Derek Winnert

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Shopworn *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Clara Blandick) – Classic Movie Review 8449

Director Nick [Nicholas] Grinde’s 1932 drama Shopworn is a typical early Thirties pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck vehicle, both fiery and lusty, in which she plays Kitty Lane, a young, poor, struggling waitress driven to a Reformatory […]

May, 09

The Reluctant Debutante ***½ (1958, Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Angela Lansbury, Peter Myers, Diane Clare) – Classic Movie Review 4,511

Vincente Minnelli’s funny 1958 film The Reluctant Debutante stars Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall as a couple who decide to launch their reluctant debutante daughter (Sandra Dee) into posh society. It is a […]

Oct, 23

Great Expectations ***** (1946, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 843

Director David Lean’s truly great, double Oscar-winning 1946 version of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations is still the best version on film. It is even perhaps the best Dickens movie ever. The famous story centres on the […]

Feb, 18

Blue Jasmine **** (2013, Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale) – Movie Review

Blue Jasmine is superb. You’d never know this was a Woody Allen film if it wasn’t for the credits and the old-time jazz score. You know the two masks of theatre, smiley face, sad face. […]

Aug, 27

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