Derek Winnert

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The Seventh Survivor *** (1941, Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,156

A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another […]

Jun, 02

The Bounty **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6593

The Bounty (1984) was originally a project for David Lean, who started to work again with screen-writer Robert Bolt on an ambitious two-part movie about the mutiny on the Bounty towards the end of the […]

Jan, 23

Lord Jim *** (1965, Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Jack Hawkins, Daliah Lavi, Curt Jurgens, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 6342

Richard Brooks’s 1965 film adaptation the gloomy 1900 Joseph Conrad novel was always going to be difficult to film and hard going. But Peter O’Toole is excellent as Lord Jim and there is good star […]

Dec, 01

The Finest Hours **½ (2016, Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Holliday Grainger, Eric Bana, Ben Foster) – Movie Review

In a lavish, painstaking production, Walt Disney Pictures remember and celebrate the heroic story of a daring, against-all-odds rescue attempt by the US Coast Guard after two oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in February 1952 off the coast of Cape […]

Feb, 05

A Night to Remember **** (1958, Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Honor Blackman, Robert Ayres) – Classic Movie Review 1,833

Kenneth More stars in an ideal, admirable, iconic star turn as the heroic crewman Second Officer Herbert Lightoller in the Golden Globe winning 1958 British historical disaster film A Night to Remember. Director Roy Ward […]

Nov, 12

The Blue Lagoon *** (1980, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 1254

Director Randal Kleiser’s striking-looking but daft 1980 romantic adventure movie of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel remakes the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, but adds a lot of […]

May, 26

Life of Pi ***** (2012, Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 280

‘I had to tame him’, Pi realizes. ‘It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.’ Boasting astounding cinematography, marvellous production […]

Oct, 09

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