Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Swann in Love [Un Amour de Swann] **** (1984, Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Anne Bennent, Nathalie Juvet) – Classic Movie Review 13,071

Jeremy Irons is elegantly chilly as the Jewish French aristocrat Charles Swann caught in a passion for young courtesan Odette de Crécy (Ornella Muti) in 1880s Paris. Alain Delon impresses in an untypical part as […]

Aug, 22 · in Reviews

Lights of New York ** (1928, Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,070

Warner Bros’ 1928 crime drama film Lights of New York is the first ever full-length all-talking picture, and stars Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman and Eugene Pallette. But, if pictures could talk, should they […]

Aug, 22 · in Reviews

The Terror *** (1938, Wilfrid Lawson, Arthur Wontner, Bernard Lee, Linden Travers, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 13,069

  The 1938 British crime mystery thriller film The Terror – based on Edgar Wallace’s play about an unknown mad murderer dubbed The Terror hiding in the basement of a country mansion – stars Wilfrid […]

Aug, 22

Death of an Angel ** (1952, Patrick Barr, Jane Baxter, Jean Lodge, Raymond Young, Russell Napier, Russell Waters, Katie Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 13,068

Hammer Films’ modestly diverting 1952 British murder mystery B film Death of an Angel features Patrick Barr, Jane Baxter, Jean Lodge, Raymond Young. Director Charles Saunders’s modestly diverting 1952 British black and white Hammer Film […]

Aug, 21

Death of an Angel ** (1985, Bonnie Bedelia, Nick Mancuso, Pamela Ludwig, Alex Colon, Irma Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 13,067

Petru Popescu’s Sundance Institute-produced 1985 religious drama film Death of an Angel was shot in El Paso, Texas, and stars Bonnie Bedelia, Nick Mancuso and Pamela Ludwig. Romanian-American writer/ director Petru Popescu’s 1985 religious drama […]

Aug, 21

Against a Crooked Sky ** (1975, Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Geoffrey Land, Jewel Blanch, Henry Wilcoxon, Gordon Hanson) – Classic Movie Review 13,066

Earl Bellamy’s 1975 acceptable little American Western film Against a Crooked Sky stars Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen and Henry Wilcoxon. Director Earl Bellamy’s 1975 American colour Western film Against a Crooked Sky stars Richard Boone, […]

Aug, 20

A Month of Sundays [Age-Old Friends] *** (1989, Hume Cronyn, Vincent Gardenia, Michele Scarabelli, Tandy Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 13,065

Hume Cronyn and Vincent Gardenia come together memorably for the sweet and funny 1989 Home Box Office TV comedy drama film A Month of Sundays about two friends in a retirement nursing home. Two of […]

Aug, 20

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