Derek Winnert

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In the Doghouse ** (1961, Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley) – Classic Movie Review 9736

Director Darcy Conyers’s 1961 comedy In the Doghouse has us in mild stitches with James Herriot-type adventures, this time adapted from the novel It’s a Vet’s Life by Alex Duncan, in a screenplay by the […]

May, 09

King of the Wind **** (1990, Navin Chowdhry, Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson, Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 9733

Director Peter Duffell’s 1990 film King of the Wind is a first-class family adventure about a mute orphan boy called Agba (Navin Chowdhry) and his fine Arab steed, rescued in Paris by English gent Edward […]

May, 08

Bottoms Up *** (1960, Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 9700

Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]

May, 02

The River Rat *** (1984, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Martha Plimpton) – Classic Movie Review 9655

Writer-director Thomas [Tom] Rickman’s powerful 1984 Mississippi-set drama The River Rat is all about the growing love between Billy McCain (Tommy Lee Jones) and his plucky 12-year-old daughter Jonsy (Martha Plimpton), who meet for the […]

Apr, 19

Quest for Love *** (1971, Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9648

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1971 Quest for Love tells a fascinating sci-fi yarn based on John (The Midwich Cuckoos) Wyndham’s 1954 short story Random Quest, with a screenplay by Terence Feely. Tom Bell stars as Colin […]

Apr, 18

Mix Me a Person ** (1962, Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 9613

Young Adam Faith (aged 22) stars as Harry Jukes, who is unjustly convicted of a cop killing, but finds a champion in his lawyer Philip Bellamy QC (Donald Sinden)’s wife, psychiatrist Dr Anne Dyson (Anne […]

Apr, 07

The Rachel Papers *** (1989, Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye, Jonathan Pryce, James Spader) – Classic Movie Review 9,513

The 1989 British romantic drama The Rachel Papers with Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye is a reasonably attractive film version of Martin Amis’s funny, bawdy 1973 first novel. Writer-director Damian Harris’s 1989 British romantic drama […]

Mar, 16

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