Derek Winnert

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The Window **** (1949, Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 3714

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s engrossing and impeccably handled 1949 film noir thriller The Window stars Bobby Driscoll, as a mischievous lad called Tommy who is prone to crying wolf. One hot summer night, he tells his […]

May, 16

Pete’s Dragon *** (1977, Sean Marshall, Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Jim Backus, Jeff Conaway) – Classic Movie Review 3712

Don Chaffey directs Walt Disney’s modest 1977 musical mix of animation and live action, in which big green-and-purple, dopey magical cartoon dragon Elliott (created by animator Don Bluth, voiced by Charlie Callas) saves the nine-year-old sweet orphan […]

May, 16

Jeremy **** (1973, Robby Benson, Glynnis O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 3705

Writer-director Arthur Barron’s 1973 romance teams Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor in this tender, bitter-sweet tale of first-time love. Benson stars as a shy young New York cellist student called Jeremy, who meets and romances upper-class aspiring teenage […]

May, 14

Song of the South **** (1946, Bobby Driscoll, Ruth Warrick, Lucile Watson, James Basket) – Classic Movie Review 3692

Walt Disney’s 1946 tale of a boy called Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) coming to live on a plantation with his Mother (Ruth Warrick) and Grandmother (Lucile Watson) makes for a lovely children’s movie, though perhaps it just […]

May, 10

Hunted [The Stranger in Between] **** (1952, Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3675

Director Charles Crichton’s 1952 British noir thriller stars Dirk Bogarde as Chris, a murderer on the run who is joined by a small boy, the six-year-old Robbie (Jon Whiteley), running away from the home he […]

May, 08

Lord of the Flies **** (1963, James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman) – Classic Movie Review 3596

Director Peter Brook’s imaginative, distinguished and original 1963 black and white film version of the William Golding classic novel Lord of the Flies is a chilling essential art house movie. The famous story is about […]

Apr, 21

The Prince and the Pauper [Crossed Swords] *** (1977, Mark Lester, Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 3590

In his last major film to date before he gave up acting, a grown-up Mark Lester (from Oliver!) plays both title roles, Henry VIII’s son Prince Edward and the lookalike urchin, Tom Canty, with whom […]

Apr, 18

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