Derek Winnert

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Gidget Goes to Rome ** (1963, James Darren, Cindy Carol, Jessie Royce Landis, Cesare Danova) – Classic Movie Review 3386

A disappointing Cindy Carol takes over as the 17-year-old Gidget in returning director Paul Wendkos’s modest but nice-looking 1963 second sequel to Gidget (1959). And, guess what?, the  ‘girl midget’ is off to Rome. Happily, James […]

Feb, 19

The Last Days of Pompeii *** (1935, Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 2620

Directors Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack’s 1935 movie turns out not to be a version of the credited Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel but rather a tale of a gentle, peace-loving Pompeii blacksmith Marcus […]

Jun, 20

Gladiator ***** (2000, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Connie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 166

Best-actor Academy Award winner Russell Crowe powers this brilliant five-Oscar-winning Roman epic, a real man’s man movie. Ridley Scott’s astounding gladiator movie won the 2001 Best Picture award at the Oscars. A glorious throwback to […]

Aug, 16

Spartacus ***** (1960, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, John Gavin) – Classic Movie Review 122

‘I am Spartacus.’ Kirk Douglas is on his finest heroic form in the role he’ll always be remembered for as the fighter Spartacus who leads the slaves in a foolhardy attempt at revolt against the […]

Aug, 03

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