Derek Winnert

Avalanche Express ** (1979, Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Horst Buchholz, Mike Connors ) – Classic Movie Review 6,400

Real-life tragedy occurred during the production of the ambitious big-budget 1979 European spy action thriller film Avalanche Express, when star Robert Shaw and director Mark Robson both died of heart attacks. Real-life tragedy occurred during […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Fanny *** (1961, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz) – Classic Movie Review 6399

Director Joshua Logan’s romantic 1961 film is Hollywood’s second version of Marcel Pagnol’s Marius trilogy (first made in America before as Port of Seven Seas in 1938) arriving on screen via Logan’s and S N Behrman’s […]

Dec, 12 · in Reviews

The Angelic Conversation ***½ (1985, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, voice of Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 6398

Derek Jarman’s haunting 1985 experimental film is his interpretation of 14 William Shakespeare sonnets, eloquently read by Judi Dench, as the images show a young man seeking the man of his heart’s desire. Jarman chooses […]

Dec, 12

Angel Face ****½ (1953, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall, Barbara O’Neil, Leon Ames, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 6,397

Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]

Dec, 12

César ***** (1936, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, André Fouché, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6396

Marcel Pagnol wrote the third part of his marvellous Marius trilogy especially for the cinema, and this time he directs the film himself too. It follows Marius (1931) and Fanny (1932). It is slower, longer […]

Dec, 11

Marius ***** (1931, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6395

Marius is directed by the Hungarian film-maker Alexander Korda in 1931 during his stay in Paris before coming over to fly the flag for the British film industry as the founder of London Films and […]

Dec, 11

Fanny ***** (1932, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6394

Director Marc Allégret’s 1932 French classic is the middle episode in the marvellous Marcel Pagnol Marius trilogy, a highspot of world cinema, following the first film Marius (1931). Orane Demazis stars as the abandoned pregnant […]

Dec, 11

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