Derek Winnert

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A Guy Named Joe **** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Ward Bond, Esther Williams, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 4257

Director Victor Fleming’s 1944 MGM sentimental wartime fantasy is much beloved of Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss, who remade it in 1989 as Always. Spencer Tracy stars as Major Pete Sandidge, a fighter pilot who […]

Aug, 28

Looking for Mr Goodbar *** (1977, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere, Alan Feinstein, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer, LeVar Burton, Brian Dennehy) – Classic Movie Review 4187

Diane Keaton may be oddly cast but she grabs one of her best non-Woody Allen opportunities as bar-hopper Theresa Dunn, a Catholic school teacher of deaf children by day who by night takes to the singles bars […]

Aug, 17

Hold Back the Dawn **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 4180

Happily, there is no holding back director Mitchell Leisen’s marvellous 1941 vintage romantic comedy, based securely on a top-flight Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay (based on the story Memo to a Movie Producer by Ketti Frings) that is […]

Aug, 16

Harry and Tonto ****½ (1974, Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman, Arthur Hunnicutt, Josh Mostel, Melanie Mayron, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 4161

Co-writer/ producer/ director Paul Mazursky provides one of Art Carney’s two roles of a lifetime in this 1974 comedy adventure. Carney deservedly won the 1975 Best Actor Oscar as wise old widower Harry Coombs, a […]

Aug, 12

Goodbye, Mr Chips **** (1939, Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid, Lyn Harding, Austin Trevor, Terry Kilburn, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 4140

Director Sam Wood’s vintage 1939 drama Goodbye, Mr Chips puts the spotlight on Robert Donat, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his masterly portrayal of a prim and proper classics teacher at a boys’ boarding […]

Aug, 07

Running On Empty **** (1988, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Ed Crowley) – Classic Movie Review 4093

Director Sidney Lumet’s thoughtful and intelligent 1988 thriller stars Judd Hirsh and Christine Lahti, who give ideal performances as counterculture couple Arthur and Annie Pope, married former Sixties radicals who blew up a napalm research facility […]

Jul, 27

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie *** (1969, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Celia Johnson, Gordon Jackson, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 4,020

Maggie Smith won the 1970 Best Actress Oscar for her delightful playing of the headstrong Thirties Edinburgh schoolmarm Jean Brodie, in the enjoyable 1969 drama film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. When she was […]

Jul, 14

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