Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Yellow Balloon **** (1953, Andrew Ray, Kenneth More, William Sylvester, Kathleen Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 12,117

The Yellow Balloon (1953) was one of the first films to be passed with an X certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, which judged the chase through the London Underground station too frightening […]

May, 13 · in Reviews

Alf’s Baby [Her Three Bachelors] ** (1953, Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 12,116

Three men and a little lady. Jerry Desmonde and Pauline Stroud get rare star roles in the 1953 British comedy film Alf’s Baby [Her Three Bachelors]. Three bachelors who run a shop are left raising […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

Highway 301 **** (1950, Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, Robert Webber, Wally Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 12,115

‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]

May, 11

His Brother’s Wife [Lady of the Tropics] *** (1936, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge) – Classic Movie Review 12,114

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1936 MGM American romantic comedy drama film His Brother’s Wife [Lady of the Tropics] is based on a story by George Auerbach, and pairs Barbara Stanwyck with Robert Taylor. […]

May, 11

Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] ***** (1952, Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé, Romolo Bartolomeo, Lea Padovani, Massimo Girotti) – Classic Movie Review 12,113

The 1952 Italian film Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] is perhaps Giuseppe De Santis’s finest picture, a Neorealist look at postwar unemployment in an urban setting, entirely free from the banal melodrama and sex […]

May, 11

His and Hers * (1961, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde White, Nicole Maurey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Joan Hickson, Oliver Reed, Francesca Annis) – Classic Movie Review 12,112

The 1961 British comedy film His and Hers is just about worth the effort for glimpses of the vintage cast: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde White, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Joan Hickson, Oliver […]

May, 10

His Double Life *** (1933, Roland Young, Lillian Gish, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare) – Classic Movie Review 12,111

‘HE’S NOT HIMSELF!… Even his bride thinks he’s two other fellows…!’ Director Arthur Hopkins’s 1933 comedy-drama film His Double Life stars Roland Young and Lillian Gish, along with Montagu Love and Lumsden Hare. Arnold Bennett’s […]

May, 10

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