Derek Winnert

Fury ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellism Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 2190

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s outstanding 1936 American drama film Fury finds Spencer Tracy on his most blistering form in this forceful, continuingly relevant attack on small-town mob violence. Lang’s American début provided an instant movie classic. He had […]

Feb, 18 · in Reviews

While the City Sleeps **** (1956, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,184

Fritz Lang’s fine 1956 film noir While the City Sleeps is inspired by the Chicago Lipstick Killer, and stars Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders and Vincent Price. The great director Fritz Lang’s bizarrely plotted […]

Feb, 18 · in Reviews

Relative Values ***½ (2000, Julie Andrews, Edward Atterton, William Baldwin, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Colin Firth, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 2186

Director Eric Styles’s crisp and amusing 2000 movie version of the vintage play by Noël Coward is a small civilised pleasure. Paul Rattigan and Michael Walker adapt the Master’s work, keeping his wit intact. It […]

Feb, 18

In the Bleak Midwinter **** (1995, Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 2185

Writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s 1995 movie is a beautifully realised, funny, perceptive comedy drama look at the British thespian game. In Branagh’s story, a resting, out of work actor called Joe Harper (Michael Maloney) battles to stage a […]

Feb, 18

Camelot ***½ (1967, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 2180

South Pacific and Paint Your Wagon director Joshua Logan turns the pleasantly tuneful and rather splendid Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) musical about life and loves at the court of King Arthur […]

Feb, 17

Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179

Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]

Feb, 17

Gigi **** (1958, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 2178

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 musical Gigi, with exactly the right stars in Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, was a huge hit and a surprise sensation at the Academy Awards. It is […]

Feb, 16

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