Derek Winnert

Reviews

Murder Without Crime *** (1950, Dennis Price, Derek Farr, Joan Dowling, Patricia Plunkett) – Classic Movie Review 12,118

J Lee Thompson launches his career as director with the 1950 British crime thriller Murder Without Crime starring Dennis Price and Derek Farr. He had already launched his career as writer with the play version, […]

May, 13

The Yellow Balloon **** (1953, Andrew Ray, Kenneth More, William Sylvester, Kathleen Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 12,117

The Yellow Balloon (1953) was one of the first films to be passed with an X certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, which judged the chase through the London Underground station too frightening […]

May, 13

Alf’s Baby [Her Three Bachelors] ** (1953, Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 12,116

Three men and a little lady. Jerry Desmonde and Pauline Stroud get rare star roles in the 1953 British comedy film Alf’s Baby [Her Three Bachelors]. Three bachelors who run a shop are left raising […]

May, 12

Highway 301 **** (1950, Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, Robert Webber, Wally Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 12,115

‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]

May, 11

His Brother’s Wife [Lady of the Tropics] *** (1936, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge) – Classic Movie Review 12,114

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1936 MGM American romantic comedy drama film His Brother’s Wife [Lady of the Tropics] is based on a story by George Auerbach, and pairs Barbara Stanwyck with Robert Taylor. […]

May, 11

Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] ***** (1952, Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé, Romolo Bartolomeo, Lea Padovani, Massimo Girotti) – Classic Movie Review 12,113

The 1952 Italian film Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] is perhaps Giuseppe De Santis’s finest picture, a Neorealist look at postwar unemployment in an urban setting, entirely free from the banal melodrama and sex […]

May, 11

His and Hers * (1961, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde White, Nicole Maurey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Joan Hickson, Oliver Reed, Francesca Annis) – Classic Movie Review 12,112

The 1961 British comedy film His and Hers is just about worth the effort for glimpses of the vintage cast: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde White, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Joan Hickson, Oliver […]

May, 10

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