Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "WW1"

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Dark Journey **** (1937, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7806

Sparkling performances from the sleek and sexy team of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt light up producer-director Victor Saville’s 1937 thriller Dark Journey [The Anxious Years], an involvingly dark and complex British espionage movie set […]

Nov, 19

War Requiem **** (1989, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 6483

Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1989 film is a magnificent visual interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s 1962 ‘War Requiem’ and evocation of the life and death in the trenches of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen. There […]

Dec, 28

Journey’s End **** (2017, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham ) – Movie Review

A new film version of R C Sherriff’s famous play (and novel) Journey’s End was inevitable sooner or later. Actually it is later, for we have had to wait till the impending 100th anniversary of […]

Oct, 06

Up the Front ** (1972, Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, William Mervyn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Dora Bryan, Lance Percival, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5895

Director Bob Kellett’s saucily coarse, very much hit-and-miss 1972 British comedy Up the Front stars the great comedian Frankie Howerd, who is again is on tittersome form as Lurk, Lord Twithampton (William Mervyn)’s cowardly servant. […]

Aug, 11

Lilac Time [Love Never Dies] **** (1928, Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 5487

Director George Fitzmaurice’s sweet, simple and strong 1928 romantic drama is a silent movie with a musical score and sound effects, featuring the song Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, and has attractive performances from […]

May, 22

The Light Between Oceans *** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Anthony Hayes) – Movie Review

Derek Cianfrance’s first film since his edgy epic crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) is a very different kind of movie, a classy old-style romantic drama about a World War One battle-scarred, world-weary lighthouse keeper, Tom […]

Oct, 20

Broken Lullaby **** (1932, Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Tom Douglas, ZaSu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4463

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s unique 1932 serious drama is based on Maurice Rostand’s play L’Homme Que J’ai Tué (The Man I Killed) about a French youth called Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) who sets out to try to find […]

Oct, 06

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