Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Flemish Farm ** (1943, Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter, Philip Friend) – Classic Movie Review 11,574

Director Jeffrey Dell’s 1943 British film The Flemish Farm is an honourable and conscientious if not particularly distinguished morale-boosting World War Two war drama, apparently based on fact. A well known, respected film in its […]

Sep, 14 · in Uncategorized

Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ** (1934, Pauline Lord, W C Fields, ZaSu Pitts, Evelyn Venable) – Classic Movie Review 11,573

Director Norman Taurog’s humorous 1934 Paramount Pictures comedy-drama film Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is worth watching for the performers and the laughs, even if the antique emotional manipulation seems too crude today. W […]

Sep, 14 · in Uncategorized

Mrs Pollifax-Spy * (1971, Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold Gould, Albert Paulsen, John Beck, Dana Elcar) – Classic Movie Review 11,572

‘Before she joined the CIA, Mrs Pollifax thought Red China was a set of dishes.’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s 1971 spy comedy Mrs Pollifax-Spy stars Rosalind Russell as the title character, and finds the always […]

Sep, 13

Mrs Parkington ** (1944, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 11,571

MGM’s carefully made, well acted 1944 black and white drama film Mrs Parkington stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as husband and wife for the fourth time. Director Tay Garnett’s 1944 MGM black and white […]

Sep, 13

Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle *** (1994, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Andrew McCarthy, Wallace Shawn) – Classic Movie Review 11,570

Jennifer Jason Leigh is very effective as the mannered acid wit and writer Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph’s posh and good-looking but gossipy and suitably bitchy 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle, from a […]

Sep, 12

After Office Hours *** (1935, Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 11,569

Robert Z Leonard directs the satisfyingly complicated 1935 MGM crime thriller After Office Hours. Clark Gable and Constance Bennett carry a sharply penned piece from the writer of Citizen Kane. King of Hollywood Clark Gable […]

Sep, 12

Choose Me **** (1984, Geneviève Bujold, Lesley Ann Warren, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 11,568

Inventive writer-director-with-a-difference Alan Rudolph follows his Welcome to LA and Remember My Name with the deliciously quirky and perceptive 1984 adult comedy-drama film Choose Me about the relationships between repressed radio chat show sex therapist Nancy […]

Sep, 12

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