Derek Winnert

Anne of Green Gables *** (1934, Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O P Heggie, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 10,479

‘FICTION’S MOST BELOVED HEROINE REALLY LIVES!’ Director George Nichols Jr’s 1934 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama Anne of Green Gables is a lovely adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s children’s classic about an imaginative […]

Oct, 29 · in Reviews

A Man to Remember *** (1938, Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 10,478

Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama A Man to Remember stars Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis and Lee Bowman. It is the flashback-told biography of a selfless town doctor, Doctor John […]

Oct, 29 · in Reviews

The Great Waltz **** (1938, Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 10,477

MGM’s life of Johann Strauss Jr – the splendid 1938 musical biopic film The Great Waltz – gets the lavish production and high-flying European stars. ‘Your beating heart, your pounding pulse will tell you it’s […]

Oct, 29

Three Wise Girls *** (1932, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Walter Byron) – Classic Movie Review 10,476

‘YOU WILL BE SHOCKED by these Clever Coin Chasers.’ Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a […]

Oct, 28

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ** (2005, Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford) – Classic Movie Review 10,475

‘Laugh. Cry. Share the pants.’ Four 17-year-old best girlfriends buy a pair of jeans and agree to share the pants but not wash out the magic, in director Ken Kwapis’s 2005 chick flick tale of […]

Oct, 28

Three Wishes ** (1995, Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy) – Classic Movie Review 10,474

‘If you really believe, magic will find you’. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1995 Three Wishes is a soft-centred, corny feel-good fantasy movie that stars Patrick Swayze as injured vagrant Jack McCloud being invited to move in […]

Oct, 28

I.Q. *** (1994, Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Joseph Maher, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 10,473

Ah, yes, with Albert Einstein as Cupid what could possibly go wrong? Director Fred Schepisi’s 1994 romantic comedy film I.Q. stars Tim Robbins as garage mechanic Ed Walters, who tries to romance mathematician Catherine Boyd, […]

Oct, 28

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