Derek Winnert

Million Dollar Legs **** (1932, W C Fields, Jack Oakie, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Ben Turpin) – Classic Movie Review 10,451

‘Klopstokia… a far away country – Chief Exports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Imports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Inhabitants… Goats and Nuts.’ Director Edward F Cline’s 1932 Million Dollar Legs stars the irrepressible and […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Milou in May [Milou en Mai] **** (1990, Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy) – Classic Movie Review 10,450

The delightful 1990 French sophisticated comedy of manners and political satire Milou in May [Milou en Mai] [May Fools] finds director Louis Malle in mellow Chekovian mood as he delivers a gently funny, poignant country […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

A Mind to Murder ** (1995, Roy Marsden, Frank Finlay, Jerome Flynn, Robert Pugh, George Costigan, Robert East, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 10,449

Roy Marsden’s portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia Television’s P D James detective series spans 15 years from Death of an Expert Witness (1983) to A Certain Justice (1998). The series began as adaptations in […]

Oct, 22

Railroaded! *** (1947, John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph) – Classic Movie Review 10,448

Director Anthony Mann’s neat and well-plotted 1947 low-budget crime thriller Railroaded! stars John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, and Jane Randolph. It is an incisive, dour, dark-toned little 40s film-noir mobster tale with John Ireland […]

Oct, 22

The Raid *** (1954, Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,447

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]

Oct, 22

Radio On *** (1979, David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff) – Classic Movie Review 10,446

The 1979 music mystery drama Radio On is a chilly but clever road movie, in which a radio station disc jockey called Robert (played by David Beames) drives from London to Bristol to investigate his […]

Oct, 22

Unnatural Causes *** (1993, Roy Marsden, Simon Chandler, Kenneth Colley, Mel Martin, Bill Nighy, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 10,445

The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]

Oct, 21

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