Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Young Wives’ Tale *** (1951, Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Helen Cherry, Derek Farr, Guy Middleton, Athene Seyler, Audrey Hepburn, Fabia Drake)

Henry Cass’s mildly amusing 1951 British comedy film Young Wives’ Tale is based on the 1949 play by Ronald Jeans, and stars Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Helen Cherry, Derek Farr, and Audrey Hepburn as a […]

Sep, 08 · in Reviews

The Golden Child ** (1986, Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 13,105

Michael Ritchie’s slack 1986 American fantasy action comedy film The Golden Child stars Eddie Murphy, who said: ‘The movie made more than $100 million, so who am I to say it sucks?’ Director Michael Ritchie’s […]

Sep, 08 · in Reviews

Radio Cab Murder ** (1954, Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris, Sonia Holm, Jack Allen, Sam Kydd) – Classic Movie Review 13,104

The 1954 British black and white crime drama film Radio Cab Murder stars Jimmy Hanley as an ex-con taxi driver who poses as a crook to catch bank robbers. Co-writer/ director Vernon Sewell’s 1954 British […]

Sep, 08

The Rough and the Smooth [Portrait of a Sinner] * (1959, Tony Britton, Nadja Tiller, William Bendix, Natasha Parry) – Classic Movie Review 13,103

The 1959 British film The Rough and the Smooth is a trashy melodrama about an exotic blonde German woman (Nadja Tiller) leading an English archaeologist Mike Thompson (Tony Britton) astray. Director Robert Siodmak’s 1959 British […]

Sep, 07

Shipwreck! [The Sea Gypsies] *** (1978, Robert F Logan, Heather Rattray, Mikki Jamison-Olsen, Cjon Damitri Patterson, Shannon Saylor)– Classic Movie Review 13,102

The exciting 1978 family adventure film Shipwreck! [The Sea Gypsies] stars Robert Logan as the head of a group of five shipwrecked on an uninhabited island off Alaska during a round-the-world sailboat trip. ‘It began […]

Sep, 07

Shipwrecked [Haakon Haakonsen] *** (1990, Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Haigh, Trond Munch) – Classic Movie Review 13,101

Nils Gaup’s lusty 1990 Norwegian children’s action-adventure film Shipwrecked [Hakon Hakonsen] stars Stian Smestad as a cabin boy who battles a pirate captain (Gabriel Byrne), is hit by a hurricane, and is stranded alone on […]

Sep, 07

Run Wild, Run Free *** (1969, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Mark Lester, Bernard Miles, Gordon Jackson, Fiona Fullerton) – Classic Movie Review 13,100

Mark Lester stars as a mute child living on Dartmoor with his best friend a wild pony, in the prettily photographed 1969 British family film Run Wild, Run Free. Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1969 British […]

Sep, 06

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