Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Ever in My Heart **** (1933, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 9652

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 romantic drama Ever in My Heart finds Barbara Stanwyck on top tragic form as Mary Archer, who marries foreign – German! – academic Hugo Wilbrandt (Otto Kruger) pre-World War One. Hugo […]

Apr, 19 · in Reviews

The Cariboo Trail *** (1950, Randolph Scott, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Bill Williams, Karin Booth, Victor Jory) Classic Movie Review 9651

‘Between majestic mountains and frozen waste lay The Cariboo Trail… gateway to gold, greed and glory!’ Director Edwin L Marin 1950 film The Cariboo Trail is a good-looking gold-mining Western, set in Canada’s British Columbia, […]

Apr, 19 · in Reviews

A Caribbean Mystery *** (1983, Helen Hayes, Barnard Hughes, Jameson Parker) – Classic Movie Review 9650

Director Robert Michael Lewis’s 1983 TV movie A Caribbean Mystery stars Helen Hayes, who successfully takes on the part of Miss Jane Marple at the age of 83 for an excellent Agatha Christie mystery. Miss […]

Apr, 18

Decadence ** (1994, Joan Collins, Steven Berkoff, Christopher Biggins, Michael Winner, Marc Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 9649

The 1994 comedy drama Decadence is, as the poster says, ‘degenerate and disgusting’, but alas perhaps it is not also ‘deliciously funny’ as advertised, though it does have a certain oddball fascination, and its two […]

Apr, 18

Quest for Love *** (1971, Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9648

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1971 Quest for Love tells a fascinating sci-fi yarn based on John (The Midwich Cuckoos) Wyndham’s 1954 short story Random Quest, with a screenplay by Terence Feely. Tom Bell stars as Colin […]

Apr, 18

Century ** (1993, Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 9647

Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff ambitiously tries to dig out the roots of the 20th century in the year 1899 (race, religion, feminism) in his 1993 drama film Century, in which young doctor Paul Reisner (Clive Owen) […]

Apr, 18

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side **** (1992, Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman) – Classic Movie Review 9,646

Alas, all good things have to come to an end. The splendid Joan Hickson takes on her 12th and final case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, in the 1992 TV mystery film The Mirror Crack’d […]

Apr, 17

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