Derek Winnert

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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum **** (1975, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow) – Classic Movie Review 12,876

Angela Winkler stars in the outstanding 1975 West German political drama film The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum [Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum], based on the 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll. The outstanding, valuable, […]

May, 05

Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary] ** (1983, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Leopold von Verschuer) – Classic Movie Review 12,875

Angela Winkler won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for the 1983 German psychological thriller film Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary]. Patricia Highsmith hated the film of her admired novel: ‘a lot of […]

May, 05

Invasion *** (1965, Edward Judd, Valerie Gearon, Lyndon Brook, Yoko Tani, Tsai Chin, Barrie Ingham) – Classic Movie Review 12,874

Aliens crash land near a hospital and mount a night attack on an English village, in the surprisingly sprightly and inventive British 1965 sci-fi film Invasion. Director Alan Bridges’s eerie 1965 Merton Park Studios low-budget British science […]

May, 04

Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] *** (1978, Brigitte Fossey, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Bernhard Wicki) – Classic Movie Review 12,873

The understandably hard-to-please Patricia Highsmith approved of Hans W Geißendörfer’s gratifying 1978 West German crime film version of her 1964 masterwork novel The Glass Cell. Director Hans W Geißendörfer’s Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] […]

May, 04

Tomorrow We Live [At Dawn We Die] ** (1942, John Clements, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Yvonne Arnaud, Godfrey Tearle) – Classic Movie Review 12,872

The 1942 wartime morale booster British film Tomorrow We Live [At Dawn We Die] stars John Clements, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair and Yvonne Arnaud. It shows the French Resistance at work and the Germans shooting […]

May, 03

Lord Edgware Dies ** (2000, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Helen Grace, John Castle, Fiona Allen, Dominic Guard, Christopher Guard) – Classic Movie Review 12,871

The 2000 murder mystery film Lord Edgware Dies is based on the 1933 novel by Agatha Christie, with a screenplay by Anthony Horowitz, and stars David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Director Brian Farnham’s 2000 murder mystery […]

May, 02

Lord Edgware Dies ** (1934, Austin Trevor, Jane Carr, Richard Cooper, John Turnbull) – Classic Movie Review 12,870

Austin Trevor makes a decent, convincingly meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the 1934 murder mystery film Lord Edgware Dies, based on the 1933 novel by Agatha Christie. Director Henry Edwards’s 1934 murder mystery film […]

May, 02

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