Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Horror Hospital ** (1973, Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 9740

Robin Askwith stars in Horror Hospital (1973) as Sixties pop songwriter Jason Jones, who plans a break at a country retreat, a pseudo-health farm called Brittlehurst Manor. On the train there he meets Judy Peters […]

May, 09 · in Reviews

Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers **½ (1977, Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Warren Mitchell, John le Mesurier, Edward Woodward, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 9739

Leslie Thomas scripts from his own novel, but is the now iconic Seventies cast that is the making of the 1977 British army sex comedy Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers. Director Norman Cohen’s 1977 British army […]

May, 09 · in Reviews

In the Cool of the Day ** (1963, Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 9738

Peter Finch and Jane Fonda star as a married publisher and a young married woman who have an illicit affair, in MGM’s coolly received 1963 romantic drama In the Cool of the Day. ‘WHY DID […]

May, 09

In the Deep Woods ** (1992, Rosanna Arquette, Anthony Perkins, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 9737

Director Charles Correll’s 1992 TV movie In the Deep Woods is an eerie if rather unimaginative and tatty psycho-thriller, with a screenplay by Robert Nathan and Robert Rosenblum based on Nicholas Conde’s novel. It has […]

May, 09

In the Doghouse ** (1961, Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley) – Classic Movie Review 9736

Director Darcy Conyers’s 1961 comedy In the Doghouse has us in mild stitches with James Herriot-type adventures, this time adapted from the novel It’s a Vet’s Life by Alex Duncan, in a screenplay by the […]

May, 09

Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] *** (1952, Leslie Dwyer, Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth, Sandra Dorne, Ronald Adam, Joan Hickson, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 9,735

The 1952 British drama film Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] is a decently crafted, enjoyable film of Stanley Houghton’s famed 1912 play about an independently minded English north country mill girl (Lisa Daniely) enjoying a holiday […]

May, 09

The Very Thought of You ** (1944, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9,734

Director Delmer Daves’s tepid but kindly 1944 wartime romantic drama film The Very Thought of You stars Dennis Morgan as a US Army sergeant, Sgt David ‘Dave’ Stewart in World War Two. Dave and his […]

May, 08

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