Derek Winnert

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The Love Ban * (1973, Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman, Milo O’Shea, Angharad Rees, Nicky Henson) – Classic Movie Review 11,100

Director Ralph Thomas’s desperate 1973 British film It’s a 2’6’ above the Ground World [The Love Ban] is a mucky, horribly dated Seventies British comedy, with lots of swearing and back then supposedly ‘daring’ gags, […]

Apr, 15

It’s a Great Day! *** (1955, Ruth Dunning, Edward Evans, Sheila Sweet, Sidney James, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 11,099

Director John Warrington’s 1956 British black and white comedy It’s a Great Day! is the feature film version of the hit BBC TV soap opera The Grove Family, with original stars Ruth Dunning and Edward […]

Apr, 15

Three Brave Men *** (1956, Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 11,075

‘Heart-Warming Story Of One Man And His Family Caught Up In The Merciless Web Of Rumor, Gossip And Prejudice!’ Writer-director Philip Dunne’s sincere 1956 20th Century Fox CinemaScope widescreen black and white Cold War drama […]

Apr, 05

Symptoms [The Blood Virgin] *** (1974, Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron) – Classic Movie Review 11,061

Director José Ramón Larraz’s creepy and suspenseful 1974 British drive-in classic exploitation horror film Symptoms stars Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan and Lorna Heilbron. The Repulsion-style film, based on a story of mental dissolution by Thomas […]

Mar, 31

Le diable par la queue [The Devil by the Tail] *** (1969, Yves Montand, Madeleine Renaud, Maria Schell) – Classic Movie Review 11,060

French garage mechanic Charlie (Xavier Gélin) sabotages cars and takes the stranded motorists to stay at struggling owner the Marquise (Madeleine Renaud)’s mountain area hotel. But they get a shock when the baron César Maricorne […]

Mar, 30

Le diable au corps [Devil in the Flesh] **** (1947, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey, Jean Lara) – Classic Movie Review 11,059

Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1947 black and white film Le Diable au Corps [Devil in the Flesh] is a beautifully lush, erotic French World War One romantic drama, based on Raymond Raguet’s novel of adulterous passion, […]

Mar, 30

The Devil Thumbs a Ride *** (1947, Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford) – Classic Movie Review 11,058

‘NOT EVEN HER KISSES COULD HALT HIS FURY… when his evil brain cried KILL!’ Director Felix E Feist’s 1947 RKO Radio Pictures black and white film noir The Devil Thumbs a Ride stars Lawrence Tierney […]

Mar, 30

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