Derek Winnert

Hell Below Zero *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6988

Alan Ladd had his second stay in Britain for director Mark Robson’s 1954 murder-at-sea mystery in which, as Duncan Craig, he becomes first mate on a whaler to find out why Judie Nordhal (Joan Tetzel)’s […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

Home and Away ** (1956, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Lana Morris, Charles Victor, Thora Hird, Leslie Henson, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 6989

Co-writer/ director Vernon Sewell’s 1956 movie Home and Away is not the film of the Eighties TV soap, but a merry typically Fifties British B-comedy with a fairly dreadful plot about a working-class family that […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

The Red Beret [Paratrooper] ** (1953, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen) – Classic Movie Review 6987

Just when Alan Ladd hit his career heights with Shane, along came director Terence Young’s mediocre 1953 British-made angst-filled wartime action drama to pull him down again. Ladd plays an American soldier who causes his […]

May, 01

Black Jack *** (1979, Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval) – Classic Movie Review 6986

Writer-director Ken Loach’s dark and complex 1979 costume adventure drama is based on Leon Garfield’s novel about the adventures of a roguish 18th-century French sailor and thief called Black Jack (Jean Franval) in Yorkshire who […]

May, 01

A Little Romance *** (1979, Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard ) – Classic Movie Review 6985

Director George Roy Hill’s sweet and entertaining 1979 romantic comedy movie stars Laurence Olivier as Julius, an old storytelling pickpocket who befriends a couple of teenage brats and gets them to run away with him […]

May, 01

Moonrise Kingdom **** (2012, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 6,984 

Wes Anderson’s clever, eye-catching 2012 American coming-of-age comedy drama film stars Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as an orphan boy and his pen pal who run away to an isolated beach. The ever quirky co-writer/ director Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom […]

May, 01

The Huggetts Abroad ** (1949, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, Dinah Sheridan, Hugh McDermott, Jimmy Hanley, Peter Hammond, Amy Veness) – Classic Movie Review 6983

Ken Annaklin’s spirited 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad is the third in the film trilogy spun off from the popular characters in 1947’s Holiday Camp.  Director Ken Annaklin’s 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad […]

Apr, 30

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