Derek Winnert

The Root of All Evil * (1947, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, John McCallum) – Classic Movie Review 11,859

Writer-director Brock Williams’s 1947 Gainsborough Pictures studios drama The Root of All Evil stars Phyllis Calvert, who looks unhappy, miscast in a British Joan Crawford-style role as Jeckie Farnish, getting up to dirty business to […]

Jan, 19 · in Reviews

Hungry Hill ** (1947, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Michael Denison, Dermot Walsh, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Siobhan McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 11,858

Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1947 British film Hungry Hill [The Stranger Between] is based on the 1943 bestseller novel by Daphne du Maurier, and stars Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Michael Denison, Dermot Walsh, Jean […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

Daybreak ** (1948, Ann Todd, Eric Portman, Maxwell Reed) – Classic Movie Review 11,857

Director Compton Bennett’s 1948 thriller Daybreak is based on the play Grim Fairy Tale by Monckton Hoffe, and stars Ann Todd, Eric Portman and Maxwell Reed. Daybreak is a bizarre British film noir with Portman […]

Jan, 18

Rosalie **** (1937, Eleanor Powell, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Ilona Massey, Reginald Owen, Edna May Oliver, Virginia Grey, George Zucco, Jerry Colonna, Billy Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 11,856

Eleanor Powell dances, Nelson Eddy sings and Frank Morgan takes care of the comedy in the lavish 1937 MGM musical Rosalie. Director W S Van Dyke’s 1937 film Rosalie is an incredibly lavish and spectacular […]

Jan, 17

Babycakes ** (1989, Ricki Lake, Craig Sheffer) – Classic Movie Review 11,855

Director Paul Schneider’s 1989 comedy Babycakes is an entirely unnecessary but pleasantly cast and tasty remake for American TV of Percy Adlon’s 1985 German film Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby], providing a big fat part for Ricki Lake […]

Jan, 17

Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby] *** (1985, Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger, Manuela Denz, Will Spindler) – Classic Movie Review 11,854

Marianne Sägebrecht and Eisi Gulp star in writer-director Percy Adlon’s delightfully quirky and richly enjoyable 1985 German comedy film Zuckerbaby (English title Sugarbaby). It is exuberant, sad and colourful, and attractively played by its two […]

Jan, 17

Céleste *** (1980, Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba) – Classic Movie Review 11,853

Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German film Céleste tells the story of the final years of the French gay writer Marcel Proust (Jürgen Arndt) through the eyes of his housekeeper.  Writer-director Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German […]

Jan, 17

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