Derek Winnert

The Sound Barrier *** (1952, Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Dinah Sheridan, Joseph Tomelty, Denholm Elliott, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7086

Director David Lean commendably examines questions of principle in his sombre 1952 film The Sound Barrier telling the stiff-upper-lipped story about aircraft designer JR (Ralph Richardson), a man so obsessed and ruthless that he puts […]

May, 22 · in Reviews

Madeleine *** (1950, Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, Ivor Barnard, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 7085

Madeleine (1949) is a lesser but still intriguing effort from ace all-time great British director David Lean, who casts his then wife Ann Todd in the real-life story of Madeleine Smith who was accused of […]

May, 22 · in Reviews

Made in Heaven *** (1987, Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray) – Classic Movie Review 7084

Director Alan Rudolph’s appealing but minor 1987 movie Made in Heaven stars Timothy Hutton as Mike Shea, who dies while performing an heroic act but returns from Heaven where he has fallen for Annie Packert […]

May, 22

Made in Heaven *** (1952, David Tomlinson, Petula Clark, Sonja Ziemann, A E Matthews, Charles Victor, Sophie Stewart, Richard Wattis, Athene Seyler Alfie Bass, Dora Bryan, Ferdy Mayne, Moira Lister, Ronnie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7083

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s spry though obviously dated 1952 British Technicolor film Made in Heaven is an almost heavenly Fifties comedy about the annual contest in the historic English market town of Dunmow for married couples […]

May, 22

Personal Affair ** (1953, Leo Genn, Gene Tierney, Glynis Johns, Pamela Brown, Walter Fitzgerald, Megs Jenkins, Michael Hordern, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 7082

Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British film Personal Affair stars Leo Genn as Mr Barlow, a married Latin-language teacher as a British school who is the object of the infatuated affections of one of his pupils, 17-year-old Barbara […]

May, 22

The Magnet **** (1950, Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson, Thora Hird, Wylie Watson) – Classic Movie Review 7081

Director Charles Frend’s 1950 British film is an unpretentious, amusing and well-observed Ealing Studios comedy about a naughty 11-year-old boy called Johnny Brent (William Fox, now James Fox), who lands in a lot of bother […]

May, 22

Champagne Charlie **** (1944, Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Austin Trevor, Jean Kent, Guy Middleton, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 7080

Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1944 British comedy Champagne Charlie is lit up by its genius in providing perfect roles for Ealing Studios’ resident London comedians Trinder and Holloway in an original screenplay tale of rival music-hall singers […]

May, 22

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