Derek Winnert

Family Plot **** (1976, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane) – Classic Movie Review 464

Alfred Hitchcock’s 53rd and final film Family Plot, made in 1976, is a deliciously playful, witty farewell. Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern star as a phoney psychic and her cab driver boyfriend who encounter serial kidnappers […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Topaz **** (1969, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, John Forsythe, Philippe Noiret, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 463

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 spy thriller Topaz is one of his least interesting films, despite being based Leon Uris’s top bestselling novel. But it remains entirely watchable thanks some fine performances and a few typical Hitchcock […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Young and Innocent [The Girl Was Young] **** (1937, Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, Basil Radford, George Curzon) – Classic Movie Review 462

In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]

Dec, 01

My Beautiful Laundrette **** (1985, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 461

Director Stephen Frears’s 1985 heart-warmer raises the spirits. It stars future double-Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who first captured the attention on screen here as Johnny, a gay, reformed racist punk. The Beautiful Laundrette of the title is […]

Nov, 30

Rich and Strange ** (1931, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont) – Classic Movie Review 460

This 1931 Alfred Hitchcock early sound film is surprisingly obvious, thin and conservative-minded, so it is a bit of a bad surprise from this director. It plays like a Victorian melodrama with a moral and […]

Nov, 30

The Mountain Eagle (1926, Bernhard Goetzke, Nita Naldi, Malcolm Keen) – Classic Movie Review 459

Alfred Hitchcock’s second film from 1926 enjoys unenviable status as one of silent cinema’s most famous missing movies and one of the most searched-for films in history. Indeed, it’s infamous now as the only Hitchcock […]

Nov, 30

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s – Film Review

Matthew Miele’s extravagantly luxurious documentary is the last word on the Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman, looking behind the scenes and gathering a huge number of interviews from an incredible array of fashion designers, style icons and celebrities. Everybody […]

Nov, 30

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