Derek Winnert

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The Oscar ** (1966, Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St John, Edie Adams, Ed Begley, Walter Brennan, Broderick Crawford, James Dunn, Peter Lawford) – Classic Movie Review 7234

‘This is the story of…The Dreamers and The Schemers…The Hustlers and The Hopefuls…The Free-loaders and The Phonies…The Fakers and The Famous…All Fighting for the Highest Possible Award!!’ Director Russell Rouse’s 1966 backstage story movie The […]

Jun, 30

The Disaster Artist ***½ (2017, Dave Franco, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor, Paul Scheer, Alison Brie) – Movie Review

What are people saying about The Disaster Artist? I will tell you. They are saying it is funny, not hysterical, except occasionally, but definitely funny. The casting is canny – real-life famous actor brothers playing a […]

Dec, 02

The Carpetbaggers *** (1964, George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd, Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 6285

Director Edward Dmytryk skillfully turns Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel into its exact movie equivalent – a compulsively trashy epic film with an escapist Hollywood story and glossy cardboard characters. The 1964 tells a romantic drama […]

Nov, 22

Pepe * (1960, Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5690

Cantinflas from Around the World in 80 Days (1956) stars as the young Mexican Pepe, who follows his magnificent white stud stallion pet horse Don Juan to Hollywood when it is bought by a film director called […]

Jul, 01

Inside Daisy Clover ***½ (1965, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 5,308

The polished 1965 Hollywood satire drama film Inside Daisy Clover stars a fine team in Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, and Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon, who won Golden Globes. Reputedly Robert Redford did not want […]

Apr, 17

The Sinister Urge [The Young and the Immoral] * (1960, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Jean Fontaine) – Classic Movie Review 5291

Kenne Duncan and Duke Moore play cops Lieutenant Matt Carson and Sergeant Randy Stone, who tackle a porn-flick scam, in another deliriously rotten exploitation picture from the world’s worst film-maker, writer-director, Edward Wood Jr. In […]

Apr, 15

The Front **** (1976, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Lloyd Gough, Remak Ramsay) – Classic Movie Review 4905

Co-producer/ director Martin Ritt’s engrossing serious-minded 1976 comedy drama about Hollywood’s Fifties anti-leftist witch-hunts stars Woody Allen in one of his few films as actor only. Ritt called it ‘a film filled with bitterness and irony […]

Jan, 18

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