Derek Winnert

The Impostor [Strange Confession] *** (1944 Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck, Ralph Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 11,766

Director Julien Duvivier’s 1944 Universal Pictures American black and white war drama film The Impostor [Strange Confession] stars Jean Gabin as a condemned murderer who escapes when the Nazis bomb his French jail. He takes […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

Immortal Sergeant ** (1943, Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 11,765

Director John M Stahl’s 1943 20th Century Fox. American black and white war film Immortal Sergeant stars Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara and Thomas Mitchell. Fonda is cast as a Canadian wartime soldier, Corporal Colin Spence, […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: The top 30+ holiday movie memories

Christmas movies trigger a load of feelings and memories, some magical, some less so. Here’s the top Christmas crackers movie list. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (1): Dudley Moore gives an appealing turn […]

Dec, 04

Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] *** (2005, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Alex Ferns, Daniel Brühl) – Classic Movie Review 11,764

‘Without an enemy there can be no war.’ Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] (2005) is the somewhat fictionalised, and very sentimental version of the story of the First World War Christmas ceasefire in the trenches, where […]

Dec, 03

The Happy Family ** (1952, Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 11,763

Director Muriel Box’s 1952 British comedy The Happy Family [Mr Lord Says No] Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne and George Cole, and a glorious old Brit cast. Producer-writer Sydney Box left Rank to go independent […]

Dec, 03

Happy Ever After [Tonight’s the Night] **** (1954, David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, A E Matthews, Michael Shepley, George Cole, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 11,762

The 1954 Technicolor comedy Happy Ever After finds a vintage British cast hamming it up as devious Irish country bumpkins who plot to get permanently rid of the nasty new local landowner (David Niven).  Director […]

Dec, 02

The Happy Hooker ** (1975, Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell, Nicholas Pryor, Elizabeth Wilson, Tom Poston, Conrad Janis, Mason Adams, Richard Lynch, George Dzundza, Vincent Schiavelli) – Classic Movie Review 11,761

Director Nicholas Sgarro’s 1975 American biographical comedy film The Happy Hooker is cleaned up as a vehicle for surprise choice Redgrave, who is fun but slumming as the Dutch secretary turned classy hooker Xaviera Hollander, but it […]

Dec, 02

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