Derek Winnert

The Phantom of the Opera ***** (1925, Lon Chaney Sr, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry) – Classic Movie Review 75

‘If you love me as you say you do, will you let me go? I promise to be your slave forever,’ Christine tells The Phantom. Lon Chaney Snr stars in his most famous role as […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

Red Dragon ***** (2002, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Movie Review 74

Anthony Hopkins is back to relish his role as Dr Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter in this extremely smart and tasty 2002 horror movie prequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001). The […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

The Red Desert [Il Deserto Rosso] **** (1964, Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti) – Classic Movie Review 73

Monica Vitti gives an extremely fine, distinguished study of a woman on the verge as a dangerously mentally disturbed Italian housewife and mother, who engages in a desperate affair with a visiting engineer (Richard Harris), the […]

Jul, 20

Rebecca ***** (1940, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 72

Based on Daphne du Maurier’s famed novel, Hitchcock’s atypical romantic melodrama from 1940 is the middle film of a trio Hitch adapted from the author’s work between Jamaica Inn and The Birds. It spins the […]

Jul, 20

How Green Was My Valley ***** (1941, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 71

John Ford’s 1941 black-and-white drama film How Green Was My Valley was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five, beating Citizen Kane, Sergeant York and The Maltese Falcon for Best Picture. Director John Ford’s 1941 […]

Jul, 20

National Velvet **** (1944, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Jackie Jenkins) – Classic Film Review 70

‘What’s the meaning of goodness if there isn’t a little badness to overcome?’ Discuss! Ancient now it may be, but the MGM Studio’s fondly remembered 1944 Christmas treat can still be a good-natured rosette winner for […]

Jul, 20

The Big Sleep ***** (1946, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D Brown, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 69

Director Howard Hawks turns Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel The Big Sleep into a brilliantly atmospheric, edge-of-seat suspenseful and exciting film noir masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is everyone’s idea of Chandler’s cynical anti-hero, the smooth, cocksure if […]

Jul, 19

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