Derek Winnert

Destination Tokyo *** (1943, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale Jr, Tom Tully, Warner Anderson, John Forsythe, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson) – Classic Movie Review 4,312

You don’t expect to find Cary Grant in heroic mode, at the helm of a submarine, in a World War Two action movie. But here he is in the exciting, persuasive 1943 wartime propaganda film […]

Sep, 07 · in Uncategorized

The 9th Life of Louis Drax ***½ (2016, Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Aaron Paul, Barbara Hershey, Oliver Platt) – Movie Review

Jamie Dornan stars as Dr Allan Pascal, who is drawn into the mystery of his coma patient, accident-prone nine-year-old Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth), who has suffered a lifetime of curious mishaps culminating in his near-fatal fall […]

Sep, 07 · in Uncategorized

An Alligator Named Daisy **½ (1955, Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Holloway, Stephen Boyd, Roland Culver, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 4311

Director J Lee Thompson’s utterly daft, not very witty 1955 British Technicolor comedy An Alligator Named Daisy boasts a pleasant atmosphere and some moderate, simple guffaws, not least through the charming cast’s astonishing ability to […]

Sep, 06

Three Men in a Boat **½ (1956, Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Robertson Hare, Jill Ireland, Lisa Gastoni, Martita Hunt, Adrienne Corri, A E Matthews, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4310

All should be plain sailing with director Ken Annakin’s 1956 British screen version of Jerome K Jerome’s misadventures of three less than eminent Victorians, Harris, George and Jimmy (Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey and David Tomlinson), […]

Sep, 06

The Clay Pigeon **** (1949, Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, Richard Loo, Frank Fenton, Martha Hyer, Frank Wilcox) – Classic Movie Review 4309

Director Richard Fleischer’s neat and short (63 minutes) 1949 black and white film noir movie The Clay Pigeon is one of those vintage Forties thrillers with the familiar but usually effective set-up of an amnesiac […]

Sep, 05

Cleo from 5 to 7 [Cléo de 5 à 7] **** (1962, Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, José-Luis Villalonga) – Classic Movie Review 4308

One of the key French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movies of the early Sixties, writer-director Agnés Varda’s essential 1962 film drama Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 [Cléo de 5 à 7] – or portrait […]

Sep, 05

Le Bonheur [Happiness] **** (1965, Jean-Claude Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Claire Drouot) – Classic Movie Review 4307

Agnès Varda’s 1965 French film Le Bonheur [Happiness] tells the story of a happy carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) with a wife (Claire Drouot) and a mistress (Marie-France Boyer), both of whom he loves. Writer-director Agnès Varda’s […]

Sep, 05

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