Derek Winnert

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How Awful About Allan **½ (1970, Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4820

Director Curtis Harrington’s intense 1970 psychological thriller stars Anthony Perkins as Allan, a tormented psychosomatic blind man who thinks that his release from an eight-month stay in a mental hospital and his proximity to his […]

Dec, 30

La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony] **** (1946, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Desailly, Line Noro) – Classic Movie Review 4804

Michèle Morgan was the first ever winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for co-writer/ director Jean Delannoy’s moving 1946 French drama film La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony], an adaptation […]

Dec, 22

The Night Walker *** (1964, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Bochner, Rochelle Hudson, Judith Meredith, Hayden Rorke, Marjorie Bennett, Jess Barker) – Classic Movie Review 4698

Barbara Stanwyck stars here in 1964 in her last movie as Irene Trent, a wealthy woman who has recurring nightmares, featuring both her apparently dead jealous, blind husband (Hayden Rorke) and a mysterious stranger (Lloyd Bochner), […]

Nov, 25

The Descent *** (2005 Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid) – Classic Movie Review 3438

When six daredevil women go caving in America’s Appalachian mountains, they are trapped by a rockfall and then attacked by blind Gollum-style cave creatures – ‘crawlers’ – hunting by smell and sound. Working with a […]

Mar, 02

The Four Feathers ***½ (2002, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 2851

Young Aussie star Heath Ledger (aged 23) cuts a convincing and stylish dash as English gentleman Harry Faversham in director Shekhar Kapur’s lusty 2002 epic movie version of The Four Feathers by A E W […]

Aug, 26

At First Sight *** (1998, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) – Classic Movie Review 1619

Producer-director Irwin Winkler’s sweetly sensitive 1998 drama stars Mira Sorvino as city woman Amy Benic, a Manhattan architect who meets and falls for a proud, self-sufficient blind bloke called Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). A massage therapist at a […]

Sep, 01

Wait Until Dark **** (1967, Audrey Hepburn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Alan Arkin, Jack Weston, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 947

Director Terence (Goldfinger) Young’s 1967 movie is an extremely effective, thoroughly enjoyable thriller and provides Audrey Hepburn with an idea role. Involvingly concocted hokum, it’s one of director Young’s best films, smoothly and effectively translating to […]

Mar, 20

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