Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "19th century"

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Storm Over the Nile * (1955, Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Ronald Lewis, Ian Carmichael, Mary Ure) – Classic Movie Review 6265

Directors Zoltan Korda and Terence Young’s completely unwanted CinemaScope remake of the great 1939 Zoltan Korda adventure classic The Four Feathers, based on the novel by A E W Mason, does not even have the […]

Nov, 17

Pelle the Conqueror [Pelle Erobreren] ***** (1987, Max von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath) – Classic Movie Review 6160

The exceptional, outstanding performances from Max von Sydow and little Pelle Hvenegaard light up this 1988 Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning Best Foreign Language Film from Danish writer-director Bille August about the humble old widowed farmer […]

Oct, 30

Loving Vincent **** (2017, voice of Douglas Booth, Chris O’Dowd, Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, John Sessions) – Movie Review

‘I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.’ – Vincent van Gogh. Writer-director Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s superlative Oscar nominated animated feature film about […]

Oct, 02

Old Yeller **** (1957, Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Jeff York, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 5962

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1957 children’s adventure film Old Yeller is an appealing, good-hearted, robust Walt Disney drama about a boy, Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk), his dog and his folks Katie and Jim Coates (Dorothy McGuire and […]

Aug, 24

The Missing **** (2003, Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, Eric Schweig) Classic Movie Review 5890

Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) and her estranged father Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones), raised by the Apache people, are reunited by a crisis when her teenage daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) is abducted by Pesh-Chidin […]

Aug, 10

Beau Brummell *** (1954, Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 5415

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1954 MGM movie Beau Brummell is a visually captivating and engaging enough remake of the 1924 silent in which John Barrymore cemented his silent superstar status as Beau Brummell. Stewart Granger and […]

May, 07

Love and Death **** (1975, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Jessica Harper, James Tolkan) – Classic Movie Review 4961

There is a lot of fun to be had from writer-director Woody Allen’s polished, handsome-looking and fast-moving 1975 satirical comedy from the far-off happy days when he was spoofing art rather than trying to make […]

Jan, 29

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