Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "based on novel"

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The Gypsy Moths ** (1969, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, William Windom, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9713

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1969 drama The Gypsy Moths is a dull and dour action adventure-cum-soap opera about three skydivers, Mike Rettig, Joe Browdy and Malcolm Webson (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson), who arrive in […]

May, 04

The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] ** (1956, Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 9701

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] stars Van Johnson as a drunken escaped convict Donald Martin, convicted five years before for killing a man in self-defence in a barroom […]

May, 02

Smiley *** (1956, Colin Petersen, Ralph Richardson, John McCallum, Chips Rafferty) – Classic Movie Review 9,659

Colin Petersen, aged nine, stars as cheeky Smiley Greevins in the entertaining 1956 comedy drama film Smiley. He later became a drummer and an equal partner in the Bee Gees. Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1956 comedy […]

Apr, 21

Mix Me a Person ** (1962, Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 9613

Young Adam Faith (aged 22) stars as Harry Jukes, who is unjustly convicted of a cop killing, but finds a champion in his lawyer Philip Bellamy QC (Donald Sinden)’s wife, psychiatrist Dr Anne Dyson (Anne […]

Apr, 07

King Richard and the Crusaders * (1954, Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 9572

Director David Butler’s 1954 historical romantic adventure King Richard and the Crusaders is based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Talisman and stars Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders and Laurence Harvey. The film’s Crusaders […]

Mar, 28

Just My Luck ** (1957, Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9560

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1957 British comedy Just My Luck finds Norman Wisdom re-united with Margaret Rutherford, the co-star of his 1953 debut film Trouble in Store. Just our luck to have Wisdom as Norman […]

Mar, 25

The Magus * (1968, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina) – Classic Movie Review 9546

Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina are in trouble in director Guy Green’s murky, muddled and meandering 1968 film of the then in-vogue John Fowles novel The Magus. As screenwriter, Fowles just […]

Mar, 22

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