Derek Winnert

The Wrong Trousers **** (1993, voice of Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 5566

Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s amusing, clever, and appealing 1993 Oscar-winning animated short film is the second of his four Academy Award winners, following Creature Comforts (1989). Peter Sallis again voices Wallace, who is used by […]

Jun, 09 · in Reviews

Creature Comforts **** (1989, voice of Julie Sedgewick) – Classic Movie Review 5564

Zoo animals state their case in writer-director Nick Park’s clever, appealing 1989 Oscar-winning animated short film, the first of his four Academy Awards, followed by The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and the Best Animated Feature […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

A Grand Day Out **** (1993, voice of Peter Sallis) Classic Movie Review 5563

Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s 25-minute Aardman 1993 Wallace and Gromit cartoon adventure is a richly enjoyable Oscar-nominated Best Animated Short Film, with a winning mix of comedy, cute Plasticine figures and charming stop motion animation. […]

Jun, 08

A Close Shave **** (1995, voices of Peter Sallis, Anne Reid) – Classic Movie Review 5562

Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s 30-minute Aardman 1995 Wallace and Gromit cartoon adventure – this time involving window-cleaners and sheep-sealers – is constantly inventive and hilarious. It won its maker Nick Park his third Oscar for […]

Jun, 08

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying **** (1967, Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 5447

Writer/ producer/ director David Swift’s 1967 American musical comedy film How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a most enjoyable, very jolly movie of a great Broadway show about the New York window cleaner called J […]

Jun, 08

Wuthering Heights *** (1970, Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Ogilvy, Judy Cornwell) – Classic Movie Review 5,558

Timothy Dalton and Anne Calder-Marshall are well cast as the doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy in the harder, stronger, unromantic 1970 version of the 1847 Emily Brontë classic novel Wuthering Heights. American horror company American International […]

Jun, 07

The Incredible Sarah ** (1976, Glenda Jackson, Daniel Massey, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 5561

Director Richard Fleischer’s well-produced but dull and unconvincing 1976 British drama is a disappointing and inaccurate biopic of the youth of the divine French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) who appeared in a clutch of silent […]

Jun, 07

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