Derek Winnert

Old Mother Riley’s Jungle Treasure * (1951, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Garry Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 13,093

The zany 1951 British comedy film Old Mother Riley’s Jungle Treasure is the penultimate, very silly series entry starring drag act Arthur Lucan and his wife Kitty McShane. Director Maclean Rogers’s zany 1951 British comedy […]

Sep, 04 · in Reviews

The First Gentleman [Affairs of a Rogue] *** (1948, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,092

Cecil Parker’s flamboyant performance as George, the 19th-century British Prince Regent, lights up the 1948 British historical drama film The First Gentleman [Affairs of a Rogue]. Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s rather stuffy and fusty 1948 British […]

Sep, 04 · in Reviews

Soho Incident [Spin a Dark Web] *** (1956, Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 13,091

A Canadian veteran (Lee Patterson) living in London meets femme fatale Bella (Faith Domergue), who draws him into her brother’s gangland activities, in the brisk 1956 British film noir Soho Incident. Director Vernon Sewell’s brisk […]

Sep, 03

Beyond the Curtain ** (1960, Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, Andrée Melly, George Mikell) – Classic Movie Review 13,090

The 1960 British independent thriller film Beyond the Curtain is based on Charles F Blair and A J Wallis’s novel Thunder Above, and stars Richard Greene, Eva Bartok and Marius Goring. Director Compton Bennett’s moderate […]

Sep, 03

Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes ** (1989, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Norman Lloyd and Fredric Lehne) – Classic Movie Review 13,089

Sandor Stern’s 1989 American supernatural horror film Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes is the made-for-TV part four of the series, and stars Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Norman Lloyd and Fredric Lehne. Director Sandor Stern’s 1989 […]

Sep, 03

The Case of the Frightened Lady *** (1940, Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley Ward, Helen Haye, Patrick Barr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 13,088

George King’s venerable 1940 British mystery thriller film The Case of the Frightened Lady is based on the 1931 play by Edgar Wallace and stars Marius Goring as Lord Lebanon, Helen Haye as Lady Lebanon, […]

Sep, 02

Lorna Doone *** (1934, Victoria Hopper, John Loder)– Classic Movie Review 13,087

Basil Dean’s 1934 film Lorna Doone stars Victoria Hopper as the lovely heroine of R D Blackmore’s dramatic love story about a peasant’s passion for a criminal’s daughter. ‘In the lawless times of which I […]

Sep, 01

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