Derek Winnert

Juno and the Paycock *** (1929, Edward Chapman, Sara Allgood, Maire O’Neill, Kathleen O’Regan, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 2290

Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]

Mar, 21 · in Reviews

Champagne *** (1928, Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Jean Bradin) – Classic Movie Review 2289

Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 comedy is a poorly received but interesting silent movie in which Betty Balfour stars as spoilt rich girl who leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father’s champagne […]

Mar, 21 · in Reviews

The Ring **** (1927, Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Harry Terry, Gordon Harker) – Classic Movie Review 2288

Director Alfred Hitchcock wrote the original story for this richly enjoyable, flavoursome, unfairly neglected 1927 silent movie, in which Carl Brisson plays ‘One-Round’ Jack Sander, a young fairground-booth fighter who marries the cashier Nellie (Lillian […]

Mar, 20

Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

John Wick **** (2014, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane) – Classic Movie Review 2,286

Keanu Reeves stars in the 2014 action thriller film as the ex-hitman John Wick, who comes out of retirement to fight a one-man war against the gangsters who steal his car and kill his dog, […]

Mar, 20

Downhill *** (1927, Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel) – Classic Movie Review 2286

Welsh actor and composer Ivor Novello stars as English boarding schoolboy Roddy Berwick, who is unjustly condemned for a sexual indiscretion after he takes the blame for a friend, in director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film […]

Mar, 20

Wild Card *** (2015, Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Stanley Tucci) – Movie Review

Jason Statham stars as ultra-tough and uber-resourceful Las Vegas bodyguard Nick Wild in a gritty and intriguing remake of the Burt Reynolds crime thriller Heat (1986). Statham’s Wild gets a weird thing going with rich young entrepreneur Cyrus Kinnick (Michael […]

Mar, 20

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