Derek Winnert

Mandy [Crash of Silence] ***** (1952, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Phyllis Calvert, Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 2820

Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]

Aug, 16 · in Uncategorized

The Man in the White Suit ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 2819

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]

Aug, 16 · in Uncategorized

Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818

Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]

Aug, 16

Sommersby **** (1993, Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman) – Classic Movie Review 2817

Director Jon Amiel’s classy 1993 mystery romantic drama is a splendidly sumptuous, poignant film. Richard Gere and Jodie Foster give unexpectedly sturdy performances in the kind of movie they’re not usually associated with – the […]

Aug, 15

The Mummy’s Hand *** (1940, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Peggy Moran, Tom Tyler, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 2,816

George Zucco stars as sinister Egyptian mystic Andoheb in the lusty 1940 horror film The Mummy’s Hand, the first sequel to Universal Pictures’ 1932 The Mummy. ‘The tomb of a thousand terrors!’ Director Christy Cabanne’s […]

Aug, 15

Internal Affairs **** (1990, Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Nancy Travis, Richard Bradford, William Baldwin, Annabella Sciorra) – Classic Movie Review 2815

In one of his best movies, Richard Gere blazes back on to the screen in 1990 as a bent cop in this brutal, electrifying neo noir police thriller. It is commandingly directed in America by […]

Aug, 15

The Hills Have Eyes **** (1977, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Michael Berryman) – Classic Movie Review 2814

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1977 horror movie is a great, in-your-face, visceral shocker which established his international reputation. In the credible horror story, a tribe of deformed, inter-bred crazed cannibals pick off people on holiday, whose car […]

Aug, 15

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