Derek Winnert

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Bitter Moon ** (1992, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 6682

For his 1992 romantic thriller drama Bitter Moon, co-writer/ producer/ director Roman Polanski looks at modern marriage and comes up with a very old shaggy dog story. Aboard a ship to Istanbul on their way […]

Feb, 12

Reap the Wild Wind **** (1942, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, John Wayne, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston) – Classic Movie Review 6609

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s swashbuckling 1942 sea-faring high-adventure movie Reap the Wild Wind is a wildly extravagant, enormously entertaining and a hugely enjoyable experience. The film won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (for Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, William L Pereira […]

Jan, 27

Road to Rio *** (1947, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 6605

Director Norman Z McLeod’s zesty 1947 Paramount comedy is the fifth Road film with the magic team of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour on vivacious form. Nutty, escapist comedies were ideal for the […]

Jan, 26

The Bounty **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6593

The Bounty (1984) was originally a project for David Lean, who started to work again with screen-writer Robert Bolt on an ambitious two-part movie about the mutiny on the Bounty towards the end of the […]

Jan, 23

Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst [Battle Hell] *** (1957, Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 6543

Director Michael Anderson’s meticulously crafted 1957 true-story account of the crippled British warship HMS Amethyst’s escape through heavy fire from being trapped on Yangtse River by the Red Chinese in 1949 is based on the […]

Jan, 10

Free Willy 3: The Rescue ** (1997, Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Vincent Berry, Patrick Kilpatrick) – Classic Movie Review 6423

Jason James Richter, the appealing one-boy save-the-whale campaigner from Free Willy (1993), is back for his third and final film as killer whale Willy’s pal Jesse, now aged 16, to try to save the orca whale […]

Dec, 17

Marius ***** (1931, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6395

Marius is directed by the Hungarian film-maker Alexander Korda in 1931 during his stay in Paris before coming over to fly the flag for the British film industry as the founder of London Films and […]

Dec, 11

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