Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Shirley MacLaine"

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty *** (2013, Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Sean Penn, Adam Scott) – Movie Review

Ben Stiller directs, produces and stars in a pleasing but flawed, underachieving remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye film of James Thurber’s classic short story of a day-dreamer who escapes his dull, routine life as a Life […]

Dec, 20

The Trouble with Harry ***** (1955, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 427

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 brilliant, sophisticated black comedy thriller shines like a little diamond. It is set in a gorgeously rich-looking rural autumnal Vermont, where three are three gunshots and Arnie Rogers (Jerry Mathers, aged eight), a […]

Nov, 19

Sweet Charity ***** (1969, Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Sammy Davis Jnr, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban) – Classic Movie Review 426

Shirley MacLaine gives an exhilarating, ultra-dynamic star performance as Charity Hope Valentine in director Bob Fosse’s superlative 1969 film version of the great 1960s Broadway hit musical by Cy Coleman (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics). […]

Nov, 19

Ocean’s Eleven **** (1960, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Angie Dickinson, Patrice Wymore, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Richard Conte, Cesar Romero, Shirley MacLaine, George Raft, Red Skelton) – Classic Movie Review 149

The original 1960 Ocean’s Eleven is a very relaxed and agreeable comedy-crime caper with style to spare. Admittedly, at 127 minutes, it’s over long, too slackly paced, and the thin, fantasy thriller plot takes a […]

Aug, 10

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