1946 American musical biography film The Jolson Story […]

Sep, 02

Thursday’s Child **½ (1943, Sally Ann Howes, Wilfrid Lawson, Kathleen O’Regan, Stewart Granger) – Classic Movie Review 10,903

Director Rodney Ackland’s 1943 Thursday’s Child is a pleasant, well-made if slight little suburban family drama that has plenty of charm and appeal, though British distributors of the day neglected it. Sally Ann Howes stars […]

Feb, 11

A Little Bit of Heaven *** (1940, Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, , C Aubrey Smith, Stuart Erwin, Nan Grey, Eugene Palette, Sig Arno) – Classic Movie Review 7398

Director Andrew Marton’s 1940 A Little Bit of Heaven is one of those Deanna Durbin-type musical prodigy pictures popular at the time, only this time it is the 14-year-old Gloria Jean who is airing the […]

Aug, 04

Les Parents Terribles [The Storm Within] ***** (1948, Jean Marais Josette Day Yvonne de Bray) – Classic Movie Review 5831

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s spirited, theatrical, steamy 1948 French film of his own 1938 stage play about a Paris family driven crazy by the overpowering love of the mother Yvonne aka ‘Sophie’ (Yvonne de Bray) for […]

Jul, 30

Melody [S.W.A.L.K.] ** (1971, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Roy Kinnear, Sheila Steafel, Hilda Barry, Kate Williams) – Classic Movie Review 5038

Jack Wild and Mark Lester, the two young stars of Oliver!, reunite to much less effect for director Waris Hussein’s now very dated 1971 anti-establishment comedy romantic drama, with an original story and screenplay written […]

Feb, 21

Something To Talk About *** (1995, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 4986

Director Lasse Hallstrom’s exceptional, appealing 1995 domestic comedy drama about the affairs of a rich family in the American South really is something to talk about tomorrow with your friends or in the workplace. Robert Duvall […]

Feb, 03

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