Derek Winnert

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The Long Day’s Dying ** (1968, David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell, Alan Dobie) – Classic Movie Review 11,675

Director Peter Collinson’s grim and gloomy 1968 film The Long Day’s Dying is based on a 1962 novel by Alan White, and stars David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell and Alan Dobie. Despite a screenplay […]

Oct, 24

A Bridge Too Far **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann) – Classic Movie Review 1.398

Director Richard Attenborough’s intelligent, well-meaning and honourable 1977 epic anti-war film A Bridge Too Far is rousingly staged on a huge canvas. It grasps the nettle of tackling the tricky subject of a military disaster, […]

Jul, 06

Red Dawn ** (2012, Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Robert Kitner, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) – Movie Review

The then Observer film critic Philip French told me recently that he was the only journalist to praise the 1984 Red Dawn (well, that’s not quite true, but you see what he means). Praising it […]

Mar, 24

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