Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "plane crash"

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Lost Horizon ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,210

Shangri-la seems to be the perfect escape, but is it the Utopia it appears? Frank Capra’s charming 1937 romantic adventure film Lost Horizon stars Ronald Colman. Director Frank Capra’s 1937 romantic adventure classic film Lost […]

Feb, 24

Erebus: Into the Unknown *** (2014) – Movie Review

Director Charlotte Purdy’s powerful and compelling documentary tells the true story of the New Zealand cops who tackled the aftermath of one of the world’s worst ever aviation disasters. On 28 November 28 1979, a jet with […]

Jan, 07

Unbroken **** (2014, Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Treadaway, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review

Unbroken is a gruelling, harrowing and upsetting true-life story of unimaginably appalling wartime suffering. But the film is brilliantly done and another feather in the cap of our little marvel Jack O’Connell. O’Connell hits the […]

Dec, 18

The Flight of the Phoenix **** (1965, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1088

Producer/director Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix finds him on safe ground with a highly enjoyable and satisfying, character-driven disaster-survival movie, in which an aircraft is downed when a sudden sandstorm shuts […]

Apr, 13

The Edge **** (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson) – Classic Movie Review 1031

Director Lee Tamahori’s 1997 adventure offers Anthony Hopkins a chance he eagerly grabs to enjoy has a field day as an endlessly resourceful billionaire who suffers a plane crash and has to survive the Alaskan […]

Apr, 01

Random Hearts *** (1999, Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S Dutton, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 932

Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s 1999 romance focuses on the anger and grief that bring two strangers (Internal Affairs officer Harrison Ford, Congresswoman Kristin Scott Thomas) together after a plane crash that kills their respective faithless spouses […]

Mar, 18

Foreign Correspondent ***** (1940, Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Albert Bassermann, George Sanders, Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Benchley, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck) – Classic Movie Review 446

Foreign Correspondent (1940) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest classic movies, yet it is not as well known as some of his other masterworks. The reason for that is almost certainly only that it doesn’t […]

Nov, 24

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