Derek Winnert

Tudor Rose [Nine Days a Queen] ** (1936, Nova Pilbeam, Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7092

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1936 Gainsborough Pictures’ historical biopic Tudor Rose is the first film to tell the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, England’s queen for nine days in 1553 before she was executed by beheading for […]

May, 25 · in Reviews

Solo: A Star Wars Story *** (2018, Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke) – Movie Review 

Director: Ron Howard’s 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story is okay as a pleasant time-passer and has some enjoyable sequences and entertaining characters. But it is a bit sticky and stodgy in places, and it […]

May, 25 · in Reviews

This Is the Army *** (1943, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Irving Berlin) – Classic Movie Review 7091

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1943 movie This Is the Army provides military musical mayhem aplenty in this extravagant Technicolor wartime revue by Irving Berlin which, at the time of its release during World War Two, made […]

May, 24

Cheer Boys Cheer *** (1939, Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Jimmy O’Dea, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Peter Coke, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 7,090

The 1939 British comedy film Cheer Boys Cheer is Ealing Studios’ last release before WW2, with its delightful players Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott providing considerable cheer. Director Walter Forde’s 1939 […]

May, 24

Davy ** (1958, Harry Secombe, Ron Randell, Alexander Knox, Susan Shaw, George Relph, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 7089

Director Michael Relph draws the bitter-sweet short straw of making Ealing Studios’ last comedy, the 1957 Davy, which is engaging enough but rather a sad affair. Harry Secombe stars as a young music-hall singing star […]

May, 23

The Loves of Joanna Godden *** (1947, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Chips Rafferty) – Classic Movie Review 7088

Director Charles Frend’s nicely done but mild 1947 Ealing Studios romantic drama, taken from Sheila Kaye-Smith’s novel Joanna Godden, is set in England in the Edwardian period. It is Romney Marsh, between Kent and Sussex, in 1905. […]

May, 23

The Passionate Friends **** (1949, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel Dean) – Classic Movie Review 7087

David Lean’s 1949 film The Passionate Friends is an underrated Brief Encounter-style romantic drama about a woman (Ann Todd) caught between two men – her husband (Claude Rains) and her first love (Trevor Howard). Director […]

May, 22

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