Derek Winnert

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The Catered Affair [Wedding Breakfast] *** (1956, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 8154

Gifted writer Paddy Chayefsky followed his Marty and The Bachelor Party with another realistic ‘ordinary people’ TV play about Mrs Tom Hurley, a New York Bronx mother insisting on a big wedding with hundreds of […]

Feb, 20

That Kind of Woman *** (1959, Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, George Sanders, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 8132

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1959 drama That Kind of Woman is the soapy melodramatic romantic tale of a society woman, Kay (Sophia Loren), giving up the high life with her wealthy industrialist fancy man A L […]

Feb, 14

The Naked Street ** (1955, Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 7992

Writer-director Maxwell Shane’s 1955 The Naked Street is a rather limp and clichéd crime-romance film noir melodrama starring Farley Granger as Nicky Bradna, a small-time hood involved in ugly crimes and a doomed romance with Rosalie […]

Jan, 08

Rumba ** (1935, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman, Margo, Monroe Owsley, Iris Adrian, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 7976

In a slightly limping follow-up to their previous year’s dance-themed romantic hit Bolero, George Raft and Carole Lombard re-team as a Cuban New York dancer, Joe Martin, and bored society heiress, Diana Harrison, who romance […]

Jan, 04

The Next Time We Love ***(1936, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 7947

Margaret Sullavan stars in director Edward H Griffith’s 1936 romance drama The Next Time We Love [Next Time We Live in GB] as an actress called Cicely Hunt Tyler who has to decide between her […]

Dec, 28

Edge of the City ***** (1957, John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7899

Director Martin Ritt’s 1957 Edge of the City [A Man Is Ten Feet Tall] stars John Cassavetes as an army deserter called Axel Nordmann, who joins up with easy-going New York dockworker Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier) […]

Dec, 11

Regarding Henry ** (1991, Harrison Ford, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 7882

Director Mike Nichols reunites with his Working Girl star Harrison Ford for the much less exciting 1991 Regarding Henry. Ford stars as heartless hotshot lawyer Henry Turner, who is shot in a holdup. Bening also […]

Dec, 05

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