Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "romance"

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The Lady and the Highwayman *** (1989, Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Hugh Grant, Michael York, John Mills, Ian Bannen, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9970

Cavaliers versus Roundheads, lecherous lords and lovely ladies, masked men and moody mistressess – John Hough’s 1988 swashbuckling adventure The Lady and the Highwayman was a new Gainsborough Picture, no less, happily reviving memories of the […]

Jun, 28

Interlude *** (1957, June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay, Keith Andes) – Classic Movie Review 6671

Douglas Sirk directs this heady 1957 four-hankie, majorly tear-jerking romantic melodrama, a remake of the 1939 hit When Tomorrow Comes, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, based on the original story A Modern Cinderella by James M Cain, […]

Feb, 10

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool **** (2017, Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber) – Movie Review

In 1981, British actor Peter Turner got a dramatic phone call that his former lover, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing hospital care. Film Stars Don’t […]

Oct, 26

Lloyd’s of London *** (1936, Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Guy Standing, Virginia Field, Montagu Love, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 4688

Director Henry King’s 1936 period drama stars Tyrone Power, whose career took off with this role as Lloyd’s insurance boss Jonathan Blake, who, it is alleged, is the friend of Lord Nelson (John Burton). Blake […]

Nov, 23

Song without End * (1960, Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 4601

The 1960 musical biopic Song without End is a famously awful version of the life of composer Franz Liszt and his scandalous romance with Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein. Dirk Bogarde and Capucine are horribly miscast and […]

Nov, 06

Mum’s List **** (2016, Rafe Spall, Emilia Fox, Elaine Cassidy, Ross McCormack, Sophie Simnett) – Movie Review

Emilia Fox and particularly Rafe Spall give the most poignant and brilliant performances as a loving married couple in this heart-rending real-life story. In an obvious labour of love, Mum’s List is very carefully and […]

Nov, 01

Calamity Jane ***** (1953, Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie) – Classic Movie Review 3345

Director David Butler’s 1953 classic Golden Age musical Calamity Jane stars Doris Day as the titular gun-toting, whip-cracking Wild West whirlwind, along with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. Sammy Fain’s haunting, show-stopping romantic number […]

Feb, 11

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