Derek Winnert

The Private Life of Henry VIII ***** (1933, Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 2495

Producer-director Alexander Korda’s 1933 triumph The Private Life of Henry VIII was the first British movie to enjoy worldwide success. It was an even sweeter triumph because at the time period films were considered to […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

The Baby and the Battleship ** (1956, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, André Morell, Bryan Forbes, Michael Hordern, Lisa Gastoni, Ernest Clark) – Classic Movie Review 2,493

The 1956 British colour comedy film The Baby and the Battleship is a cheery and fast-moving Fifties caper about a boatload of jovial Royal Navy sailors who have shore leave in Naples before being left […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

Wendigo ** (2001, Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 2492

Writer-director Larry Fessenden’s 2001 horror movie is in the interesting, half-successful category, with a creepy atmosphere and some aspects of it working suspensefully and grippingly along the way to fizzling out in a weak conclusion. A […]

May, 17

The Wild One **** (1953, Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 2491

Marlon Brando stars as the quintessential wild boy in director Laslo Benedek’s legendary, once infamous 1953 biker teenage rebellion melodrama, which was banned in Britain until 1967. As a biker exploitation movie, it influenced the genre in the […]

May, 16

The Wild Women of Wongo ** (1958, Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Candé Gerrard) – Classic Movie Review 2490

‘Savage! Primitive! Untamed!’ Director James L Wolcott’s infamous low-budget 1958 American adventure film The Wild Women of Wongo is a rare so-bad-it’s-good treat. With its stereotypical portrayals of fictional tropical islanders, it is absolutely appallingly […]

May, 16

The Wind ***** (1928, Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle) – Classic Movie Review 2489

Swedish director Victor Sjöström’s [Seastrom] most famous and finest work, based on the novel by Dorothy Scarborough, is now recognised and hailed as one of the all-time great silent movies. However time is on its side: […]

May, 16

Wild Wild West ** (1999, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Selma Hayek) – Classic Movie Review 2488

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1999 comedy Western big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series is carelessly handled and drossily scripted. It must have been a near thing, very touch and go, but Will Smith’s charisma and […]

May, 16

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