Derek Winnert

Doctor in the House **** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, Donald Houston, James Robertson Justice, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 2,691

Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

Doctor at Sea *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham, Joan Sims, Brenda de Banzie, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 2,690

Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow in the 1955 British comedy film Doctor at Sea, with a surprise co-star in French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, who bounces into his life as the pouting Hélène […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells **** (2000, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis) – Classic Movie Review 2689

A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]

Jul, 11

Tin Cup **** (1996, Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin) – Classic Movie Review 2688

Director Ron Shelton’s 1996 sports drama stars a still-in-his-prime Kevin Costner as troubled, ageing golf pro Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy, who gets back into the swing when sassy shrink Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) putts into […]

Jul, 11

Pure **** (2002, Harry Eden, Molly Parker, Keira Knightley, David Wenham, Geraldine McEwan, Karl Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 2687

Harry Eden does a commendably adult job in his first role as Paul, a 10-year-old kid who tries to look after his sickly mother (Molly Parker) and younger brother after his dad’s death. But things […]

Jul, 11

Oliver Twist ** (2005, Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Leanne Rowe, Jamie Foreman, Jeremy Swift) – Classic Movie Review 2686

Let’s Twist again! Or maybe not? Producer-director Roman Polanski comes up with a disappointment in 2005 – a pedestrian, plodding and uninspired movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, but nevertheless with some excellent […]

Jul, 11

Phantom of the Rue Morgue **** (1954, Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 2,684

  Karl Malden stars in the engagingly shambolic 1954 American horror mystery movie Phantom of the Rue Morgue, based on Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Director Roy Del Ruth’s […]

Jul, 10

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