Derek Winnert

Night Must Fall **** (1937, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 6,630

MGM’s creepy 1937 thriller film Night Must Fall is the well-crafted original version of Emlyn Williams’s 1935 stage success chiller about a charming but psychopathic live-in companion (Robert Montgomery), who preys on a vain old […]

Jan, 31 · in Reviews

Raggedy Man *** (1981, Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 6629

Sissy Spacek, fresh from her Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), gets her husband Jack Fisk to direct her as Nita Longley, a spunky wartime divorcée, whose two sons are jealous when handsome sailor Eric Roberts arrives […]

Jan, 31 · in Reviews

Back Roads *** (1981, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6628

Sally Field rejoins her favourite director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae, Murphy’s Romance) for this familiar but easy-going and likeable 1981 romantic-comedy road movie drama about a prostitute called Amy Post (Field) and a drifter failed fighter named Elmore […]

Jan, 30

Disraeli *** (1929, George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Florence Arliss, Joan Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6627

George Arliss and his wife Florence Arliss reprise their roles as Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Lady Beaconsfield from their silent movie Disraeli (1921) in director Alfred E Green’s 1929 remake. Aged 61, ‘Mr’ George Arliss gets a […]

Jan, 30

Captain Clegg [Night Creatures] **** (1962, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 6626

Director Peter Graham Scott’s 1962 Hammer Films period adventure is a generally very welcome reworking of novel writer Russell Thorndike’s Dr Syn, with the odd extra Hammer-style horror shock and fright to spruce up the […]

Jan, 30

Dr Syn, Alias the Scarecrow **** (1962, Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton, Geoffrey Keen, Kay Walsh, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 6625

Director James Neilson’s rousing 1962 adventure movie stars Patrick McGoohan, who has great fun as the innocent-looking minister Dr Christopher Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day who turns by night into the notorious […]

Jan, 30

Dr Syn *** (1937, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder, Roy Emerton, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6624

George Arliss’s last movie sees him as Dr Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day but moonlighting as the notorious pirate Captain Clegg by night. Old-style actor Arliss gives an antique barnstorming performance […]

Jan, 30

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