Derek Winnert

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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round *** (1966, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber, Rose Marie) – Classic Movie Review 9032

Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]

Oct, 30

Hot Millions *** (1968, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 8861

Director Eric Till’s 1968 Hot Millions is a cute, likeable and appealing comedy with a double score for Peter Ustinov – a delightful performance as a confidence trickster, paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton, and an […]

Aug, 24

Back from Eternity *** (1956, Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 7846

The 1956 black and white adventure thriller Back from Eternity tells a familiar tale but is actually a bigger budget remake by producer-director John Farrow of his admired 1939 hit Five Came Back, which starred […]

Nov, 27

Into the Night **** (1985, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, David Bowie, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Vera Miles, Dan Aykroyd, Clu Gulager, Kathryn Harrold) – Classic Movie Review 7621

Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]

Sep, 27

The Business of Strangers *** (2001, Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller) – Classic Movie Review 6287

‘Everyone eats shit. It’s just a question of degrees.’ – Julie. Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles play Julie and Paula, business women of very different ages and backgrounds who meet up at an airport motel, bond over […]

Nov, 22

Night Flight *** (1933, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy) – Classic Movie Review 6043

When there is an outbreak of polio in Rio de Janeiro, pilots offer to risk their lives in bad weather to fly the medicine over the dangerous Andes mountains. John Barrymore stars as Riviere, who […]

Sep, 24

Love Field *** (1992, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin) – Classic Movie Review 5829

Director Jonathan Kaplan and writer Don Roos’s 1992 drama stars Michelle Pfeiffer, who was Oscar and Golden Globe nominated for her very considerable performance as ‘Lurene’ Hallett, a married Dallas beautician in a tizzy over […]

Jul, 30

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