Derek Winnert

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Finders Keepers *** (1984, Michael O’Keefe, Beverly D’Angelo, Louis Gossett Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,433

Director Richard Lester’s elaborate and boisterous 1984 screwball farce Finders Keepers is set on a trans-American train, aboard which a couple, Georgiana (Pamela Stephenson) and her lover Josef Sirola (Ed Lauter), have hidden their stolen […]

Oct, 18

Take Me High * (1973, Cliff Richard, Deborah Watling, George Cole, Hugh Griffith, Richard Wattis, Anthony Andrews, Madeline Smith, Moyra Fraser, Ronald Hines) – Classic Movie Review 10,430

Director David Askey’s 1973 British feature film Take Me High stars Cliff Richard, who takes us low in this rare item, a British musical about Birmingham, banks and beefburgers (the dreaded Brumburger!) – brought to us […]

Oct, 17

Wonderful Life ** (1964, Cliff Richard, Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O’Sullivan, Una Stubbs, Derek Bond, Gerald Harper) – Classic Movie Review 10,427

The cast and crew return from the 1961 hit The Young Ones for director Sidney J Furie’s 1964 follow-up musical Wonderful Life [Swingers’ Paradise]. Cliff Richard and The Shadows are stranded on the Canary Islands, […]

Oct, 17

The Mystery of Edwin Drood * (1993, Robert Powell, Nanette Newman, Gemma Craven, Jonathan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,408

Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]

Oct, 13

Bartleby *** (1970, Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 10,391

Co-writer/ director Anthony Friedman’s 1970 British drama Bartleby offers a rare opportunity to see Paul Scofield on film as The Accountant, the sympathetic boss of a young accounting clerk called Bartleby (John McEnery) who rebels against […]

Oct, 08

Water ** (1985, Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Maureen Lipman) – Classic Movie Review 10,368

Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s 1985 British film Water is a feeble Ealing Studios-style comedy, with good players, perhaps encouraged by the thinness of the script, to be too generous with the scale of their performances. […]

Sep, 30

Impasse * (1969, Burt Reynolds, Anne Francis, Vic Diaz, Jeff Corey, Lyle Bettger, Rodolfo Acosta) – Classic Movie Review 10,352

‘There are two ways to claim a fortune – KILL FOR IT! DIE WITH IT!’ Director Richard Benedict’s thin and muddled 1969 film Impasse stars Burt Reynolds as Pat Morrison, who seeks out the $3 […]

Sep, 26

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