Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "inheritance"

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Oscar and Lucinda ** (1997, Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,629

Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]

Dec, 05

Fletch Lives * (1989, Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 10,088

Fletch Lives… but the movie dies. Director Michael Ritchie’s 1989 comedy-thriller Fletch Lives is an irritating, abravive sequel to the very popular 1985 comedy-thriller Fletch, with Chevy Chase back as Irwin ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, the fast-talking […]

Jul, 26

The Hearse * (1980, Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux) – Classic Movie Review 9952

Director George Bowers’s 1980 film The Hearse stars Trish Van Devere as San Francisco schoolteacher Jane Hardy, who for the summer moves into an old house inherited from her deceased devil worshipper aunt in the […]

Jun, 23

The Cisco Kid Returns *** (1945, Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Roger Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 8287

Director John P McCarthy’s 1944 Western The Cisco Kid Returns stars Duncan Renaldo as ‘O Henry’s famous Robin Hood of the Old West’ in the first of his series of Cisco Kid films with Martin […]

Mar, 23

Major Barbara **** (1941, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Marie Lohr, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 7428

Major Barbara is the pick of producer-director Gabriel Pascal’s attempts to bring George Bernard Shaw to the movies, with Wendy Hiller starring nobly as the Salvation Army girl Major Barbara Undershaft, who quits when they […]

Aug, 11

It’s a Gift ***** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol) – Classic Movie Review 7396

In perhaps his finest comedy, a deliciously on-form W C Fields plays a henpecked New Jersey general store owner called Harold Bissonette, who is having a hard time, what with Baby Dunk (Baby LeRoy), the annoying […]

Aug, 04

Dark River ** (2017, Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean) – Movie Review

Writer-director Clio Barnard’s dark and gloomy 2017 drama Dark River is a harrowing, depressing experience and a none too successful movie, afflicted by some of the inevitable clichés of the family abuse genre. However, the two […]

Feb, 25

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