Derek Winnert

Pauline & Paulette **** (2001, Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans ) – Classic Movie Review 4494

Co-writer/ director Lieven Debrauwer’s 2001 film is a heartrending, life-affirming emotional comedy drama focusing on two Dutch sisters in a family of four sisters. In the lead roles, Dora van der Groen (as the 66-year-old Pauline […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

Pauline at the Beach [Pauline à la Plage] **** (1983, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasie, Pascal Greggory, Féodore Atkine, Simon de la Brosse) – Classic Movie Review 4493

In the third of French writer-director Eric Rohmer‘s series of films Comedies and Proverbs, Parisians talk up a storm about manners and morals on a Normandy beach in a story about two cousins (Amanda Langlet […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

Framed ***½ (1947, Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley) – Classic Movie Review 4,492

The effective 1947 film noir crime thriller stars Janis Carter as a sultry femme fatale who schemes with a married man (Barry Sullivan) to commit the perfect robbery from his bank and set up a fall guy […]

Oct, 19

The Thirty-Nine Steps **** (1978, Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter, David Warner, George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Timothy West) – Classic Movie Review 4,491

Director Don Sharp’s extremely entertaining 1978 third film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps finds its purpose in that it is finally a movie that is faithful to the book and its pre-First World […]

Oct, 19

The 39 Steps *** (1959, Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, James Hayter, Barry Jones, Faith Brook, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 4,490

Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel The 39 Steps. Taina […]

Oct, 19

Paula *** (1952, Loretta Young, Tommy Rettig, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 4489

Loretta Young – the Best Actress Oscar winner for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) – stars as Paula Rogers in director Rudolph Maté’s well-crafted, if predictable 1952 weepie. In the drama, Paula tries to teach a young lad (Tommy Rettig) […]

Oct, 19

Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] * (1946, Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni, Jack Raine, Beatrice Varley) – Classic Movie Review 4,488

John Argyle’s 1946 British mystery thriller Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] gets the Francis Durbridge Paul Temple film series off to a shaky start. Anthony Hulme and Joy Shelton star as novelist Paul […]

Oct, 18

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