Derek Winnert

The Night of the Party ** (1935, Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter, Jane Baxter, Ernest Thesiger, Malcolm Keen, Viola Keats) – Classic Movie Review 10,461

Director Michael Powell’s 1935 British black and white crime mystery thriller The Night of the Party is an intriguing, lightly amusing and involving if creaky and contrived early Powell film with a good cast and […]

Oct, 26 · in Uncategorized

The Lost Son ** (1999, Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 10,460

Director Chris Menges’s 1999 worrying, exploitative-feeling thriller The Lost Son is another really difficult, depressing movie, quality maybe but hard to like, with excellent French luminary Daniel Auteuil seeming lost and hollow speaking in English […]

Oct, 25 · in Uncategorized

The White Cliffs of Dover *** (1944, Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, Dame May Whitty, C Aubrey Smith, Elizabeth Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,459

Director Clarence Brown’s poignant, well-made but over-sentimental 1944 tearjerker The White Cliffs of Dover stars Irene Dunne as American heroine Lady Susan Dunn Ashwood, who sits idyllically on the white clifftops of Dover with her […]

Oct, 25

Escapement [The Electronic Monster] ** (1958, Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Peter Illing, Carl Jaffe, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 10,458

The intriguing 1958 British sci-fi thriller film Escapement [The Electronic Monster] stars Rod Cameron as an insurance investigator who goes sniffing about after a film star dies in a car crash in the south of […]

Oct, 25

My Brother’s Keeper **½ (1948, Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, David Tomlinson, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 10,457

Director Alfred Roome’s familiar but sturdy 1948 British crime melodrama My Brother’s Keeper is grippingly handled, with a fine performance by George Cole offsetting Jack Warner’s slightly less convincing turn, cast against his usual nice-guy […]

Oct, 24

The Escort [Mauvaise Passe] ** (1999, Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Frances Barber, Ben Whishaw) – Classic Movie Review 10,456

Director Michel Blanc’s 1999 France UK film The Escort [Mauvaise Passe] stars Daniel Auteuil as a poverty-stricken French writer called Pierre, who becomes a male escort in London, where he finds his new lifestyle more appealing […]

Oct, 24

My Brother Tom *** (2001, Jenna Harrison, Ben Whishaw, Honeysuckle Weeks) – Classic Movie Review 10,455

Director Dom Rotheroe’s 2001 film My Brother Tom stars Jenna Harrison and Ben Whishaw. Fine acting smoothes over some of the bumps in the path of this tricky drama about a middle-class teenage girl, Jessica […]

Oct, 24

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