Derek Winnert

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Lassie Come Home **** (1943, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Elsa Lanchester, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4646

Director Fred M Wilcox’s adorable 1943 MGM children’s movie is the original and the sweetest of the film shaggy-dog stories featuring the lovable collie Lassie (played by male dog Pal). In Hugo Butler’s screenplay, based on Eric […]

Nov, 13

Houdini ***½ (1953, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Sig Ruman, Angela Clarke, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 4545

Paired for the first time in their five films together, Tony Curtis stars with his then wife Janet Leigh in director George Marshall’s largely imaginary 1953 biopic of the great escaper Harry Houdini (aka Erich […]

Oct, 27

Inkheart *** (2008, Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Stephen Graham, Jamie Foreman) – Classic Movie Review 4528

Director Iain Softley’s smooth and colourful 2008 family fantasy adventure takes the idea that ‘every story ever written is just waiting to become real.’ And the cinema just the place for that! Eliza Bennett plays […]

Oct, 24

Inferno **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Ben Foster, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen) – Movie Review

After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]

Oct, 14

Escape to Victory [Victory] *** (1981, Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max von Sydow, Pelé, Bobby Moore) – Classic Movie Review 4115

Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone star in a fairly awesome movie about using a soccer game to cover an escape from a German POW camp in WWII. Director John Huston’s eccentric 1981 prisoner-of-war adventure hokum […]

Aug, 01

The Sunchaser ** (1996, Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 3962

Director Michael Cimino’s interesting, but finally unsatisfying offbeat 1996 crime drama thriller The Sunchaser stars Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda and Anne Bancroft as Dr Renata Baumbauer. It turned out to be the last feature film […]

Jul, 03

Passage to Marseille ***½ (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Michèle Morgan, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 3880

Director Michael Curtiz’s propaganda-driven 1944 wartime thriller provides a slightly bumpy passage despite the first-class passengers, including the welcome reunion of five of the stars of Casablanca (1942) – Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre […]

Jun, 17

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