Derek Winnert

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That Kind of Woman *** (1959, Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, George Sanders, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 8132

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1959 drama That Kind of Woman is the soapy melodramatic romantic tale of a society woman, Kay (Sophia Loren), giving up the high life with her wealthy industrialist fancy man A L […]

Feb, 14

The Nun’s Story **** (1959, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 8127

‘He that shall lose his life for me shall find it.’ Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1959 The Nun’s Story stars the always beautiful Audrey Hepburn, who disguises her usual chic beauty and shines in a strong […]

Feb, 13

Catch-22 **** (Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 7941

Buck Henry’s screenplay to bring to the screen the complex Joseph Heller satirical novel Catch-22 about the absurdities of life in an American wartime Air Force camp is not perfect. But it is intelligent, dark […]

Dec, 23

The Safecracker *** (1958, Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke) – Classic Movie Review 7918

Ray Milland directs and stars in the 1958 British low-budget film noir thriller The Safecracker, an involving, fact-based story of a locksmith, gone criminal as an antiques robber, freed from a 10-year jail term in […]

Dec, 17

The Pied Piper *** (1942, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J Carrol Naish Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner ) – Classic Movie Review 7910

Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]

Dec, 16

Overlord *** (2018, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, John Magaro, Pilou Asbæk, Iain De Caestecker) – Movie Review

Director Julius Avery’s Overlord (2018) is an exceptionally nasty and violent horror movie action thriller done with much conviction, zest and style. Audiences will need very strong stomachs, maybe even sick bags. The body count […]

Nov, 06

Return to Paradise ** (1953, Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes) – Classic Movie Review 7686

Director Mark Robson’s 1953 Return to Paradise stars Gary Cooper as Mr Morgan, a drifter sailor who lives in romantic bliss on the remote Pacific island of Matareva with island native Maeva (Roberta Haynes) in […]

Oct, 21

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