Derek Winnert

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Graffiti Bridge ** (1990, Prince, Morris Day, Ingrid Chavez, Mavis Staples) – Classic Movie Review 5183

‘Are there really angels, or are they just in our minds? It all comes out in the wash… in time.’ – The Kid. Writer, director and star Prince follows up his hits Purple Rain (1984) and Under the […]

Mar, 20

Saraband for Dead Lovers **** (1948, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Françoise Rosay, Flora Robson, Peter Bull, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 5058

Directors Basil Dearden and Michael Relph’s attractive 1948 British oddity Saraband for Dead Lovers stars Joan Greenwood as sad young Sophie Dorothea of Celle, the arranged-marriage wife of the effete Prince George Louis of Hanover, […]

Feb, 25

The Prince Who Was a Thief *** (1951, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Peggie Castle, Donald Randolph, Jeff Corey, Betty Garde, Marvin Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4,542

Life magazine attributed the supposed line of doubtful authenticity ‘Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder’ to Tony Curtis in the 1951 Technicolor The Prince Who Was a Thief. Apocryphal it may be, […]

Oct, 26

The Black Shield of Falworth **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Herbert Marshall, Ian Keith, Rhys Williams, Dan O’Herlihy, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4,540

The 1954 movie The Black Shield of Falworth is an engagingly merry jape, in which Tony Curtis heads a starry cast as the dashingly handsome young Myles Falworth of Crisby Dale, who is in love […]

Oct, 26

Andrei Rublev ***** (1966, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko) – Classic Movie Review 4212

This re-creation of imaginary events in the life of the 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) is one of director Andrei Tarkovsky’s movie masterpieces, along with Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Mirror (1975) and The Sacrifice (1986). In the […]

Aug, 21

The Swan **** (1956, Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 3981

Director Charles Vidor’s 1956 romantic drama movie is MGM’s wedding gift to Grace Kelly, who quit the movies and her glittering star career to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco. MGM released the film on her wedding […]

Jul, 05

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger ** (1977, Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power) – Classic Movie Review 3717

Patrick Wayne is dull as Sinbad in director Sam Wanamaker’s less exciting 1977 sequel to The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958, played by Kerwin Mathews) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973, played by John Phillip Law). […]

May, 19

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