Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Covent Garden"

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Davy ** (1958, Harry Secombe, Ron Randell, Alexander Knox, Susan Shaw, George Relph, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 7089

Director Michael Relph draws the bitter-sweet short straw of making Ealing Studios’ last comedy, the 1957 Davy, which is engaging enough but rather a sad affair. Harry Secombe stars as a young music-hall singing star […]

May, 23

Every Day Except Christmas **** (1957, dir Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1410

‘Free Cinema’ documentary director Lindsay Anderson painstakingly, wittily and sympathetically records the daily life and hard-graft toil of workers in London’s glorious old Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market. Made in 1957, the 37-minute documentary  is […]

Jul, 09

Frenzy **** (1972, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Bernard Cribbins, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Vivien Merchant, Billie Whitelaw, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 92

Written with great relish and expertise by Anthony Shaffer (author of the play Sleuth and The Wicker Man screenplay) and directed in England in a creative frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock, the 1972 thriller Frenzy is […]

Jul, 26

Hummingbird [Redemption] *** (2013, Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure) – Movie Review

The writer of Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things, Steven Knight, makes his director debut in this typical, would-be smart London low-life thriller starring Jason Statham – so you know exactly what to expect. Statham […]

Jul, 02

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