Derek Winnert

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The Idle Class *** (1921, Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain) – Classic Movie Review 11,756

  Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1921 comedy The Idle Class is a lesser but still entertaining and amusing Chaplin short film, just past his silent short peak, still playing the tramp but indulging in all the […]

Nov, 30

Where the Heart Is ** (1990, Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 9271

Producer-director John Boorman’s 1990 comedy drama Where the Heart Is is a modern comedic New York version of King Lear, with Dabney Coleman as Stewart McBain, an arrogant builder real-estate mogul who kicks out his […]

Jan, 16

The Tramp **** (1915, Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Ernest Van Pelt) – Classic Movie Review 9011

Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1915 silent comedy The Tramp (with English intertitles) stars Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp, who works on a family farm and is hurt rescuing the Farmer (Ernest Van Pelt)’s daughter (Edna Purviance) […]

Oct, 23

L’amore **** (1948, Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo, Amelia Robert) – Classic Movie Review 8798

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 black and white double bill drama L’Amore [Ways of Love] [Woman] finds him leaving his usual area of neo-realism far behind for this heated, actress’s tour-de-force feature with two distinct episodes. […]

Aug, 05

A Man Called Gannon *** (1968, Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West) – Classic Movie Review 7031

Tony Franciosa stars as a cowpoke drifter who takes a tenderfoot kid (Michael Sarrazin) under his wing and helps a widow rancher (Judi West) in a range war, in the 1968 Western A Man Called […]

May, 10

The Legend of the Holy Drinker [La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore] **** (1988, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas) – Classic Movie Review 6159

Rutger Hauer is on excellent acting form as the alcoholic homeless Paris tramp Andreas Kartak, who is offered 200 francs in money by a wealthy stranger as long as he promises to give it back to […]

Oct, 30

Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] **** (1973, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 5943

The splendid 1973 movie Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] is a spectacular, violently tough slap-up Thirties Oregon, Depression-set action thriller from producer-director Robert Aldrich, with a great script by Christopher Knopf, […]

Aug, 20

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