Derek Winnert

Remember Last Night? **** (1936, Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings, Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Reginald Denny) – Classic Movie Review 4515

The morning after the night before, down-to-earth sleuth Danny Harrison (Edward Arnold) investigates a murder at a party involving hard-drinking upper-class twits, all of whom were so pie-eyed that they can’t remember last night at all, […]

Oct, 23 · in Reviews

Rembrandt **** (1936, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 4514

Producer-director Alexander Korda’s splendid 1936 historical biopic focuses on Charles Laughton’s moving depiction of an artist declining into old age and poverty – in this case the 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 […]

Oct, 23 · in Reviews

Once More, with Feeling! ** (1960, Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall, Gregory Ratoff, Geoffrey Toone, Maxwell Shaw, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 4513

Director Stanley Donen’s 1960 British comedy proved Kay Kendall’s last film, made while, unknown to her, she was suffering from terminal leukaemia, and it is a huge tribute to her that it remains attractive solely […]

Oct, 23

The Constant Husband [Marriage a la Mode] *** (1955, Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey, George Cole, Raymond Huntley, Jill Adams, Valerie French) – Classic Movie Review 4512

That sterling high-comedy actor Rex Harrison was lured back from Hollywood to British movies again with co-producer/ co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s daft piece of fluff 1955 comedy film, with a delightful cast of players, most […]

Oct, 23

The Reluctant Debutante ***½ (1958, Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Angela Lansbury, Peter Myers, Diane Clare) – Classic Movie Review 4,511

Vincente Minnelli’s funny 1958 film The Reluctant Debutante stars Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall as a couple who decide to launch their reluctant debutante daughter (Sandra Dee) into posh society. It is a […]

Oct, 23

What a Girl Wants * (2003, Colin Firth, Amanda Bynes, Oliver James, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, Jonathan Pryce, Sylvia Syms) – Classic Movie Review 4510

Amanda Bynes stars as US teen Daphne who falls for young Brit hunk Ian (Oliver James) when she comes to England to find her long-lost dad, wealthy British politician lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth). He does not […]

Oct, 23

Whale Rider ***½ (2003, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4509

Writer-director Niko Caro’s compelling 2003 New Zealand story of Maori teenage girl Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes)’s fight for acceptance by her tribal chief grandfather as a suitable future leader of the tribe makes for a gripping […]

Oct, 23

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