Derek Winnert

The Wicked Lady **** (1945, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 1335

The 1945 British costume melodrama film The Wicked Lady stars Margaret Lockwood as a nobleman’s wife who becomes a highwayman for the excitement. It enjoyed incredible popularity when 18,400,000 patrons paid to see it. Writer-director […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

The Farmer’s Wife *** (1928, Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill) – Classic Movie Review 1,334

Alfred Hitchcock’s seventh movie The Farmer’s Wife is this modestly engaging 1928 silent romantic comedy film of the Eden Phillpotts hit stage play about grumpy widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who seeks a new […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

The Farmer’s Daughter **** (1947, Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 1333

Director H C Potter’s 1947 appealing vintage comedy stars the largely forgotten Loretta Young, who beat the odds and won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as the Swedish farmer’s daughter Katrin Holstrom, who […]

Jun, 18

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1,332

Bette Davis stars in the 1945 drama film The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher who decides to set up a school to teach basic education in a Welsh coal […]

Jun, 17

Possessed **** (1947, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 1331

The 1947 film noir movie Possessed is a riveting melodrama and portrait of crazy passion, starring the actress who best personified mental distress on screen – Joan Crawford, later saying it was the most difficult […]

Jun, 17

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil **½ (1997, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 1330

Director Clint Eastwood’s 1997 thriller stars Kevin Spacey, who impresses mightily as Jim Williams, an antiques dealer who shoots dead his employee Billy Hanson (Jude Law) and is on trial for murder. Williams is a self-made millionaire, art collector, […]

Jun, 15

Beyond the Sea **** (2004, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Greta Scacchi) Classic Movie Review 1329

Writer-director Kevin Spacey’s 2004 movie is his second as director, following 1996’s Albino Alligator. They couldn’t be more different films. That one was a set-bound, ensemble thriller with no appearance by the star. This one is […]

Jun, 15

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