Derek Winnert

We’ll Meet Again ** (1943, Vera Lynn, Geraldo, Patricia Roc) – Classic Movie Review 9931

Director Philip Brandon’s 1943 morale-boosting musical We’ll Meet Again provides a rare film role for British wartime singing sensation Vera Lynn, using the title of her most famous song. It is her film debut in […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

Betrayal **** (1983, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge) – Classic Movie Review 9930

Director David Hugh Jones’s 1983 drama Betrayal is incisively acted by a team who just couldn’t be better – Jeremy Irons as the romancing literary agent Jerry, Ben Kingsley as the cuckolded husband Robert and […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

Juggernaut **** (1974, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Clifton James) – Classic Movie Review 9929

Director Richard Lester’s ultra-tense, impressively efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable 1974 Seventies action adventure Juggernaut stars Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, and Clifton James. Sharif […]

Jun, 18

A Place to Go *** (1963, Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Bernard Lee, Doris Hare, John Slater) – Classic Movie Review 9928

Director Basil Dearden’s 1963 crime drama A Place to Go is a good and gritty account of the seamy side of East London’s petty-crime underworld, with Sixties pop star Mike Sarne (‘Come Outside’) as the […]

Jun, 18

Lady by Choice *** (1934, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 9927

Incomparable 1930s players Carole Lombard and May Robson delight in director David Burton’s bubbly 1934 vintage comedy Lady by Choice about a fame-hungry fan-dancer, Alabam Lee (Lombard), who takes in a mean, drunken, down-at-heel old […]

Jun, 18

The Medusa Touch ** (1978, Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura) – Classic Movie Review 9926

Director Jack Gold’s 1978 sci-fi psychological horror thriller The Medusa Touch stars a haunted-looking Richard Burton as John Morlar, a troubled author with strange telekinetic powers who can will people’s deaths, create catastrophe and cause […]

Jun, 17

Scenes from a Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap] ***** (1974, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 9925

Writer/ director Ingmar Bergman draws on his personal experiences for his 1974 feature Scenes from a Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap], the ideally condensed theatrical version of his triumphant six-part 1973 Swedish Television miniseries. Liv […]

Jun, 17

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