Derek Winnert

Bon Voyage *** (1944, John Blythe, The Molière Players) – Classic Movie Review 7103

Bon Voyage (1944) is the first of two French language half-hour wartime propaganda films made during World War Two made by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. Hitchcock had been stung into coming back to […]

May, 27 · in Uncategorized

Aventure Malgache *** (1944, Paul Bonifas, Paul Clarus, Jean Dattas) – Classic Movie Review 7102

Alfred Hitchcock’s second British wartime propaganda short film in French Aventure Malgache (1944) was made immediately after Bon Voyage and was again filmed by him for the British Ministry of Information. Hitchcock recalled ‘It was […]

May, 27 · in Reviews

Simple Men **** (1992, Robert John Burke, William Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 7101

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s striking third feature Simple Men (1992) reaches the parts other movies do not, as a pair of brothers, Bill and Dennis McCabe (Robert John Burke, William Sage) – good boys with bad […]

May, 27

Quigley Down Under *** (1990, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood) – Classic Movie Review 7100

Director Simon Wincer’s enjoyable 1990 middle-of-the-road Aussie Western stars Tom Selleck as high, wide and handsome American cowboy adventurer and sharpshooter Matt Quigley, who is hired from Wyoming by black-hearted, villainous Australian rancher Elliott Marston […]

May, 27

Close My Eyes *** (1991, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 7099

Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff’s provocative, controversial 1991 British drama film Close My Eyes stars Clive Owen as Richard, an architect who is very close to his older sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves), who is married to a wealthy […]

May, 27

The Unbelievable Truth **** (1989, Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke) – Classic Movie Review 7098

Delightfully oddball characters, situations and dialogue are orchestrated endearingly by writer-director Hal Hartley in his auspicious 1989 début film The Unbelievable Truth. It is a rewarding, darkly satirical comedy of American small-town life about paroled […]

May, 27

The Mask of Fu Manchu *** (1932, Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, David Torrence) – Classic Movie Review 7,096

Boris Karloff stars as Dr Fu Manchu. He recalled: ‘Some scenes were written in beautiful Oxford English, others were written in God knows what!’ Playing his daughter Fah Lo See, Myrna Loy complained: ‘I can’t […]

May, 26

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