Derek Winnert

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Never Let Me Go ** (1953, Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Richard Haydn, Belita, Bernard Miles, Kenneth More, Karel Stepanek, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 7789

Director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Never Let Me Go is a humdrum romantic adventure from Clark Gable, the erstwhile king of Hollywood, playing Philip Sutherland, a US newsman stationed in Moscow who falls for and marries Russian […]

Nov, 15

Yellow Submarine ***** (1968, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) – Classic Movie Review 6153

Director George Dunning’s stupendous 1968 animated feature Yellow Submarine is a hugely enjoyable psychedelic cartoon film of The Beatles’ surreal journey with Captain Fred and his Yellow Submarine to save Pepperland from the music-hating Blue […]

Oct, 29

Lean on Pete **** (2017, Charlie Plummer, Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Thomas Mann) – Movie Review 

OK give Charlie Plummer the whatever award for Most Promising Newcomer as 15-year-old Charley Thompson who takes a summer job with washed-up horse trainer Del (Steve Buscemi) and befriends his struggling racehorse named Lean on Pete. Well, actually, Charlie […]

Sep, 29

The Overlanders **** (1946, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 4671

Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]

Nov, 20

Lassie Come Home **** (1943, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Elsa Lanchester, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4646

Director Fred M Wilcox’s adorable 1943 MGM children’s movie is the original and the sweetest of the film shaggy-dog stories featuring the lovable collie Lassie (played by male dog Pal). In Hugo Butler’s screenplay, based on Eric […]

Nov, 13

Dare to Be Wild **½ (2015, Emma Greenwell, Tom Hughes, Alex Macqueen) – Movie Review

Emma Greenwell stars as real-life young Irishwoman Mary Reynolds, who will stop at nothing to become gold medal winner at the Chelsea Flower Show, in writer-director Vivienne De Courcy’s old-fashioned heart-warmer. You’d have to be […]

Sep, 14

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey *** (1993, Robert Hayes, Kim Griest, Jean Smart, voices Michael J Fox, Sally Field, Don Ameche) – Classic Movie Review 4351

Walt Disney Pictures’s sweet, amusing and engrossing 1993 family movie remake of its 1963 wildlife hit The Incredible Journey re-tells the tale of a trio of pets, two dogs and a cat, trekking across mountains, […]

Sep, 12

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