Derek Winnert

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A Walk in the Spring Rain * (1970, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 9759

Director Guy Green’s 1970 film A Walk in the Spring Rain is a ghastly romantic drama, based on Rachel Maddox’s novel, wasting the talents of the great Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, both still in […]

May, 13 · in Uncategorized

The Visit *** (1964, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa) – Classic Movie Review 9758

Director Bernhard Wicki’s 1964 The Visit [Der Besuch] stars Ingrid Bergman as rich Carla Zachanassian, who goes back home to bribe the townsfolk and to kill Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn), who seduced and drove her […]

May, 13 · in Reviews

Today We Live ** (1933, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 9,757

Director Howard Hawks and co-director Richard Rosson’s 1933 wartime romantic drama Today We Live is a surprisingly low-powered, and now very much dated, movie from MGM studios, considering the high-voltage talent involved. As Ann Boyce-Smith, […]

May, 12

Roadblock **** (1951, Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 9756

Little-known director Harold Daniels’s 1951 thriller Roadblock is a punchy Fifties B-movie crime drama re-heating the old film noir plot about an essentially good guy (Charles McGraw) tempted into crime by a greedy femme fatale […]

May, 12

The Road to Glory **** (1936, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9755

Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]

May, 12

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer ** (1970, Peter Cook, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Ronnie Corbett, Arthur Lowe, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Vanessa Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9754

Director Kevin Billington’s 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer stars Peter Cook, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Ronnie Corbett, Arthur Lowe, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser and Vanessa Howard. A galaxy of funny British comedians […]

May, 12

The Very Edge ** (1963, Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Jeremy Brett, Nicole Maurey, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 9753

Despite the good cast, a useful premise and a bright screenplay by Elizabeth Jane Howard, director Cyril Frankel’s 1963 psychological thriller The Very Edge ends up as a mere borderline timepasser but still in the interesting […]

May, 12

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