Derek Winnert

Another Dawn ** (1937, Errol Flynn, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Mary Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 4756

Director William Dieterle’s 1937 romantic melodrama film was an old-fashioned antique even when it was new. Its mix of adventure plus romance in the British Empire is a soap-opera-style time-filler set in an imperial African […]

Dec, 08 · in Uncategorized

Always Together *** (1947, Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 4775

Director Frederick de Cordova’s good-natured 1947 Warner Bros movie features Cecil Kellaway as millionaire Turner, an old guy on his deathbed, leaves a million dollars to a starstruck young woman, Jane Barker (Joyce Reynolds), who […]

Dec, 08 · in Uncategorized

Uncertain Glory ** (1944, Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Douglass Dumbrille, Faye Emerson, Dennis Hoey) – Classic Movie Review 4755

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1944 spirit-raising (i e wartime propaganda) romantic adventure drama Uncertain Glory stars Errol Flynn as Jean Picard, a womanising French criminal who flees the guillotine during an air raid in World War Two […]

Dec, 08

The Lovers *** (1973, Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, Joan Scott, Susan Littler) – Classic Movie Review 4774

Director Herbert Wise’s pleasing 1973 British feature film version of the popular and much-loved TV comedy series created by Jack Rosenthal in 1970 (running till 1971) reunites the delightful stars Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox […]

Dec, 08

Rising Damp **½ (1980, Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Don Warrington, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Strauli) – Classic Movie Review 4773

Happily, Leonard Rossiter gleefully re-creates his classic TV performance as the miserly, mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby in director Joe McGrath’s pleasant and amusing 1980 cinema movie version of the hit British TV […]

Dec, 08

Porridge [Doing Time] ***½ (1979, Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Peter Vaughan, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Sam Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4772

Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s funny 1979 film prison comedy Porridge [Doing Time] is a most entertaining, above-par transfer of the much-loved Seventies BBC TV sitcom about the inmates and warders of HM Slade Prison in […]

Dec, 07

Office Christmas Party *** (2016, Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T J Miller, Jennifer Aniston, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Rob Corddry, Courtney B Vance) – Movie Review

Christmas is a time for peace on earth, goodwill to mankind, going to the movies – and of course having ghastly office parties. Well, that’s that sorted out and settled then! If you haven’t got […]

Dec, 07

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