Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Cockney"

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No Trees in the Street ** (1959, Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Joan Miller, Melvyn Hayes, Stanley Holloway, Liam Redmond, Ronald Howard, Carole Lesley, Lana Morris) – Classic Movie Review 12,413

Sylvia Syms’s still touching performance is the best thing about the well-meaning 1959 British crime thriller drama film No Trees in the Street, set in the slums of London. Ted Willis adapts his 1948 kitchen […]

Jan, 28

The Happy Family ** (1952, Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 11,763

Director Muriel Box’s 1952 British comedy The Happy Family [Mr Lord Says No] Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne and George Cole, and a glorious old Brit cast. Producer-writer Sydney Box left Rank to go independent […]

Dec, 03

Three Hats for Lisa * (1965, Joe Brown, Sidney James, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs, Dave Nelson, Peter Bowles, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 11,477

The inept 1965 Swinging Sixties London musical chase comedy Three Hats for Lisa has one of the most unpromising film plots of all time. Joe Brown, Sid James, Sophie Hardy and Una Stubbs star.  Director […]

Aug, 14

The Ringer **** (1952, Herbert Lom, Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Greta Gynt, William Hartnell, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 10,844

Guy Hamilton makes his directorial debut with the stylishly old-fashioned 1952 British black and white crime thriller The Ringer, one of the best films taken from Edgar Wallace’s work, the 1925 novel The Gaunt Stranger […]

Jan, 29

On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] *** (1961, Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White, Kathleen Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8139

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1961 On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] is an enjoyably fun and fairly smart British black and white World War Two wartime farce, made out of its time at the start of the Sixties. […]

Feb, 17

Villain *** (1971, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Sinden, T P McKenna, Fiona Lewis, Tony Selby, Colin Welland) – Classic Movie Review 7065

Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but distasteful 1971 movie Villain is an effective but unattractive and revoltingly violent British gangster thriller, with Richard Burton giving a strong account of himself in an extremely nasty and unsympathetic […]

May, 17

Gambit *** (1966, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 2417

Director Ronald Neame’s entertaining, modish 1966 comedy thriller Gambit stars Michael Caine in his first Hollywood movie, made at Universal Studios, California. It casts him as Harry, an ambitious London cat burglar who embroils dancer […]

Apr, 21

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