Derek Winnert

David Copperfield ***** (1935, Freddie Bartholomew, W C Fields, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3941

Director George Cukor’s ingratiatingly involving, meticulously painstaking, gloriously handsome 1935 MGM production of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel David Copperfield is a marvellous movie entertainment that boasts a wealth of memorable vintage acting turns. They come […]

Jun, 27 · in Reviews

Transamerica **** (2005, Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan) – Classic Movie Review 3936

Felicity Huffman gives a brave and brilliant performance as Bree, a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), now a teenage runaway hustling […]

Jun, 27 · in Uncategorized

Break of Hearts ** (1935, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 3,938

RKO’s 1935 romantic drama film Break of Hearts is a sudsy, soapy affair, in which budding music composer Constance (Katharine Hepburn) gets into a lather after falling for famed orchestra conductor Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer).  […]

Jun, 27

The Little Minister *** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3939

The young Katharine Hepburn exudes sprightly charisma in director Richard Wallace’s 1934 RKO film of J M Barrie’s fanciful novel and play about a staid 19th-century Scots minister called the Reverend Gavin Dishart (John Beal). He […]

Jun, 26

Spitfire ** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 3,940

Katharine Hepburn is a great actress, of course, but playing an illiterate hillbilly mountain girl is quite beyond her, especially one called Trigger Hicks! Director John Cromwell’s 1934 drama film Spitfire stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Jun, 26

Quality Street *** (1937, Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Fay Bainter, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 3924

Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone star as the 1805 England-set movie’s two lovers, and the quality acting expected of them lights up director George Stevens’s 1937 romance, the second film of J M Barrie’s antique play, following director […]

Jun, 26

Mary of Scotland *** (1936, Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 3925

A valiant Katharine Hepburn heads a game, if largely ill-suited, cast in director John Ford’s intriguing but shaky 1936 film version of Maxwell Anderson’s stage verse drama about the recently widowed Mary Stuart (Hepburn), who returns […]

Jun, 26

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