Derek Winnert

The Kiss **** (1929, Greta Garbo, Lew Ayres, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf) – Classic Movie Review 1838

The 1929 film The Kiss is the MGM studio’s – and Greta Garbo’s – last silent movie, a French-set romantic yarn about a jealous ageing businessman husband who gets bumped off – but by whom? […]

Nov, 12 · in Reviews

Kismet *** (1955, Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone) – Classic Movie Review 1837

  Director Vicente Minnelli’s 1955 MGM musical version of the hit show, based on the old Edward Knoblock (non-musical play Kismet and Aleksandr Borodin’s music, is kitsch and luridly colourful in odd Eastmancolor. Howard Keel […]

Nov, 12 · in Reviews

Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] ***½ (1941, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1836

Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]

Nov, 12

The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835

Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]

Nov, 12

Set Fire to the Stars **** (2014, Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones, Kelly Reilly) – Movie Review

Elijah Wood stars as aspiring American poet John M Brinnin, who has his orderly world shaken up in 1950s New York when he embarks on a week-long retreat in a remote cabin to save his arrogant, hell-raising famous Welsh […]

Nov, 12

Nanny McPhee **** (2005, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton) – Classic Movie Review 1834

Emma Thompson and Colin Firth star in director Kirk Jones’s delightful, magical 2005 family fantasy comedy film Nanny McPhee, with expert performances and a super wicked sense of humour. Thompson stars as a Mary Poppins-style […]

Nov, 12

A Night to Remember **** (1958, Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Honor Blackman, Robert Ayres) – Classic Movie Review 1,833

Kenneth More stars in an ideal, admirable, iconic star turn as the heroic crewman Second Officer Herbert Lightoller in the Golden Globe winning 1958 British historical disaster film A Night to Remember. Director Roy Ward […]

Nov, 12

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