Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "american football"

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North Dallas Forty **** (1979, Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Swenson, G D Spradlin, Dabney Coleman, Steve Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 12,768

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1979 film North Dallas Forty stars Nick Nolte, who gives a bravura turn as the American football pro caught up in a complicated tangle of rigged games, macho attitudes, drug abuse, crazy […]

Dec, 28

The All American [The Winning Way] ** (1953, Tony Curtis, Lori Nelson, Richard Long, Mamie Van Doren) – Classic Movie Review 10,599

Director Jesse Hibbs’s 1953 Universal International Pictures black and white American football drama The All American [The Winning Way] stars Tony Curtis as the college football player Nick Bonelli who rejects sport for studies after […]

Nov, 28

Easy Living *** (1949, Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball, Sonny Tufts, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,215

Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1949 Easy Living stars Victor Mature as football star Pete Wilson, who matures and realises the game doesn’t make him or his greedy wife Liza (Lizabeth Scott) happy. His retired buddy Tim […]

Aug, 23

Trouble Along the Way *** (1953, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 9222

After four bit parts in films, James Dean has a fifth and final unbilled role as a Football Spectator in Michael Curtiz’s sentimental 1953 tear-jerking family drama film Trouble Along the Way. Director Michael Curtiz’s […]

Jan, 04

Flash Gordon **** (1980, Sam J Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Topol, Ornella Muti) – Classic Movie Review 6,583

Mike Hodges’s 1980 British Sci-Fi action adventure film Flash Gordon is a lovely and lavish movie version of the Thirties Alex Raymond comic strip. Sam J Jones stars as Flash, with Ornella Muti as Princess […]

Jan, 19

The Blind Side *** (2009, Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins, Jae Head) – Classic Movie Review 5056

Sandra Bullock won an unexpected Best Actress Oscar in 2010 for her capable performance in The Blind Side (2009) as caring woman Leigh Anne Tuohy who crucially helps homeless and traumatised teenage African-American boy Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), who […]

Feb, 24

Remember the Titans **** (2000, Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris) – Classic Movie Review 1839

Director Boaz Yakin’s 2000 sports drama is based on the actual events of 1971. It stars Denzel Washington, who gives a titanic turn as Coach Herman Boone, the newly appointed African-American head coach of a football team […]

Nov, 13

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