Derek Winnert

Pimpernel Smith **** (1941, Leslie Howard, Mary Morris, Francis L Sullivan, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 5435

Producer/ director/ star Leslie Howard takes the Scarlet Pimpernel character into World War Two in his witty and exciting 1941 film reworking, with the director-star himself returning to one of his most famous roles in […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

One Night Stand *** (1997, Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Downey Jr, Kyle MacLachlan) – Classic Movie Review 5434

Unfaithfully married LA ad director Max (Wesley Snipes) tries to sort out the mess of his life after he has a sexy one night stand with Karen (Nastassja Kinski) in director Mike Figgis’s well-acted and […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ***** (1941, Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Bernard Miles, Googie Withers, Pamela Brown, Peter Ustinov) – Classic Movie Review 5433

One of our British bombers – B for Bertie – is damaged by Nazi anti-aircraft fire and has come down in Holland where its stalwart pukka British crew (played by Hugh Burden, Eric Portman, Hugh […]

May, 11

There Was a Crooked Man *** (1960, Norman Wisdom, Andrew Cruickshank, Alfred Marks, Susannah York, Reginald Beckwith, Jean Clarke, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 5432

‘Hair Raising! Roof Raising! A Feast Of Laughter!’ British laughter legend Norman Wisdom stars in director Stuart Burge’s playful 1960 vehicle for his particular style of comedy. In this independently made film, Wisdom does extend […]

May, 11

Frenchman’s Creek **** (1944, Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 5431

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1944 romance adventure drama finds Joan Fontaine profitably returning to the world of Daphne de Maurier, who provided her with her Hitchcock hit Rebecca. Fontaine stars as the titled romantic Englishwoman, Lady Dona […]

May, 11

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing *** (1975, Helen Hayes, Peter Ustinov, Derek Nimmo, Clive Revill, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 5430

Director Robert Stevenson’s old-style 1975 Twenties period Walt Disney dinosaur family adventure comedy movie offers plenty of good fun and frolics. It stars Peter Ustinov, dodgily cast as Hnup Wan of the Chinese London Intelligence Office, […]

May, 11

The Great Sinner *** (1949, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Ava Gardner, Agnes Moorehead, Ethel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 5429

  Gregory Peck stars as a young writer who rescues a countess (Ava Gardner) from gambling but gets the disease himself as a compulsive gambler, in The Great Sinner (1949). Unfortunately director Robert Siodmak’s fascinating […]

May, 10

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