Derek Winnert

The Lamp Still Burns **** (1943, Rosamund John, Stewart Granger, Godfrey Tearle, Joyce Grenfell, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6,962

The heartfelt 1943 British nursing and romantic drama film The Lamp Still Burns tells the tale of the trials and tribulations of young nurses during wartime. Director Maurice Elvey’s heartfelt 1943 British nursing and romantic […]

Apr, 24 · in Reviews

Green Card ** (1990, Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky, Lois Smith) – Classic Movie Review 6961

Writer-producer-director Peter Weir’s 1990 romantic comedy is amiable enough but largely unfunny and unbelievable, with Gérard Depardieu showing the strain in his Hollywood debut as Georges, a French composer who enters into a marriage of […]

Apr, 24 · in Reviews

Green for Danger ***** (1946, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Megs Jenkins, Leo Genn, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 6960

‘Follow this man in the FOOTSTEPS of MURDER!’ Co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s 1946 British black comedy Green for Danger stars Alastair Sim at the zenith of his comic genius as the eccentric Inspector Cockrill of […]

Apr, 23

Romance in Manhattan *** (1935, Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 6959

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1935 comedy/romance film is the Green Card of its day in its story that has a hapless foreigner, Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a naive Czech immigrant, who arrives at Ellis Island in New […]

Apr, 23

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society *** (2018, Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Matthew Goode, Penelope Wilton) – Movie Review

Despite its faults, Mike Newell’s picturesque period romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War Two, is compelling and its accompanying mystery is intriguing. It comes from the producers of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, […]

Apr, 23

Revolution * (1985, Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 6958

Director Hugh Hudson’s costly and ambitious but doomed 1985 historical drama Revolution proved a disaster for the British director, who misguidedly examines what it was like to be swept up in the American War of […]

Apr, 22

Rollover *** (1981, Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer, Bob Gunton, Jodi Long) – Classic Movie Review 6,957

Jane Fonda stars in the intelligent, upmarket 1981 romantic mystery thriller film Rollover, her third film for director Alan J Pakula, after her Oscar-winning Klute and Comes a Horseman.  Jane Fonda stars in the 1981 […]

Apr, 22

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