Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "theatre company"

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Noises Off… ** (1992, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 8889

Writer Michael Frayn’s hilarious West End and Broadway stage farce about the disasters that befall an inept travelling repertory theatre company putting on an English sex farce show (Nothing On) becomes director Peter Bogdanovich’s stagey, […]

Sep, 09

A Chorus of Disapproval *** (1989, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Richard Briers, Gareth Hunt, Patsy Kensit, Jenny Seagrove, Sylvia Syms, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 7774

Alan Ayckbourn’s brilliant 1983 bittersweet comedy play A Chorus of Disapproval, originally performed at Britain’s National Theatre, comes to the screen in 1988 produced and directed by Michael Winner and with a starry, starry cast […]

Nov, 11

 The Good Companions *** (1957, Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, John Fraser, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Bobby Howes, Thora Hird, Rachel Roberts ) – Classic Movie Review 7238

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1954 The Good Companions is an ideal Fifties film version of J B Priestley’s funny novel and play about a concert party on tour. Shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope, it stars Eric […]

Jun, 30

The Dresser *** (1983, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 4079

Producer-director Peter Yates turns Ronald Harwood’s 1980 hit play about veteran barnstorming-style ham Shakespearean actor-manager and his camp personal assistant dresser into the 1983 British film The Dresser, with Harwood writing his own screenplay. The […]

Jul, 25

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