Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

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Rich and Famous *** (1981, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill, Meg Ryan, Michael Brandon, Matt Lattanzi, Dack Rambo) – Classic Movie Review 10,528

Director George Cukor’s last film (at the age of 82) is the 1981 American drama Rich and Famous, an amusing, involving remake of 1943’s Old Acquaintance, with Jacqueline Bisset as sulky Liz Hamilton and Candice […]

Nov, 11

Lost Horizon (1973, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 10,524

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]

Nov, 10

Way Down East ** (1935, Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville) – Classic Movie Review 10,380

Director Henry King’s 1935 Way Down East is a mostly dull and soppy Fox Studio sound version remake of D W Griffith’s famous 1920 silent melodrama Way Down East about a done-wrong-by young woman called […]

Oct, 04

The Corn Is Green *** (1979, Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 10,371

Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]

Oct, 01

The Brady Bunch Movie *** (1995, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor, Michael McKean, Jean Smart) – Classic Movie Review 10,338

Director Betty Thomas’s light-hearted 1995 nostalgia comedy The Brady Bunch Movie brings a lot of laughs and simple fun at the expense of the Seventies and the original 1969–1974 television show The Brady Bunch in […]

Sep, 22

What a Carve Up! ** (1961, Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Donald Pleasence, Michael Gough, Esma Cannon, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 10,280

What a silly title! The Americans did not fancy What a Carve Up! and the 1961 horror comedy was released in the US as No Place Like Homicide! London West End farceur Ray Cooney (Run […]

Sep, 09

The Shepherd of the Hills *** (1964, Richard Arlen, James Middleton, Sherry Lynn, Hal Meadows) – Classic Movie Review 10,231

Writer-director Ben Parker’s 1964 low-budget double-feature Western film The Shepherd of the Hills is a pleasant independent film remake of the 1941 semi-classic The Shepherd of the Hills, based on Harold Bell Wright’s 1907 novel, […]

Aug, 27

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